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Position:Home>Genealogy> What do this last names mean?Question:Kujawski Fulmer Barnes Werner Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Kujawski Fulmer Barnes Werner Kujawski Polish: regional name for someone from Kujawy (see Kujawa) or from a village called Kujawy, for example in Sielce voivodeship. Dictionary of American Family Fulmer English: habitational name from Fulmer in Buckinghamshire or Fowlmere in Cambridgeshire, so named from Old English fugol ‘bird’ + mere ‘lake’. German: variant of Volkmar. Barnes English: topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who lived by or worked at a barn or barns, from Middle English barn ‘barn’, ‘granary’. In some cases, it may be a habitational name from Barnes (on the Surrey bank of the Thames in London), which was named in Old English with this word. English: name borne by the son or servant of a barne, a term used in the early Middle Ages for a member of the upper classes, although its precise meaning is not clear (it derives from Old English beorn, Old Norse barn ‘young warrior’). Barne was also occasionally used as a personal name (from an Old English, Old Norse byname), and some examples of the surname may derive from this use. Irish: possibly an Anglicized form of Gaelic ó Bearáin ‘descendant of Bearán’, a byname meaning ‘spear’. French: variant of Bern. Jewish: variant of Parnes. Werner German: from a personal name composed of the Germanic elements war(in) ‘guard’ + heri, hari ‘army’. Compare Warner. Dictionary of American Hope this helps. Fulmar is also an old name for a large sea bird found in Britain, so it could mean someone a long time ago looked like the bird. |