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Garbutt (name)
Garbutt is a surname associated with English-speaking culture. Etymology In origin, ''Garbutt'' is a personal name. It (and the variants ''Garbut'', ''Garbett'', ''Garbet'', ''Garbert'', ''Garbould'', ''Gorbold'', ''Gorbutt'', ''Gorbett'', ''Gorbert'', ''Carbett'', ''Carbert'', ''Carbutt'', ''Carbould'', and ''Carbott'') come from several different names which were brought to England by settlers associated with the Norman conquest: ''Gerbold'', ''Gerbert'', and ''Gerbod''. All these names themselves came into use among the Normans by borrowing from Continental Germanic, and became confused with one another already in the Middle Ages. Distribution In the spelling ''Garbutt'', the name was borne by 2163 people in the 1881 Census of the United Kingdom, mostly in Yorkshire and County Durham, particularly in the North Riding. As of around 2016, 2877 people bore the name in Great Britain and 72 in Ireland.''The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland'', ed. by Patrick H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Personal Name
A personal name, or full name, in onomastic terminology also known as prosoponym (from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον / ''prósōpon'' - person, and ὄνομα / ''onoma'' - name), is the set of names by which an individual person is known, and that can be recited as a word-group, with the understanding that, taken together, they all relate to that one individual. In many cultures, the term is synonymous with the ''birth name'' or ''legal name'' of the individual. In linguistic classification, personal names are studied within a specific onomastic discipline, called anthroponymy. In Western culture, nearly all individuals possess at least one ''given name'' (also known as a ''first name'', ''forename'', or ''Christian name''), together with a ''surname'' (also known as a ''last name'' or ''family name''). In the name "Abraham Lincoln", for example, ''Abraham'' is the first name and ''Lincoln'' is the surname. Surnames in the West generally indicate that the individual be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
