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English : probably an early variant of Doughty.Edward Doty (c.1600–55) was one of the passengers on the Mayflower, a servant of Stephen Hopkins. He became comparatively wealthy and moved to Duxbury MA, where he left nine children.
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English (mainly southwestern England)
English (mainly southwestern England) : variant of Bryan.The American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) came of a New England family, being descended from Stephen Bryant, who had settled in Plymouth Colony in 1632.
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English : from the Middle English female personal name Mau(l)d, a reduced form of the Norman name Mathilde, Matilda, composed of the Germanic elements maht ‘might’, ‘strength’ + hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’. The learned form Matilda was much less common in the Middle Ages than the vernacular forms Mahalt, Maud and the reduced pet form Till. The name was borne by the daughter of Henry I of England, who disputed the throne of England with her cousin Stephen for a number of years (1137–48). In Germany the popularity of the name in the Middle Ages was augmented by its being borne by a 10th-century saint, wife of Henry the Fowler and mother of Otto the Great.
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King Richard The Second' Sir Stephen Scroop.
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Greek English
Crown; wreath. In the bible Stephen was the first Christian martyr. Surname.
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Crowned in victory.
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English American Greek
Crown; wreath. From biblical Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
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English Greek
Crown; wreath. From biblical Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
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English
English : from Middle English, Old French peinto(u)r, oblique case of peintre ‘painter’, hence an occupational name for a painter (normally of colored glass). In the Middle Ages the walls of both great and minor churches were covered with painted decorations, and Reaney and Wilson note that in 1308 Hugh le Peyntour and Peter the Pavier were employed ‘making and painting the pavement’ at St. Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster. The name is widespread in central and southern England.German : topographic name for someone living in a fenced enclosure (see Bainter).
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English : status name for a young knight or novice at arms, Middle English and Old French bacheler (medieval Latin baccalarius), a word of unknown ultimate origin. The word had already been extended to mean ‘(young) unmarried man’ by the 14th century, but it is unlikely that many bearers of the surname derive from the word in that sense.The Reverend Stephen Bachiler (c.1561–1656) was a Puritan nonconformist, born in Hampshire, England, who came to New England in 1632, at the age of 71. In 1638/9 he was the leader of the founders of Hampton, NH.
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English : patronymic from the personal name Stephen (see Steven).
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English (Northumbria)
English (Northumbria) : of uncertain origin, perhaps a habitational name from either of two places called Soulby, one near Penrith and the other near Kirkby Stephen. These are probably named from Old Norse súl ‘post’ + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’. If this is right, it is hard to explain why the place name should have developed a form with an -s- in it. However, this alternation is found in other surnames (for example Bowlby/Bowlsby).
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English : from a pet form of the Norman personal name Aschetil (see Haskell).Stephen Hasket, a soap boiler and merchant of Salem, MA, was a native of Henstridge, Somerset, England. He came to Salem from Exeter, Devon, about 1666. His son Elias, born at Salem, went on to become governor of New Providence, Bahamas, before the people there revolted and sent him back to NY.
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English : from Middle English bakehous ‘bakehouse’ (Old English bæchÅ«s), hence a topographic name for someone who lived or worked in a bakery.Lithuanian (BaÄkus) : from Lithuanian baÄka ‘barrel’, ‘cask’, hence either a nickname for a short, fat man or an occupational name for a cooper.Among the original settlers of Norwich (later Franklin), CT, in 1660 was a certain Stephen Backus.
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English Greek
Crown; wreath. From biblical Stephen, the first Christian martyr. Surname.
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English
English : probably a nickname from Middle English gode ‘good’ (Old English gÅd) + year, yere ‘year’, bestowed on someone who frequently used the expression, perhaps in the sense ‘(as I hope to have a) good year’ or as a New Year salutation. Alternatively, it may have been from an Americanized form of French Gauthier.English translation of German Gutjahr, originally a nickname for someone born on New year’s Day.The inventor of vulcanized rubber, Charles Goodyear (1800–60) was of the fourth generation descended from Stephen Goodyear (1598–1658), who succeeded Gov. Theophilus Eaton as leader of the company of London merchants that founded the New Haven colony in CT in 1638.
Female
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Feminine form of English Stephen, STEPHENIE means "crown."Â
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Anglicized form of Greek Stephanos (Latin Stephanus), STEPHEN means "crown." In the bible, this is the name of one of the seven deacons of the church at Jerusalem who was stoned to death by the Jews.Â
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English
English : variant spelling of Stephens.Reduced form of German Stephanhans, from a compound of the personal names Stephan (see Steven) + Hans.
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English and North German
English and North German : from a personal name or nickname meaning ‘stag’, Middle English hert, Middle Low German hërte, harte.German : variant spelling of Hardt 1 and 2.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name or a nickname from German and Yiddish hart ‘hard’.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAirt ‘descendant of Art’, a byname meaning ‘bear’, ‘hero’. The English name became established in Ireland in the 17th century.French : from an Old French word meaning ‘rope’, hence possibly a metonymic occupational name for a rope maker or a hangman.Dutch : nickname from Middle Dutch hart, hert ‘hard’, ‘strong’, ‘ruthless’, ‘unruly’.This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. Stephen Hart was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.
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A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.
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The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; -- applied esp. to Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
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A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.
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One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr.