Wood

1. mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood or a metonymic occupational name for a woodcutter or forester, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu).
2. nickname for a mad, eccentric, or violent person, from Middle English wod ‘mad’, ‘frenzied’ (Old English wad), as in Adam le Wode, Worcestershire 1221.

Hollopeter

German: of uncertain origin; perhaps a distinguishing nickname Hollepeter ‘helpful Peter’. (like Hollefreund and Gutfreund; see Goodfriend), from Middle Low German holde, holt ‘friendly’, ‘helpful’ + the personal name Peter.

Vickers

 English: patronymic for the son of a vicar or, perhaps in most cases, an occupational name for the servant of a vicar (see Vicker). In many cases it may  represent an elliptical form of a topographic name. Compare Parsons.

Kelley

Irish, Scottish, and English: variant spelling of Kelly.  Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ceallaigh ‘descendant of Ceallach’, an ancient Irish personal name, originally a byname meaning ‘bright-headed’, later understood as ‘frequenting churches’ (Irish ceall). There are several early Irish saints who bore this name. Kelly is now the most common of all Irish family names in Ireland.

Hibbert

English: variant of Hilbert.  English, French, Dutch, and German: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’.

Kosse
          German: variant of Koss.

1. Germanized spelling of Czech, Polish, Slovenian, and Jewish Kos.
2. Eastern German: from a short form of the personal name Kosmas (see Kosman), popular mainly in Slavic-speaking regions.
3. German: from an altered form of an old personal name formed with Old High German got ‘god’.
4. Norwegian: habitational name from a farm so named, from Old Norse kos ‘mound’, ‘heap’.

Ewing

Scottish: altered form of Ewen (itself a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eòghainn ‘son of Eòghann’), formed as if it were an English patronymic ending in -ing. See also McEwen.

Everingham

An ancient Norman name that arrived in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Everingham family lived in Lincolnshire, at Manor of Barton upon Humber.

Horrocks

English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from Great or Little Horrocks in Greater Manchester, so named from the plural of the dialect term hurrock ‘heaped-up pile of loose stones or rubbish’ (of uncertain origin).

Richmond

English: habitational name from any of the numerous places so named, in northern France as well as in England. These are named with the Old French elements riche ‘rich’, ‘splendid’ + mont ‘hill’. Richmond in North Yorkshire was named after a Richmont in France immediately after the Norman Conquest, and in many if not most cases the English surname can de derived from this place. Richmond in southwest London received this name only in the reign of Henry VII, in honor of the king, who had been Earl of Richmond until he came to the throne, and is unlikely to be the source of this surname. The listing will also show Richman which is the name John Richmond changed to in IL.

Webster

English (chiefly Yorkshire, Lancashire, and the Midlands) and Scottish: occupational name for a weaver, early Middle English webber, agent derivative of Webb.

Carbaugh

1. Americanized spelling of the German habitational name Gerbach, from a place so named in the Palatinate.
2. Americanized spelling of Czech Carboch, of unexplained etymology.

Novak

1. Czech and Slovak, Croatian and Serbian, Slovenian, Hungarian (Novák), and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from Slavic novy ‘new’, denoting a newcomer to a place. Compare English Newman.
2. Slovenian: also a topographic name for a peasant who settled on newly cleared land.

Reissig

1. variant of Reisig.
2. nickname for an acquisitive person, from Middle High German reizec ‘greedy’, ‘covetous’.
3. topographic name from Middle High German risach ‘undergrowth’, ‘brushwood’. Compare Reis 1.

Virgin

English: from a medieval vernacular form of Virgo.  English: of uncertain origin. The surname coincides in form with Latin virgo, genitive virginis ‘maiden’, from which is derived (via Old French) modern English virgin. It is possible that the surname was originally a nickname for someone who had played the part of the Blessed Virgin Mary in a mystery play. Alternatively, it may have been a nickname for a shy or girlish young man, or possibly ironically for a lecher.

Case

1. English: from Anglo-Norman French cas(s)e ‘case’, ‘container’ (from Latin capsa), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of boxes or chests.
2. Americanized spelling of French Caisse.
3. Americanized spelling of Kaas.
4. Americanized spelling of German Käse, a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of cheese. Compare Kaeser.

Davis

Southern English: patronymic from David.

Booth

Northern English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived in a small hut or bothy, Middle English both(e), especially a cowman or shepherd. The word is of Scandinavian origin (compare Old Danish both, Old Norse buð) and was used to denote various kinds of temporary shelter, typically a cowshed or a herdsman’s hut. In the British Isles the surname is still more common in northern England, where Scandinavian influence was more marked, and in Scotland, where the word was borrowed into Gaelic as both(an).

Grames

Possibly an altered spelling of German Gramm(e)s, from a short form of the personal name Hieronymus.

Patterson

1. Scottish and northern English: patronymic from a pet form of Pate, a short form of Patrick.
2. Irish: in Ulster of English or Scottish origin; in County Galway, a surname taken by bearers of Gaelic Ó Caisín ‘descendant of the little curly-headed one’ (from Gaelic casán), which is usually Anglicized as Cussane.

Truax

Americanized spelling of French du Trieux, a habitational name from Trieux in Meurthe-et-Moselle, in northeastern France.