Bacon Name Meaning. English and French: metonymic occupational name for a preparer and seller of cured pork, from Middle English, Old French bacun, bacon 'bacon' (a word of Germanic origin, akin to Back 1). English and French: from the Germanic personal name Bac(c)o, Bahho, from the root bag- 'to fight'.
Boswell Name Meaning. Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Beuzeville in Seine Maritime, France, named with Old French Beuze (a personal name probably of Germanic origin) + ville 'settlement'.
Boyce Name Meaning. Scottish, northern Irish, and English: topographic name for someone who lived by a wood, from Old French bois 'wood'. English: patronymic from the Middle English nickname boy 'lad', 'servant', or possibly from an Old English personal name Boia, of uncertain origin.
Meanings and history of the name Branch: | Edit. English surname meaning "limb of a tree", derived from the Latin word branca, meaning "foot or paw". Famous real-life people named Branch: | Edit. Branch Rickey, MLB general manager who broke the color barrier in baseball by signing Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn ...
Bunyan Name Meaning. English (Bedfordshire): nickname for someone disfigured by a lump or hump, from a diminutive of Old French bugne 'swelling', 'protuberance'. The term bugnon was also applied to a kind of puffed-up fruit tart, and so the surname may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a baker of these.
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or sold coarse woolen cloth, Middle English burel or borel (from Old French burel, a diminutive of b(o)ure); the same word was used adjectively in the sense 'reddish brown' and may have been applied as a nickname ...
The name Butch is an American baby name. In American the meaning of the name Butch is: Butcher.
Butler Name Meaning. English and Irish: from a word that originally denoted a wine steward, usually the chief servant of a medieval household, from Norman French butuiller (Old French bouteillier, Latin buticularius, from buticula 'bottle').
