First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Name origin: Old English, French
Name meaning: Little warrior, water
Name origin: English (Midlands)
Name meaning: nickname for a dark-complexioned man, from Old English earp ‘swarthy’.