First name origin & meaning: English: Lord; noble title Last name origins & meanings:
- English: nickname from the vocabulary word lord,
presumably for someone who behaved in a lordly manner, or perhaps one
who had earned the title in some contest of skill or had played the
part of the ‘Lord of Misrule’ in the Yuletide festivities. It may also
have been an occupational name for a servant in the household of the
lord of the manor, or possibly a status name for a landlord or the
lord of the manor himself. The word itself derives from Old English
hlāford, earlier hlāf-weard, literally
‘loaf-keeper’, since the lord or chief of a clan was responsible for
providing food for his dependants.
- Irish: English name
adopted as a translation of the main element of Gaelic Ó
Tighearnaigh (see Tierney) and Mac Thighearnáin
(see McKiernan).
- French: nickname from Old French
l’ord ‘the dirty one’.
- Possibly an altered spelling of
Laur.
- The French name is particularly associated with Acadia in Canada,
around 1760.
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