Last names linked to ?VICTOR

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Victor : French Spanish English West Indian (mainly Haiti) African (mainly Nigeria) and Jewish: from the Latin personal name Victor meaning ‘conqueror’ (from an agent derivative of vincere ‘to win’). Early Christians often bore this name in reference to Christ's victory over sin and death and there are a large number of saints so called (some of the principal ones who contributed to the popularity of the personal name in the Middle Ages are a 2nd-century pope a 3rd-century Mauritanian martyr and a 5th-century bishop of Cologne).

Gwyther : from the Welsh personal name Gwythur Gwythyr derived from an oblique case form of Latin Victor.

Hawkins : 1: English: variant of Hawkin with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.2: English: habitational name with excrescent -s from Hawkinge (Kent). The placename derives from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’ + the placename forming suffix -ing. This name has been assimilated to the patronymic surname in Devon from Sir John Hawkyns (1532–95) victor against the Spanish Armada (1588) who was a member of the Devon family of Hawkins a branch of a Kentish family from the village of Hawkinge. They held land in Plymouth as long ago as 1480.3: Irish: variant of Haughn.

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