Origin
Harry : 1: English (mainly south Wales and southwestern England): from the medieval personal name Harry a common form of Henry with assimilation of -nr- to -rr- and regular Middle English change of -er- to -ar-. In south Wales the surname is generally a post-medieval coinage in most cases not hereditary until the 18th or 19th century.2: French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Hariric composed of the elements hari heri ‘army’ + rīc ‘power(ful)’.3: Native American (e.g. Navajo): adoption of the English personal name Harry (see 1 above) as a surname.
Fitzharris : Irish: from Anglo-Norman French fi(t)z ‘son’ (see Fitz) + the personal name Harry ‘son of Harry’. MacLysaght describes this as the name of a distinguished County Wexford family also known as Fitzhenry.
Harkey : English: probably from a pet form of a medieval personal name probably either Harry or a derivative of Hard.
Harriman : English: occupational name from the personal name Harry a Middle English form of Henry + Middle English man ‘manservant’ i.e. ‘servant of Henry’. Compare Harry and Mann.
Harrison : English (northern): from the Middle English personal name Harry or Herry + -son. These were the common pronunciations of Henry (see Harry).
Henry : 1: English French Walloon and West Indian (mainly Jamaica and Haiti): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements haim heim ‘home’ + rīc ‘power ruler’ introduced to England by the Normans in the form Henri. During the Middle Ages this name became enormously popular in England and was borne by eight kings. Continental forms of the personal name were equally popular throughout Europe. In the period in which the majority of English surnames were formed a common English vernacular form of the name was Harry hence the surnames Harris (southern) and Harrison (northern). Official documents of the period normally used the Latinized form Henricus. In medieval times English Henry absorbed an originally distinct Old English personal name that had hagan ‘hawthorn’ (compare Hain 2) as its first element and there has also been confusion with Amery. In North America the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages e.g. German Heinrich and also their derivatives e.g. Swedish Henriksson (see Henrikson). Compare Henri.2: Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hInnéirghe ‘descendant of Innéirghe’ a byname based on éirghe ‘arising’.3: Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Éinrí or Mac Einri patronymics from the personal names Éinrí Einri Irish forms of Henry. It is also found as a variant of McEnery.4: Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Manlove : English (Derbyshire and Staffordshire; of Norman origin): nickname or occupational name from Old French mener ‘to harry chase or hunt’ + Old French love ‘(she-)wolf’ denoting a wolf hunter.
Parry : Welsh: Anglicized form of the patronymic ap Harry ‘son of Harry’ (see Harry Harris). The name is widespread in both England and Wales.
Perry : 1: Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Herry ‘son of Herry’ a variant of the personal name Harry (see Harris).2: English: topographic name for someone who lived near a pear tree (Middle English piri(e) peri(e) puri(e) Old English pirige pyrige) or a habitational name for someone who owned or came from a place so named. This surname and a number of variants have been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
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Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
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