Origin
Philip : 1: Scottish English German Dutch and Jewish: from the Greek personal name Philippos (from philein ‘to love’ + hippos ‘horse’). In the New Testament this name is borne by one of the apostles; it was also borne by various other early Christian saints. It owes part of its popularity to the medieval romances about Alexander the Great whose father was Philip of Macedon. As a Jewish name it represents a borrowing of the personal name from Christians. As a Highland Scottish surname it represents an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhilib ‘son of Philip’. In North America the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages e.g. Spanish Felipe Catalan Felip Polish Czech Slovak Slovenian or Croatian Filip Albanian Filipi and their derivatives (see examples at Philips). The name Philip is also found among Christians in southern India (compare Philipose and Pothen) but since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames the southern Indian name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US. Compare Phillip.2: French (southern) and Breton (Finistère): variant of Philippe.
Barry : 1: Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beargha ‘descendant of Beargh’ a byname meaning ‘plunderer’.2: Irish and Manx: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Báire ‘descendant of Báire’ a short form of either of two Gaelic personal names Bairrfhionn or Fionnbharr both meaning ‘fair-topped’. This may also be the source of the Manx name Barry whose family's main seat was Ballavarry in Kirk Andreas.3: English Welsh and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name which according to the Anglo-Norman chronicler Gerald de Barry (Giraldus Cambrensis) refers to the Island of Barry opposite the town of Barry (Glamorgan) owned by the Barry family by gift of William the Conqueror. In Ireland the surname mostly goes back to another member of the family Philip de Barry who took part in the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169. His son William de Barry was granted baronies in South Munster by King John and his principal seat was Castlelyons (Cork). Derivation from one of the French hamlets called Barri is unlikely since they all occur in southern France far from spheres of Norman influence.4: English: nickname from Old French barré Anglo-Norman French barri ‘striped’ probably in reference to striped clothing or to a piece of horizontally striped cloth worn around the helmet for identification in battle. The term barry came to be used in heraldry for a field horizontally divided by strips of alternating color.5: Scottish: variant of Barrie.6: French: topographic name from Occitan barri ‘part of a town outside its walls’ or a habitational name from any of hamlets called Barri in southern France named with the same word. Compare Bary 2 and Dubarry.7: Altered form of French Baril and Barré (see Barre 3 and 4). Compare Barrie 3 Bary 3 and Berry 7.8: Walloon and northern French: habitational name from Barry in Wallonia (Belgium). This surname is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium. Compare Bary 1.9: West African (mainly Guinea and Burkina Faso): from the name of the Barry clan of the Fulani people of unexplained etymology.
Bonsfield : perhaps from an altered form of a surname derived from Bonscale (Westm) whose name is from Old Scandinavian bóndi ‘peasant freeholder’ with substitution of -field for -scale or -skill ‘shieling’. Compare Tho. Bonskill 1711 Thos. Bonskell 1746 Philip Bonsfield 1749 in IGI (Kendal Westm).
Bourgoin : French:: 1: variant of Bourgouin (and in North America an altered form of this) a habitational name for someone from Burgundy (Old French Bourgogne) a region of eastern France having Dijon as its center. The area was invaded by the Burgundii an ancient Germanic tribe from whom it takes its name in about AD 480. The duchy of Burgundy created in 877 by Charles II King of the Western Franks was extremely powerful in the later Middle Ages especially under Philip the Bold (1342–1404; duke from 1363). Compare Bourgoyne and Bourguignon.2: variant of Bourguin from the ancient Germanic personal name Burgwin composed of the elements burg ‘protection’ and win ‘friend’.
Burgoyne : English (of Norman origin): habitational name for someone from Burgundy (Middle English Burgoin Old French Bourgogne Latin Burgundia) a region of eastern France having Dijon as its center. The area was invaded by the Burgundii an ancient Germanic tribe from whom it takes its name in about AD 480. The duchy of Burgundy created in 877 by Charles II King of the West Franks was extremely powerful in the later Middle Ages especially under Philip the Bold (1342–1404 duke from 1363).
Colville : English and Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Colleville in Seine-Maritime France named with the Scandinavian personal name Koli (see Cole 2) + Old French ville ‘settlement village’. The Scottish branch of the family were descended from Philip de Colville who came to Scotland as a household knight of kings Malcolm IV (1153–65) and William ‘the Lion’ (1165–1214).
Dilnot : possibly a nickname from Middle English dilnote ‘dill nut’ a name for one of several umbelliferous plants with edible tubers also known as earth nuts.perhaps a relationship name from an unrecorded Middle English personal name *Dilnot (Old English *Dilnōð). Compare Dil and the surname of Philip Dylewyne Mariot Dylewyne 1275 in Hundred Rolls (Norfolk) which looks like another unrecorded Old English personal name *Dilwine.
Filkins : English:: 1: patronymic from the medieval personal name Filkin Felkin a pet form of Phil (see Fill) short for Philip.2: habitational name from a place so called in Oxfordshire whose name is probably a tribal derivative (with Old English -ingas ‘people of’) of the Old English personal name Filica (of uncertain origin). Surname forms such as de Filking(es) are found in the surrounding area from the 12th and 13th centuries.
Fill : English: from the Middle English personal name Phill Fill a pet form of Philip.
Filson : 1: English: patronymic from Fill + -son ‘son of Fill’.2: Irish: from Mac Philib a patronymic from the Greek personal name Philippos Gaelicized as Pilib or Filib and has been in use in Ireland since the Early-Christian period. Bearers of the Norman patronymic Fitz Philip were also Gaelicized as Mac Philib.
Neri : 1: Spanish: from a Christian personal name bestowed in honor of Saint Philip Neri a 16th-century Italian priest (Filippo Neri in Italian; see 2 for origin of his surname) the founder of the Congregation of the Oratory a society of secular clergy. Compare Neris and Nery.2: Italian (Tuscany): patronymic or plural form of Nero. Compare Nery.
Neris : Portuguese (Brazil) and Hispanic: probably from a Christian personal name bestowed in honor of Saint Philip Neri (see Neri 1).
Nery : 1: Portuguese and Hispanic (mainly Philippines and Mexico): from a Christian personal name bestowed in honor of Saint Philip Neri (see Neri 1).2: Americanized form of Italian Neri 2.
Pexton : variant of Pickstone. The name may sometimes have been confused with Paxton. Compare John Pexston 1727 Philip Paxton 1765 in IGI (Fridaythorpe ER Yorks).
Phippard : from Middle English *Phippard perhaps a pet form of Philip with a suffix of French origin. Compare Phipp and Phippen.
Pippet : from Middle English Pipet Pipot diminutive forms of Pip a pet form of either Old French Pipin Pipon (see Peppin and Pepys) though this was very rare in England or of the common Old French Middle English Philip (compare Pipkin).
Purfield : denoting someone who lived near a field or enclosure where pear-trees grew from Middle English per(e) + feld or from a minor place so named.Pernell Purfeld 1350 in Patent Rolls; Philip Pirfield citizen and grocer of London 1406 in Patent Rolls; Susan Purfield 1618 in Parish Registers (Lenham Kent); Edward Purfield 1653 in IGI (Hackney Middx); John Purfeild 1692 in IGI (Icklesham Sussex); Hannah Perfield about 1719 in Parish Registers (Bridlington ER Yorks); Richard Porfeild 1730 in Parish Registers (Much Wenlock Shrops).
Sanfilippo : Italian (mainly Sicily and southern Calabria): habitational name from any of several places called with reference to a local church or shrine dedicated to Saint Philip specifically San Filippo del Mela in Messina province San Filippo near Reggio Calabria.
Versey : apparently French from France or Flanders; perhaps from Verzy (Marne) or Verzé (Saône-et-Loire) but no French surname corresponding to either is known. Philip de Versay is described in 1276 as a ‘merchant of Hu’ i.e. Eu (Seine-Maritime).
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Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England
FANBI : The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, ©2021, University of the West of England
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