Origin
Cormell : from any of several places in France. The Domesday Book examples derive from Cormeilles Eure but later arrivals may have come from Cormeilles-en-Vexin Seine et Oise (see Anglo-Norman Families).
Delamare : 1: from any of the numerous places in Normandy Brittany and Maine named La Mare (‘the pool’) preceded by the French preposition de ‘of’. The surname is common in Normandy especially in Seine Maritime and Eure and appears in the Channel Islands from the early 14th century onwards. It was the name of several powerful families in Anglo-Norman England where it later developed pronunciations (see (2)) that help to distinguish it from the name borne by the Channel Islanders and by later French migrants especially Huguenot refugees who settled in England in the 16th and 17th centuries. 2: see Delamere.
Paris : 1: French and English (via Norman French): from the Old French personal name Paris a variant of Patrice Patris (from Latin Patricius from patricius ‘patrician nobleman’; see Patrick) which became associated with the name of the Trojan prince Paris in Homer's Iliad (see Parise 1). Compare Parris.2: English: habitational name from the city of Paris in France. The placename is taken from the name of a Celtic people the Parisii who settled on the banks of the River Seine in pre-Roman times.3: Catalan (París): from a shortened form of the personal name Aparici (see Aparicio).4: Hungarian (Páris): from the personal name Páris or Párizs (see Parise 1).5: German: nickname for someone who had been in Paris or had trade relations with the city.6: Italian: variant of Parise.
Seiner : 1: South German: nickname from Middle High German seinen ‘to hesitate to tarry’.2: North German: occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle Low German seine segene ‘trawl net’.
Sina : 1: Americanized form of Polish Sajna: nickname from a derivative of Middle High German seine ‘slow lazy’ or a variant of Szajna which is of German origin too (see Schein).3: Albanian: habitational name from Sinë (definite form Sina) the name of a village in the Dibër County the birthplace of the Albanian national hero Gjergj Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).2: Albanian: from Sinë (definite form Sina) a short form of the Muslim personal name Sinan of Turkish and ultimately of Arabic origin (from sinān ‘power’ also ‘lance’).
Sine : English (Surrey): nickname apparently from Middle English signe singe sine sinne seine (Old English seg(e)n Old French seing sain) ‘sign mark’ more specifically ‘(pilgrim's) badge’ or ‘heraldic banner or device’ perhaps given to someone who wore or carried one of these.
Zane : 1: English (Devon): apparently a nickname from Middle English seine ‘cured healed’ with West Country voicing of the initial fricative consonant.2: Italian (Venice and Mantua): from a variant of the Venetian personal name Z(u)an(n)i ‘John’ (see Zanni).3: Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Zahn.4: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 曾 (see Zeng) and 冼 (see Xian 1).
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Source : FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England
DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
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