NAME ORIGIN AND MEANINGS

• Bauman:

  Respelling of German Baumann. (Baumann -- German, Dutch, Jewish (Ashkenazic): status name for a peasant or a nickname meaning ‘neighbor’, ‘fellow citizen’



• Brinkman:

  Dutch and Danish: topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow in low-lying marshland.



• Brown:

  (Origin Scottish) A name derived from complexion, color of hair or garments, consequently, a very common name.



• Hawke:

  May derive from the Olde English pre 7th Century male given "H(e)afoc", Hawk, originally a byname denoting a fierce, rapacious person, or one with a large hooked nose. "Hauok" (without surname) was recorded in the 1066 Winton Book of Hampshire, and an Osbertus filius (son of) Hauoc was noted in the 1115 Old English Byname Register of Oxfordshire. The second possibility is that Hawke is a metonymic occupational name for someone who bred and trained hawks, from the Middle English "hau(l)k, haueke" (Olde English "heafoc").



• Kipp:

  German topographic name for someone living on a hill, from Kippe ‘edge’, ‘brink’.



• Luce:

  The name is of Latin origin, meaning “light.” The term entered popular English literature in the 16th century.



• McGregor:

  (Origin Scottish) The descendants of Gregor, who was the son of Alpin, King of Scotland. A family of great antiquity, and of distinguished ancestors.



• Neff:

  German and Swiss German: from Middle High German neve ‘nephew’ (later rather broader in application, rather like cousin in English), hence probably a distinguishing name for a close relation or familiar of a prominent personage.



• Nelson:

  Norway patronymic name (a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father). For example if the fathers given name was Nils then the sons name would be Nilsson. Norwegian Naming Patterns.
  Americanized spelling of the like-sounding Scandinavian names Nilsen, Nielsen, and Nilsson.



• Norstrom:

  Swedish (Norström): ornamental name composed of the elements norr, nord ‘north’ + ström ‘river’.



• Wilcox:

  English patronymic name (a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father) from Wilcock. (Wilcock -- English (chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire): from a medieval personal name, composed of the elements Will 1 + the hypocoristic suffix -cok (Cocke).) (Cocke -- nickname from Middle English cok ‘cock’, ‘male bird or fowl’ (Old English cocc))



• Wolf:

  German: habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a wolf, Middle High German wolf. Wolfe: Irish, English, and German: variant spelling of Wolf.

Source: Ancestry.com in part.