Yardley is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English (West Midlands). Yardley means: English (West Midlands) : habitational name from any of various places, for example Yardley in the West Midlands, Essex, Northamptonshire, etc., or Yarley in Somerset, named with Old English gerd, gyrd ‘pole’, ‘stick’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. The compound apparently referred to a forest where timber could be gathered.
Yarde is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Yarde means: English : variant spelling of Yard.
Yard is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Yard means: English : topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure of some kind, Middle English yard(e) (Old English geard; compare Garth).English : nickname from Middle English yard ‘rod’, ‘stick’ (Old English (Anglian) gerd), probably with reference to a rod or staff carried as a symbol of authority.English : from the same word as in 2, used to denote a measure of land. The surname probably denoted someone who held this quantity of land, and as it was quite a large amount (varying at different periods and in different places, but generally approximately 30 acres, a quarter of a hide), such a person would have been a reasonably prosperous farmer.
Yarbrough is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Yarbrough means: English : habitational name from Yarborough and Yarburgh in Lincolnshire, named with Old English eorðburg ‘earthworks’, ‘fortifications’, (a compound of eorðe ‘earth’, ‘soil’ + burh ‘fortress’, ‘stronghold’).
Yarbough is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Yarbough means: English : variant of Yarbrough.
Yarborough is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English (Lincolnshire). Yarborough means: English (Lincolnshire) : variant of Yarbrough.
Yarboro is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Yarboro means: English : variant of Yarbrough.
Yarberry is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Yarberry means: English : variant of Yarbrough.English : possibly a habitational name from any of the places named Arbury (for example in Warwickshire and Cambridgeshire), named from Old English eorðbyrig, the dative form of eorðburg ‘earthworks’.
Yarber is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Yarber means: English : probably an altered form of English Yarbord or Yerburgh, both variants of Yarbrough.
Yap is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Yap means: English : nickname for a clever or cunning person, from Middle English yap ‘devious’, ‘deceitful’, ‘bent’; ‘shrewd’.Americanized spelling of North German Japp.Chinese : variant of Ye.Filipino : unexplained.
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