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EL-HASHEM : Means "the crusher" from the Arabic hashim.

EL-MOFTY : Means "the Mufti" (which refers to a legal expert, or the one with the fatwa). Mufti is a Muslim legal advisor consulted in applying a religious law. ...

ELD : From Old Norse eldr, modern Swedish eld, meaning "fire".

ELDER : Derived from Old English ealdra meaning "older", used to distinguish two people who had the same name.

ELDRED : From the given name EALDRÆD.

ELDRIDGE : Derived from the Middle English given name Eldric.

ELENA : Derived from the given name ELENA.

ELIOT : Variant of ELLIOTT.

ELIOTT : Variant of ELLIOTT.

ELIZONDO : Means "a person who lives close to a church" from Basque eleiza "church" and ondo "near".

ELLERY : From the medieval masculine name HILARY.

ELLIOT : Variant of ELLIOTT.

ELLIOTT : Derived from a diminutive of the given name ELIAS.

ELLIS : Derived from the given name ELIJAH, or sometimes ELISEDD.

ELLISON : Patronymic form of the English name Ellis, from the medieval given name Elis, a vernacular form of ELIJAH.

ELLISSON : Variant of ELLISON.

ELLISTON : Variant of ELLISON.

ELLSWORTH : Habitational surname for a person from Elsworth, Cambridgeshire.

ELMER : Derived from the Old English name ÆÐELMÆR.

ELMERSSON : Means "son of ELMER".

ELVIS : Variant of ELWES.

ELWES : Derived from the given name ELOISE.

ELWIN : Variant of ELWYN.

ELWYN : Derived from the given names ÆLFWINE, ÆÐELWINE or EALDWINE.

ELY : From the name of a town in eastern England meaning "eel district".

ELZINGA : From a place name, probably Elsing in Drente. In Dutch the noun els means "alder tree".

EMERSON : Means "son of EMERY". The surname was borne by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), an American writer and philosopher who wrote about transcendentalism.

EMMET : Variant of EMMETT. This name was borne by the Irish nationalist Robert Emmet (1778-1803).

EMMETT : Derived from a diminutive of the feminine given name EMMA.

ENDICOTT : Means "from the end cottage".



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