DACRE

GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: English
PRONOUNCED: Day-kur

From a surname which was originally derived from a place name in Cumbria, of Brythonic origin meaning “trickling stream”.

KAYD

GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: English
PRONOUNCED: KAYD

From a surname which was originally derived from a nickname meaning “round” in Old English.

MONTGOMERY

GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: English
PRONOUNCED: mənt-GUM-ər-ee, mənt-GUM-ree

From an English surname meaning “GUMARICH’s mountain” in Norman French. A notable bearer of this surname was Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), a British army commander during World War II.

HARVEY

GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: English
PRONOUNCED: HAHR-vee

From the Breton given name Haerviu, which meant “battle worthy”, from haer “battle” and viu “worthy”. This was the name of a 6th-century Breton hermit who is the patron saint of the blind. Settlers from Brittany introduced it to England after the Norman conquest. During the later Middle Ages it became rare, but it was revived in the 19th century.