# The Romance of Names Author: Weekley, Ernest, 1865-1954 Genre: Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24374 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Romance+of+Names+Weekley&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary In preparing this revised edition I have been able to make use of much information conveyed to me by readers interested in the subject. The general arrangement of the book remains unchanged, but a certain number of statements have been modified, corrected, or suppressed. The study of our surnames has been mostly left to the amateur philologist, and many origins given by my predecessors as ascertained facts turn out, on investigation, to be unsupported by a shred of evidence. I cannot hope that this little book in its new form is free from error, but I feel that it has benefited by the years I have spent in research since its original publication. I would ask reader to accept it, not as a... ## Chapters - [Chapter 44](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/44/index.md) - [Chapter 46](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/46/index.md) - [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/34/index.md) - [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter 38](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/38/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/35/index.md) - [Chapter 41](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/41/index.md) - [Chapter 45](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/45/index.md) - [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/26/index.md) - [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/31/index.md) - [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/33/index.md) - [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter 37](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/37/index.md) - [Chapter 42](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/42/index.md) - [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/18/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 40](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/40/index.md) - [Chapter 43](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/43/index.md) - [Chapter 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/36/index.md) - [Chapter 39](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/39/index.md) - [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/32/index.md) - [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/28/index.md) - [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/27/index.md) - [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/30/index.md) - [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/29/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-names-24374/chapters/13/index.md)