English names are personal names used in, or originating in, England . In England, as elsewhere in the English-speaking world , a complete name usually consists of one or more given names , commonly referred to as first names, and a (most commonly patrilineal , rarely matrilineal ) family name or surname , also referred to as a last name. The given names after the first are often referred to as middle names .
21-631: Hoare Language(s) English and Irish Origin Language(s) Middle English Word/name hor(e) Meaning Grey, greyish, grey-white (usually referring to hair) Region of origin British Isles Other names Variant form(s) Hore , Hoar , Dore Hoare is an English surname derived from Middle English hor(e) meaning grey- or white-haired. Notable people with
42-553: A PhD under the supervision of Yorick Wilks . In 1983, he was appointed managing editor of COBUILD , and in 1987 he took on the additional role of chief editor of English dictionaries for Collins (now HarperCollins ). In the summer of 1988 and 1989, he was a visiting scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he co-authored with Ken Church influential papers on corpus-based statistical methods in lexical analysis. Hanks died on 1 February 2024, at
63-683: A basis for the New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998), while the lexicographers working on it were also guinea-pig users in the development of one of the earliest search engines ( AltaVista ). On the basis of the COBUILD and HECTOR research in corpus analysis, Hanks began to develop his theory of Norms and Exploitations. From 2001 to 2005, he was adjunct professor of computational lexicography at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, where he worked closely with James Pustejovsky . In 2003, he
84-649: A legal name, though most people use their birth name (as registered on the Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths , regulated by the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987 , which allows only characters that are used in English or Welsh), often using a spouse's surname (proved with a marriage certificate), or (if an adult) a name formally declared by deed poll . No regulations include any specific provisions regarding what names are acceptable. Nonetheless,
105-606: Is a result of a combination of greater individualism in the choice of names, and the increasing ethnic heterogeneity of the UK population, which led to a wider range of frequent given names from non-European traditions. Oliver and Olivia were the most popular baby names in England and Wales in 2018. According to Christopher Daniell, in 1140 marked what might be the first recorded use of a modern surname, inherited by multiple generations. These were not always regularly formed: for example,
126-699: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles English name Few given names used in England have English derivations. Many names are of Hebrew ( Daniel , David , Elizabeth , Susan ) or Greek ( Nicholas , Dorothy , George , and Helen ) origin. Some are Germanic names , sometimes adopted via the transmission of French ( Robert , Richard , Gertrude , Charlotte ) or originate from idoeuropean ( Adrian , Amelia , Patrick ) or Celtic. A small fraction of given names has an actual English derivation (see Anglo-Saxon names ), such as Alfred , Ashley , Edgar , Edmund , Edward , Edwin , Harold and Oswald . A distinctive feature of Anglophone names
147-585: Is not unusual for compound surnames to be composed of separate words not linked by a hyphen, for example Iain Duncan Smith , a former leader of the Conservative Party , whose surname is "Duncan Smith". Patrick Hanks Patrick Wyndham Hanks (24 March 1940 – 1 February 2024) was an English lexicographer , corpus linguist , and onomastician . He edited dictionaries of general language, as well as dictionaries of personal names . Hanks
168-426: Is the surnames of important families used as given names, originally to indicate political support or patronage. Many examples have now become normal names chosen because parents like them, and any political sense lost. Most are male names like Cecil, Gerald , Howard, Percy, Montague, Stanley or Gordon, though some of those some have female versions like Cecilia or Geraldine. Other languages have few equivalents, although
189-534: The General Register Office and various organizations that help with creating and enrolling deed polls will reject anything that is unreasonable (racist, offensive, fraudulent, implying a title of nobility not held, unpronounceable, not in the Latin script, etc.). Double-barrelled names may be formed for a variety of reasons, including combining of spouses' surnames upon marriage or, more commonly in
210-440: The surname Hoare . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoare&oldid=1214902729 " Categories : Surnames English-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
231-636: The age of 83. From 1990 to 2000, Hanks served as chief editor of current English dictionaries at Oxford University Press (OUP). In 1991 to 1992, he was joint principal investigator (with Mary-Claire van Leunen) of the HECTOR project at the Systems Research Center of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in Palo Alto, CA. The HECTOR project was a collaboration between OUP and DEC, and although its results were never published, they served as
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#1732775919535252-737: The author of many papers on lexical analysis , lexicography , onomastics , and similes and metaphor . He is editor in chief of the Dictionary of American Family Names (3 volumes, OUP 2003), and is co-author with Flavia Hodges and Kate Hardcastle of the Oxford Dictionary of First Names (1990, 2006). He was section editor for lexicography in the second edition of the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (ELL2; 2005), edited by Keith Brown, for which he commissioned survey articles on lexicography in all
273-514: The boys born in London in the year 1510, 24.4% were named John , 13.3% were named Thomas and 11.7% were named William. A trend towards more diversity in given names began in the mid-19th century, and by 1900, only 22.9% of the newborn boys, and 16.2% of the newborn girls in the UK shared the top three given names for each gender. The trend continued during the 20th century, and by 1994, these figures had fallen to 11% and 8.6%, respectively. This trend
294-693: The empirical procedure of Corpus Pattern Analysis , which links word meaning to patterns of word use and systematically distinguishes patterns of normal usage from creative uses. After a year in Prague at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University , Prague, he returned to England as lead researcher on the FaNUK project in the Bristol Centre for Linguistics in the University of
315-433: The past, adding another family's surname as a condition of inheritance. Compound surnames in English feature two or more words, often joined by a hyphen or hyphens: for example, Henry Hepburne-Scott . A few families have three or four words making up their surname, such as Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton and Alexander Charles Robert Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th Marquess of Londonderry . However, it
336-477: The saint's surname Xavier is often used by Roman Catholics. During the majority of the 19th century, the most popular given names were Mary for girls and either John or William for boys. Throughout the Early Modern period, the diversity of given names was comparatively small; the three most frequent male given names accounted for close to 50% of the male population throughout this period. For example, of
357-460: The sons of a certain French named Robert used a modern inheritable surname, FitzGerald , in honour of an earlier relative, named Gerald . While it is normal for a child to be given one of their parents' surnames, traditionally the father's (or increasingly some combination of the two), there is nothing in UK law that explicitly requires this. Under English common law, a person may use any name as
378-2490: The surname include: Albert Alfred Hoare, known as Bert Hoare (1874–1962), South Australian politician Des Hoare (born 1934), Australian cricketer Desmond Hoare (Royal Navy officer) (1910–1988), British sailor and educator Edward Hoare (disambiguation) , several people Elizabeth Hoare (1915–2001), English church furnisher and actress Henry Hoare (banker) (1677–1725), English banker and land-owner Henry Hoare (1705–1785), English banker and garden owner-designer James Hoare (born 1943), British academic and historian Joe Hoare (1881–1947), English footballer John Gurney Hoare (1810–1875), English cricketer and banker Kelly Hoare (born 1963), Australian politician Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784–1836), English diarist and writer Mad Mike Hoare (1919–2020), Irish mercenary leader Marko Attila Hoare (born 1972), British historian Mary Hoare (1744–1820), English artist Peter Hoare (disambiguation) , several people Prince Hoare (elder) (c.1711–1769), English sculptor Prince Hoare (younger) (1755–1834), English painter and dramatist Sir Richard Hoare (banker) (1648–1718), British goldsmith, banker and politician Sir Richard Hoare, 2nd Baronet (1758–1838), British antiquarian and archaeologist Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Baronet (1841–1915), English politician Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (1880–1959), British politician Sarajane Hoare , British-born fashion journalist, stylist and magazine editor Seamus Hoare , Gaelic footballer Sean Hoare (1963–2011), British journalist Seán Hoare (born 1994), Irish professional footballer Simon Hoare (born 1969), British politician Sir Tony Hoare (born 1934), British computer scientist Wilfred Hoare (1909–2003), English cricketer and headmaster William Hoare (c.1707–1792), British painter See also [ edit ] Hoare baronets , four Baronetcies Hoare logic , named after its inventor, Tony Hoare All pages with titles containing Hoare References [ edit ] ^ Hanks, Patrick ; Coates, Richard ; McClure, Peter (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland . Oxford University Press . p. 1297. ISBN 978-0-19-252747-9 . OCLC 964412220 . Retrieved 5 June 2019 . [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
399-479: The world's major languages and on major issues in lexicography and lexicology. He edited a multivolume collection covering all aspects of lexicology for Routledge , and, with Rachel Giora, a companion collection covering all aspects of metaphor and figurative language. From 2005 to 2009 he was a senior research associate at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University , Brno , Czech Republic , where he developed
420-791: Was appointed consultant and visiting scientist to the Collocations Project and Electronic Dictionary of the German Language (DWDS) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) headed by Christiane Fellbaum . He has also served as a consultant on lexicographical methodology to the Institute of the Czech Language in Prague, to Patakis Publishers in Athens, and others. Patrick Hanks was
441-589: Was educated at Ardingly College , University College, Oxford (BA, MA), and Masaryk University (PhD). After graduation from Oxford, he started his lexicographic career as editor of the Hamlyn Encyclopedic World Dictionary (1971). In 1970, he was appointed editor of Collins English Dictionary (1979). From 1980 to 1983, he was director of the Names Research Unit of the University of Essex , England, where he began
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