Given name & surname
Single
“brushwood; burnt clearing”
Single is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Single goes back to Old English sengel, meaning “brushwood; burnt clearing.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old English sengel (“brushwood; burnt clearing”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Similar names
If you love Single, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Settle
“sitting, residence”
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Syndercombe
“cinder, dross, slag, scoria”
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Sidman
“custom, habit”
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Symington
“enclosure; settlement, town”
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Sydenham
“large, spacious, wide” · “water meadow”
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Sanger
“singer”
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Southcote
“south”
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Seagrave
“fold, pen”
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