Font Name

Millett, but the chief origin of the surname Miles is a contracted form of the common font-name Michael. ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)

Thus our name Harvey, no longer usual as a font-name, is Fr. Herod, which represents the heroic German name Herewig, to the second syllable of which belongs such an apparently insignificant name as ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)

Packman, Pakeman, and Paxman belong more probably to the font-name Pack (Chapter IX), which also appears in Paxon, either ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)

Lastly, the coalescence of John, the commonest English font-name, with Joan, the earlier form of Jane, was inevitable, while the French forms Jean and ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)

Edward I. Pim, as a female font-name, may be from Euphemia, and Siddons appears to belong to Sidonia, while the pretty name Avice appears as Avis and ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)

The name Morris has three other origins (the font-name Maurice, the nickname Moorish, and the local marsh), but both Morris and Morrison are sometimes to be referred to ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)

Arthur is a rare medieval font-name, a fact no doubt due to the sad fate of King John's nephew. ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)

Abraham, the first of which was a common medieval font-name. ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)

It would be hard to say which English font-name has given the largest number of family names. ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)

Those birds which have now assumed a font-name, such as Jack daw, Mag pie, of course occur without it as surnames, e.g. Daw and Pye -- ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)