Webber (surname)

This article is about the surname Webber. For other uses, see Webber (disambiguation).

Webber (/ˈwɛbər/) is an English occupational surname meaning weaver.[1]

Etymology

Webber is an occupational surname referring to, "a maker of cloth".[2] The ending "er" generally denotes some employment, examples include Miller and Salter. The ending "er" is the masculine form whilst "ster", as in Webster, is the feminine form.[3][4][5][6]

Variants of the name include Weaver, Webbe, Webster and Weber, the German form of the name.[7][8]

Notable people with the surname Webber

See also

References

  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (1988). A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-211592-8.
  2. ^ Samuel Johnson (1818). Todd, Henry John (ed.). A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers: Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Volume 4. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
  3. ^ William Chauncey Fowler (1850). English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a History of Its Origin and Development ; Designed for Use in Colleges and Schools. Harper & Brothers, Publishers. p. 424.
  4. ^ Mark Antony Lower (1844). English Surnames: Essays on Family Nomenclature, historical etymological and humorous. John Russell Smith. p. 95.
  5. ^ Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1915). English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations (4th ed.). Chatto and Windus. p. 321.
  6. ^ The Ladies' Repository, Volume 36. L. Swormstedt and J.H. Power. 1876. p. 276.
  7. ^ Mark Antony Lower (1844). English Surnames: Essays on Family Nomenclature, historical etymological and humorous. John Russell Smith. p. 92.
  8. ^ University of the State of New York (1881). Annual Report of the Regents, Volume 94. p. 623.