Webber (surname)
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
- A.R.F. Webber, Trinidadian writer
- Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer
- Chris Webber, American basketball player
- Charles Wilkins Webber (1819–1856), American journalist and explorer
- Danny Webber, English footballer
- Darren Webber (born 1981), Australian politician
- Diane Webber, American model and actress
- Elizabeth Webber, fictional character in TV series General Hospital
- George W. Webber (1825–1900), U.S. Representative
- Gordon Webber (1912–1986), American writer
- Herbert John Webber (1865–1946), American plant physiologist
- John Webber (1752–1793), Swiss-English painter
- Jules C. Webber (1838-1872), American Civil War brevet brigadier general
- Mark Webber (disambiguation), several people
- Michael Webber (born 1971), American mechanical engineer
- Michael Webber (priest), Dean of Hobart
- Melvin M. Webber (1920–2006), American urban designer and theorist
- Peter Webber, British film director
- Rob Webber, English rugby union player
- Robert Webber, American actor
- Robert E. Webber, American theologian
- Ruth Webber, Australian politician
- Samuel Webber (1759–1810), American clergyman, mathematician and academic
- Sharon Webber, American surfer
- Sian Webber, British actress
- Stephen Webber (born 1983), American politician
- Steve Webber, American baseball coach
See also
- Lloyd Webber, a surname
- Paine Webber, an American company
- Weber (surname)
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References
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (1988). A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mark Antony Lower (1844). English Surnames: Essays on Family Nomenclature, historical etymological and humorous. John Russell Smith. p. 95.
- ^ Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1815). English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations (4 ed.). Chatto and Windus. p. 321.
- ^ The Ladies' Repository, Volume 36. L. Swormstedt and J.H. Power. 1876. p. 276.
- ^ Mark Antony Lower (1844). English Surnames: Essays on Family Nomenclature, historical etymological and humorous. John Russell Smith. p. 92.
- ^ University of the State of New York (1881). Annual Report of the Regents, Volume 94. p. 623.