What are the origins of these surnames?

[Sikeliot]

Not sure if they are spelled in their original forms but I am curious.. they are names I have seen but never asked.


Hanna
Nesom
Yelencsics
Flint
Barnatchez

[Sylvanus]

Yelencsics is hispanized version of hungaricized south-slavic name probably coz in hungary spelling of the south-slavic -ić ending [-itɕ]* is this or similar way f.e. Jellasics, Petrovics, Petrovity. Furthermore the Jelencsics and Jelenics occur among hungarian people and similar south-slavic names are very common.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voicele...atal_affricate

[Caeruleus]

Not sure if they are spelled in their original forms but I am curious.. they are names I have seen but never asked.


Hanna
Nesom
Yelencsics
Flint
Barnatchez

Hanna - Channah (hebrew) meaning favor, grace
Nesom - dont know but its kind of similar to the arabic Nasim wich means "breeze"
Yelencsics - might be a form of the hungarian Jolanka (good girl) or french Yolanda, Yolande (derived from latin viola - violet) or could be a form of Helen (wich is a greek name meaning torch)
Flint - dont know but could be related to Folant wich is the welsh form of Valentine (meaning strong, vigourous in latin)
Barnatchez - looks like a form of Bernard (germanic) meaning "brave bear"

[Sylvanus]

Yelencsics - might be a form of the hungarian Jolanka (good girl) or french Yolanda, Yolande (derived from latin viola - violet) or could be a form of Helen (wich is a greek name meaning torch)

In Romania do not south-slavic descendant live? Lol. Typical slavic name with typical slavic suffixe.

[Odoacer]

Hanna is Gaelic. Seems to have both Irish (primarily Ulster) & Scottish (where it is a variant of Hannay) bearers. William Hanna of Hanna-Barbera bore this name; his family was of Irish origin. Distribution maps show some concentrations in Sweden as well?

Nesom is maybe a variant of Newsome - ergo English, I suppose. The distribution maps I found seem to show that it originates in or around Yorkshire, which matches up with the data for Newsome.

Sylvanus is correct about Yelencsics, from what I can tell. I could only find it with a "Y" in the U.S., but Jelencsics showed up in Hungary & Austria.

Flint is English (it is an English word, after all), or potentially Welsh (Flint, Wales - but I don't know the etymology of the placename). Seems to be relatively common throughout Great Britain.

Not sure about Barnatchez. That seems to be a corrupt form of something Romance. I can only find it in Massachusetts, & they are apparently a Catholic family judging by this obit. French or Spanish in origin?

[Mikula]

Not sure if they are spelled in their original forms but I am curious.. they are names I have seen but never asked.

Yelencsics - Hungarian spelling of Croatian lastname Jelenčić