Silver
An English surname originating as an occupation for a silversmith or a rich man, or for someone having silvery gray hair or living by a silvery brook.
Proper noun
- An English surname originating as an occupation for a silversmith or a rich man, or for someone having silvery gray hair or living by a silvery brook.
- A surname from German.
- A unisex given name from English from the metal, or transferred from the surname.
- " - - - I'll level with you, Mr. Cummings." "Silver", he corrected. "Sounds like the Lone Ranger's horse," she said. - 1993, Ed McBain, Mischief, William Morrow and Co., →ISBN, page 67:
- "Silver here, my darling wife, insists on the services of a particular yacht upholsterer. - - - " From the way he said the woman's metal name Quayle thought it was changed from a stodgier "Alice" or "Bernice". - 1993,...
Origin
As a surname, anglicised from the German Jewish ornamental surname Silber.