WATERS

Meaning

As a surname, Waters is generally understood as a habitational or topographic name for someone who lived by water, waterside, or streams. The provided excerpts also show a separate old etymological note on a related Germanic form, but they do not clearly establish Waters itself as a personal-name form from that source; for the given name, the safest reading is the familiar English place-and-landscape surname origin.

Origin

Fun fact

Waters is much more common as a surname than as a first name, which gives it a crisp, surname-style feel when used as a given name.