US Presidents by Surnames' Meaning and Origin

You are given the meanings and languages of origin of the surnames of several US Presidents. Will you guess them correctly?

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The names have often undergone development through various languages and meanings. For the purposes of this quiz, I've chosen the origin which would enable but not give away too easily the answer.

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Meaning	Origin	President
trusty man	Middle English	Harry Truman
one who uses a cart	English	Jimmy Carter
very famous	Germanic	Millard Fillmore
cliff land	Old English	Grover Cleveland
house of the canon	Gaelic	James Buchanan
settlement belonging to Wassa's people	English	George Washington
lake colony	Brythonic & Latin	Abraham Lincoln
from house, dwelling	Old Dutch	Martin Van Buren
drum	Middle High German	Donald Trump
tiler of roofs	Old English	John Tyler
rose field	Dutch	Franklin D. & Theodore Roosevelt
brave, hardy	Old English	Warren Harding
son of Nick	English	Richard Nixon
iron cutter	German	Dwight D. Eisenhower
grand, tall, large, great	Norman French	Ulysses S. Grant
crooked, bent	Luo	Barack Obama
triangle field	Old English	James Garfield
son of Fionnlagh	Scottish Gaelic	William McKinley

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