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When a name is biblical and of Hebrew origin, too, Rybakin boldly goes where few lexicographers have gone before and gives the actual Hebrew (albeit in Roman transliteration).
Rybakin's range of names is comprehensive.
Rybakin's etymologies are mostly quite sound and accord with current scholarship.
In a bare six and a half pages Rybakin takes us on a crash course in the history of English first names, from Anglo-Saxon Æthelbeald to the titlederived names of modern times such as Duke and Earl . He rightly devotes part of his survey to a consideration of surnames as first names, although in his main entries names of this type such as Bradley, Chester, Clifford, and Seymour are simply explained as deriving `from the surname.
But maybe Rybakin felt that thus far is far enough, and that for surname origins the reader is best advised to consult a different dictionary, such as his own.