Watson

Gender: Masculine
Usage: English

Meaning

From an English surname meaning “son of Wat”. A famous fictional bearer of the surname was Dr. Watson, the assistant to Sherlock Holmes in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery stories beginning in 1887.
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