Faunt, aphetic for Anglo-Fr. enfaunt, is common in Mid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

French aphetic forms, but the first two are also from Old French forms of Matthew, and Masson is sometimes an alternative form of Mason.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

The scarcity of Groser, grocer, is not surprising, for the word, aphetic for engrosser, originally meaning a wholesale dealer, one who sold en gros, is of comparatively late occurrence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

(apothecary), which had in early Scottish the aphetic forms Poticar, potigar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

Colon, dim. of Cot, aphetic for Jacot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

Philpot, whence the aphetic Pott, Potts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

(Mac Lucas), we have aphetic forms of Mac.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

The French surname Rançon is probably aphetic for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

Bennet, an exorcist, and Collet, aphetic for acolyte.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

The fine arts are represented by Limmer, for limner, a painter, an aphetic form of illumines, and Tickner is perhaps from Dutch tekener, draughtsman, cognate with Eng, token, while the art of self-defence has given us the name Scrimgeoure, with a number of corruptions, including the local-looking Skrimshire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference