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Hereditary portion of a personal name
In many societies, a surname or family name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined
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or composite) and two surnames (the first surname of each parent). Traditionally, the first surname is the father's first surname, and the second is the
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Most populous family names by continent
surnames by continent: List of most common surnames in African countries List of most common surnames in Asian countries List of most common surnames
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Japanese surnames (姓, sei), as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written
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is a common Chinese-language surname 陳 or 陈, and one of the most common surnames in Asia. It is the most common surname in Taiwan (2010) and Singapore
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Smith is an occupational surname originating in England. It is the most prevalent surname in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, and
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Surnames used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups
Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the Western tradition in which surnames are given last. Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are currently in use,
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These are lists of the most common Chinese surnames in the People's Republic of China (Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China), the Republic of China (Taiwan)
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Family name that combines two family names
double-barrelled name or double-barrelled surname, also called a double surname or a hyphenated surname, is a type of compound surname, typically featuring two words
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at least one personal name, the mother's family surname and the father's family surname. A last surname without prepositions tends to exist in formal greetings
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Family name that relates to a location
A toponymic surname or a habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name, which included names of specific locations, such
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English-language family name
English-language surname. It was the 19th most common surname in Ireland in 1901 with 15,417 members. It is the 34th most common surname in Australia, 32nd
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East Asian family name
of surnames of East Asian origin, for each of which "To" (without any diacritical mark) is at least an occasional variant. Tô is a Vietnamese surname (Chữ
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Family name
Davis is a surname of Welsh origin. It may be a corruption of Dyfed. Dyfed is recorded as a surname as late as the twelfth century, e.g. Gwynfard Dyfed
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Chinese surname
the third most common surname in China and Taiwan (commonly spelled as Chang in Taiwan), and it is one of the most common surnames in the world. It is spoken
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Family name
Ji is the pinyin romanization of a number of distinct Chinese surnames that are written with different characters in Chinese. Depending on the character
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Korean family name (임)
Im or Lim (Korean: 임) is a common Korean family name. The surname is identical to the Chinese character of the same name. According to the initial law
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The surname Whiting is of Saxon origin meaning 'the white or fair offspring'. The Saxon suffix "-ing" denotes 'son of' or 'offspring'. It is a patronymic
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Irish name consists of a given name and a surname. In the Irish language, most surnames are patronymic surnames (distinct from patronyms, which are seen
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Family name
Kundu is a surname. The surname is mainly found among the Bengali Hindus and some other communities of India. The surname Kundu is primarily found in Bengal
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Chinese surname
is the pinyin transliteration of the Chinese surname 吳 (Simplified Chinese 吴), which is a common surname (family name) in Mainland China. Wú (吳) is the
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Miller and Millar are surnames of English, German, Irish, Scottish or Yiddish origin. Miller is a common surname in: the United States (where it is the
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Thai naming conventions and laws in Thailand
Prior to the promulgation of the Surname Act of 1913 by King Vajiravudh (Rama VI), inhabitants of Siam did not have surnames, identifying themselves instead
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Romanization of common Chinese surname
Chinese surname 王 (Wáng). It has a mixture of various origin with uncertain lineage of family history. It is currently the most common surname in Mainland
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Family name
Wood is a surname in the English language. It is common throughout the world, especially countries with historical links to Great Britain. For the most
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Fixed surnames were adopted in Wales from the 15th century onwards. Until then, the Welsh had a patronymic naming system. In 1292, 48 per cent of Welsh
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name. It is the sixth most common surname in mainland China. It is the 16th surname on the Hundred Family Surnames text. The Yang clan was founded by
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García is an Iberian surname common throughout Spain, Portugal, Galicia, Andorra, the Americas, France and the Philippines. It is a surname of patronymic origin;
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list of Korean surnames, in Hangul alphabetical order. See Korean name § Surnames for an explanation. The most common Korean surname (particularly in
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Dhar is an Indian surname. It is commonly found among the Hindu Bengali Kayastha and Baniks including Subarnabanik community in Bengal region. Dhar or
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Martínez is a common surname in the Spanish language. Martínez is the most common surname in the Spanish regions of Navarre, La Rioja, Cuenca and Murcia
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(/ˈhwɑːŋ/; traditional Chinese: 黃; simplified Chinese: 黄) is a Chinese surname. While Huáng is the pinyin romanization of the word, it may also be romanized
Huang_(surname)
Indic surname
title was usually hereditary and so, in modern times, the term is a common surname for both males and females. The word "mandal" has various meanings depending
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Spanish surname of Germanic origin, the second most common (2.16% of the population) in Spain, as well as one of the five most common surnames in Argentina
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Naming conventions in Bengali culture
a surname. While the given name is usually gender-specific, the citation of the name generally follows the "Western order" of "given name, surname". This
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(Chinese: 阿熱; pinyin: Ārè), also rendered as Aro and Aje, is a Chinese surname with origins in the Western Regions. The Biographies of the Huigu from
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Topics referred to by the same term
(lit. "Long River"), China Long, Somme, France Long (Chinese surname) Long (Western surname) Long (Bloody Roar), in the video game series Long, Aeon of
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Wilson is a British and Irish surname, common in the English-speaking world, with several distinct origins. The name is derived from a patronymic form
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Vietnamese surname
sometimes abbreviated as Ng̃) is the most common surname among Vietnamese people. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as
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The surname Ray has several origins. In some cases it originates from a nickname, derived from the Old French rei, roy, meaning "king", which was sometimes
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Traditional naming system in Vietnam
tên) generally consist of two components including a surname followed by a given name: A surname most is a monosyllable and normally patrilineal, although
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Hall is a surname of Anglo-Celtic origin. The first bearers of the surname Hall came to England in the great wave of migration that followed the Norman
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This article contains lists of the most common surnames in most of the countries of Europe, including Armenia, Kosovo, and five transcontinental countries
List of most common surnames in European countries
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up Khan or khan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Khan (/xɑːn/) is a surname of Turkic and Mongolian origin, used as a title in various global regions
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Chinese family name
a Chinese surname, accounting for 0.26% of the Han Chinese population. It is the 52nd most common Chinese surname and is the 141st surname listed in the
Jiāng_(surname_江)
Family name
Lynch is an Anglo-Normans surname of English and Irish origin. In England, the surname is derived from the Norman-French de Lench and Kentish hlinc (meaning
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isimler) and a soyadı or soyisim (surname). Turkish names exist in a "full name" format. While there is only one soyadı (surname) in the full name there may
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Chinese family name
Jǐ (or Jì) is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 纪 in simplified Chinese and 紀 in traditional Chinese. It is romanized as
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(traditional Chinese: 賴; simplified Chinese: 赖; pinyin: Lài) is a common Chinese surname that is pronounced similarly in both Mandarin, Hakka dialect and also in
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the English spelling of a Chinese surname. During the Zhou dynasty, Wei (state) (魏) the Ji family acquired the surname Wèi (魏). During the Northern Wei
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Pillay, (IPA: [piɭːai̯]) meaning "Child of King" (Prince) or "Child", is a surname or title found among the Malayalam and Tamil speaking people of India and
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person consists of three parts: given name, patronymic, and family name (surname), according to the Eastern Slavic naming customs, similar to Russian names
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Personal name component related to the mother
equivalent of a patronymic. Around the world, matronymic surnames are far less common than patronymic surnames. In some cultures in the past, matronymic last names
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dictionary. Hill is a surname of English and Scottish origin, meaning "a person who lived on a hill". It is the 36th most common surname in England, the 18th
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Chinese surnames romanized as Li or Lee: Li (surname 李) or Lee (Hanzi 李), a common Chinese surname Li (surname 利) or Lee (Hanzi 利), a Chinese surname Lý (Vietnamese
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Rogers is an English patronymic surname deriving from the given name of Roger commonly used by the Normans and meaning "son of Roger". Variants include
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Persian names consist of a given name (Persian: نام, nâm) and a surname or family name (نام خانوادگی, nâm-e khânevâdegi). Given names may be simple or
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Jackson (/ˈdʒæksən/) is a common surname of English origin. In 1980, Jackson was the 24th most common surname in England and Wales. In the 1990 United
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Portillo is a surname of Castilian origin, specifically San Vicente de la Barquera in Santander, Spain. Portillo literally means "small port", from Latin
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English-language surname in origin chiefly descriptive of a person with brown hair, complexion or clothing. It is one of the most common surnames in English-speaking
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feminine: Müllerová) is a German-language surname, meaning 'miller' (as a profession). It is the most common family surname in Germany, Switzerland, and the French
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Family name
English surname, originating from the Old French word despensier, meaning dispenser or steward. In medieval England, it was a title/status surname, representing
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given name (prenume) and a family name (surname) (nume or nume de familie). In official documents, surnames usually appear before given names. Romanians
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Personal names used in, or originating in, England
and a (most commonly patrilineal, rarely matrilineal) family name or surname, also referred to as a last name. The given names after the first are often
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Fox is a surname originating in England and Ireland. Variants include Foxe and Foxx. The Fox surname in England comes from the Middle English identical
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Spanish-language patronymic surname of Visigothic origin (meaning literally Son of Rodrigo; Germanic: Roderickson) and a common surname in Spain and Latin America
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The surname Cox is of English or Welsh origin, and may have originated independently in several places in Great Britain, with the variations arriving
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language surname, usually of Irish and Welsh origin. Hughes is an Anglicized spelling of the Welsh and Irish patronymic surname. The surname may also
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Oliveira is a Portuguese (and Galician) surname, used in Portuguese-speaking countries, especially former Portuguese and Spanish colonies. Its origin
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of the Chinese surnames Huang (traditional Chinese: 黃; simplified Chinese: 黄) and Wang (Chinese: 王), two ubiquitous Chinese surnames; Wang (Chinese:
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Seo is a Korean and Japanese surname. As a Korean surname, Seo is the most frequent romanization, but it may also be romanized as Suh, Surh, Sur, Seoh
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Flores is a Spanish, Italian and Portuguese surname. In Spain, the surname Flores is first found in the Kingdom of Asturias, where the Visigothic royal
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Walsh (Irish: Breathnach) is a common Irish surname. It derives from a Middle English variant of the word "Welsh", and originally denoted a Welsh speaker
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Look up Thomas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Thomas is a common surname of English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, French, German, Dutch, and Danish origin
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Palmer Candy Company Bing (German surname), a German-language surname Bing (Chinese surname) (邴), a Chinese surname Bing Prefecture, an ancient Chinese
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kaplan is a surname that is of ultimately Latin origins. There is a Turkish surname of different origin. In European languages
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Lyons is a surname with several origins. It is the name of an Anglo-Norman landed gentry family descended from Ingelram de Lyons The Elder, who arrived
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surname of either Old English or Old Gaelic origin, common in English-speaking countries. The Old English name derives from an occupational surname for
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Chinese surname with multiple characters
A Chinese compound surname is a Chinese surname using more than one character. Many of these compound surnames derive from Zhou dynasty Chinese noble
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nome) and a surname (cognome); in most contexts, the given name is written before the surname, although in official documents, the surname may be written
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Fuchs (Czech feminine: Fuchsová) is a surname, meaning 'fox' in German and Yiddish. Variants of the surname include Fux and Fuks. In the mediaeval times
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The Corrigan (O'Corrigan, Carrigan, Corocan, Courigan, Currigan) surname is of Irish origin. Corrigan means a "Spear" in Irish. It is believed to have
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Günzburg is a surname of Swabian origin. Ginsberg, Ginsburg, Gensburg, Ginsburgh, Ginzberg, Ginzborg, and Ginzburg are variants of the surname. The Günzburg
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Lévy is a surname generally of Hebrew origin. Another spelling of the surname—among multiple other spellings—is Levi or Lévi. The surname usually refers
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([lǐn]; Chinese: 林; pinyin: Lín) is the Mandarin romanization of the Chinese surname written 林, which has many variations depending on the language and is also
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Cuinn. The latter surname means "descendant of Conn". The surname Quinn is also rendered Ó Cuinn or Mac Cuinn in Irish. The surname is borne by several
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Czech names are composed of a given name and a family name (surname). Czechs typically get one given name – additional names may be chosen by themselves
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Chinese surnames: 朱, 祝, 竺, 猪 and 諸. The most prominent of the five, Zhu (朱), is the 17th name in the Hundred Family Surnames poem and was the surname of the
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Griffin is a surname of primarily Irish origin. Griffin was the 75th most common surname on the island of Ireland in 1891. It was estimated in 2000 that
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Surnames whose bearers are Jews
Jewish surnames are family names used by Jews and those of Jewish origin. Jewish surnames are thought to be of comparatively recent origin; the first known
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Will is a surname found in the English-speaking world. People with this surname include: Clifford Martin Will (born 1946), Canadian-born mathematical
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consist of a given name and surname. Slovakia uses the Western name order with the given name being listed before surname. However, there is a historical
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is a romanization of several East Asian surnames and a common Vietnamese surname. It is a fairly common surname in the United States, ranked 975th during
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Morris is a surname of various origins, though mostly of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh origins. In 2014, the surname ranked 39 out of 104,537 in
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Jones is a surname of English and Welsh origin derived from the personal name Jone (a variant of John) and the genitive ending -s. It is particularly
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in ancient China Yu (Chinese surname) (余, 于, 魚/鱼, 漁/渔, 楀, 喻, 兪, 於, 遇, 虞, 郁, 尉, 禹, 游, 尤, 庾, 娛/娱) List of people with surname Yu Yu (Chinese given name) Yū
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a surname in various cultures. It may be a transcription of several Chinese surnames in their Cantonese or Teochew pronunciations, a Dutch surname, a
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Index of articles associated with the same name
Si is the pinyin romanization of a number of distinct Chinese surnames that are written with different characters in Chinese. Depending on the character
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language. Serbian names are rendered in the "Western name order" with the surname placed after the given name. "Eastern name order" may be used when multiple
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Spanish surname of Germanic origin, a patronymic meaning "son of Álvaro". Its Portuguese equivalent is Álvares. Notable people with the surname include:
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travel, tourism, insurance
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Americanized form of any of the numerous Continental European surnames derived from Latin Cornelius (see Cornelius), for example French Corneille or German Kornel.Swedish
Americanized form of any of the numerous Continental European surnames derived from Latin Cornelius (see Cornelius), for example French Corneille or German Kornel.Swedish : Latinized form of Horn, meaning ‘horn’; probably a soldier’s name.English : reduced form of Cornwell or of Cornhill, a habitational name from a place in Northumberland named Cornhill, from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ + halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’; or from Cornhill in London, a medieval grain exchange, named with Old English corn ‘corn’, ‘grain’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from some other place elsewhere similarly named.Ezra Cornell (1807–74), the founder of Cornell University, was born of New England Quaker stock in Westchester Co., NY, a descendant of Thomas Cornell of Saffron Walden, Essex, England, who emigrated sometime before 1642, when he is recorded as being married in Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI.
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English
English : of uncertain origin; possibly from a reduced form of the personal name Dominick.Chinese : from the name of Meng Mingshi, a senior minister of the state of Qin in the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc). His descendants adopted the first character of his given name, which means ‘bright’, as their surname.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the various places so called, for example in Devon, Kent, and West Yorkshire. According to Ekwall, the first element of these place names is respectively Old English (ge)mǣre ‘boundary’, myrig ‘pleasant’, and mearð ‘(pine) marten’. The second element in each case is Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This surname was taken to Ireland by a Northumbrian family who settled there in the 17th century.
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Probably an Americanized spelling of the Swiss German surname Bunz (see Bunce).English
Probably an Americanized spelling of the Swiss German surname Bunz (see Bunce).English : possibly a variant of Bunt.
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English, French, Danish, Dutch, and German
English, French, Danish, Dutch, and German : from a short form of the personal name Matthias (see Matthew) or any of its many cognates, for example Norman French Maheu.English, French, Dutch, and German : from a nickname or personal name taken from the month of May (Middle English, Old French mai, Middle High German meie, from Latin Maius (mensis), from Maia, a minor Roman goddess of fertility). This name was sometimes bestowed on someone born or baptized in the month of May; it was also used to refer to someone of a sunny disposition, or who had some anecdotal connection with the month of May, such as owing a feudal obligation then.English : nickname from Middle English may ‘young man or woman’.Irish (Connacht and Midlands) : when not of English origin (see 1–3 above), this is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Miadhaigh ‘descendant of Miadhach’, a personal name or byname meaning ‘honorable’, ‘proud’.French : habitational name from any of various places called May or Le May.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Mayen, a place in western Germany.Americanized spelling of cognates of 1 in various European languages, for example Swedish Ma(i)j.Chinese : possibly a variant of Mei 1, although this spelling occurs more often for the given name than for the surname.Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, is named after the Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobsen May.
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Probably a shortened form of an unidentified Jewish surname.English
Probably a shortened form of an unidentified Jewish surname.English : variant of Lass 3.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : status name or occupational name from Middle English, Old French maresc(h)al ‘marshal’. The term is of Germanic origin (compare Old High German marah ‘horse’, ‘mare’ + scalc ‘servant’). Originally it denoted a man who looked after horses, but by the heyday of medieval surname formation it denoted on the one hand one of the most important servants in a great household (in the royal household a high official of state, one with military responsibilities), and on the other a humble shoeing smith or farrier. It was also an occupational name for a medieval court officer responsible for the custody of prisoners. An even wider range of meanings is found in some other languages: compare for example Polish Marszałek (see Marszalek). The surname is also borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.As the fourth chief justice of the U.S., John Marshall (1755–1835) was the principal architect in consolidating and defining the powers of the Supreme Court. He was a descendant of John Marshall of Ireland, who settled in Culpeper Co., VA, sometime before 1655.
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English
English : status name for a mayor, Middle English, Old French mair(e) (from Latin maior ‘greater’, ‘superior’; compare Mayor). In France the title denoted various minor local officials, and the same is true of Scotland (see Mair 1). In England, however, the term was normally restricted to the chief officer of a borough, and the surname may have been given not only to a citizen of some standing who had held this office, but also as a nickname to a pompous or officious person.German and Dutch : variant of Meyer 1.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Meyer 2.
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English
English : occupational name for a mower or reaper of grass or hay, Old English mǣðere. Compare Mead, Mower. Hay was formerly of great importance, not only as feed for animals in winter but also for bedding.English : in southern Lancashire, where it has long been a common surname, it is probably a relatively late development of Madder (see Mader).English : The prominent Mather family of New England were established in America by Richard Mather (1596–1669) in 1635. He was a Puritan clergyman from a well-established family of Lowton, Lancashire, England. After he emigrated, he was in great demand as a preacher, finally settling in Dorchester, MA. His son Increase Mather (1639–1723) was a diplomat and president of Harvard. He married his step-sister Maria Cotton, herself the daughter of an eminent Puritan divine, John Cotton. Their son Cotton Mather (1663–1728) bore both family names. The latter was a minister who is remembered for his part in witchcraft trials, but he was also a man of science and a fellow of the Royal Society in London.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : nickname for someone who behaved in a masterful manner, or an occupational name for someone who was master of his craft or a schoolmaster, from Middle English maister (Old French maistre, Latin magister). In early instances this surname was often borne by people who were franklins or other substantial freeholders, presumably because they had laborers under them to work their lands. In Scotland Master was the title given to administrators of medieval hospitals, as well as being born by the eldest sons of barons; thus, the surname may also have been acquired as a metonymic occupational name by someone in the service of such.Either a dialect form or an Americanized form of German Meister.Indian (Gujarat and Bombay city) : Parsi occupational name for someone who was a master of his craft, from the English word master.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : from the Middle English personal name Ma(t)thew, vernacular form of the Greek New Testament name Matthias, Matthaios, which is ultimately from the Hebrew personal name Matityahu ‘gift of God’. This was taken into Latin as Mat(t)hias and Matthaeus respectively, the former being used for the twelfth apostle (who replaced Judas Iscariot) and the latter for the author of the first Gospel. In many European languages this distinction is reflected in different surname forms. The commonest vernacular forms of the personal name, including English Matthew, Old French Matheu, Spanish Mateo, Italian Matteo, Portuguese Mateus, Catalan and Occitan Mateu are generally derived from the form Matthaeus. The American surname Matthew has also absorbed European cognates from other languages, including Greek Mathias and Mattheos.It is found as a personal name among Christians in India, and in the U.S. is used as a family name among families from southern India.
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English
English : habitational name from places so named in Staffordshire and Sussex. The former was named in Old English as ‘open country (feld) where madder (mæddre) grows’, while the latter was named as ‘open country where mayweed (mægðe) grows’. The surname is now most common in Nottinghamshire.
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Reduced form of the Dutch surname van Galen, a habitational name, probably from Gaal in the province of North Brabant, or perhaps from the German town of Gahlen in North Rhine-Westphalia.English
Reduced form of the Dutch surname van Galen, a habitational name, probably from Gaal in the province of North Brabant, or perhaps from the German town of Gahlen in North Rhine-Westphalia.English : variant of Galyon.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in North Yorkshire called Masongill. The surname has died out in England.
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English, German, Dutch, and Jewish
English, German, Dutch, and Jewish : from the personal name Michael, ultimately from Hebrew Micha-el ‘Who is like God?’. This was borne by various minor Biblical characters and by one of the archangels, the protector of Israel (Daniel 10:13, 12:1; Rev. 12:7). In Christian tradition, Michael was regarded as the warrior archangel, conqueror of Satan, and the personal name was correspondingly popular throughout Europe, especially in knightly and military families. In English-speaking countries, this surname is also found as an Anglicized form of several Greek surnames having Michael as their root, for example Papamichaelis ‘Michael the priest’ and patronymics such as Michaelopoulos.
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Jewish (from Poland)
Jewish (from Poland) : Polish spelling of the occupational surname Mintzer ‘moneyer’.English : unexplained. Perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a butcher, a cook, or a warrior, from a derivative of Middle English mince(n) ‘to mince’, ‘to cut into small pieces’.
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English and Scottish (of Norman origin) and French
English and Scottish (of Norman origin) and French : habitational name from any of various places in northern France which get their names from the Gallo-Roman personal name Maccius + the locative suffix -acum.English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Marcy in La Manche. This surname is preserved in the English place name Stondon Massey.English : from a pet form of Matthew.Altered spelling of French Massé (see Masse 4).
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English and Irish
English and Irish : of uncertain origin; most probably an altered form of Mowbray. It is also found as Maybury, which has the form of an English habitational name. There is a place near Woking in Surrey so called; however, this is not recorded until 1885 and is probably derived from the surname. In England this surname is found mainly in the West Midlands; it has also spread into Wales. In Ireland this form is common in Ulster; MacLysaght records that it was taken there from England in the 17th century.
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English (Norfolk) : habitational name from Madehurst in Sussex, which gets its name from Old English mǣd ‘meadow’ (see Mead 1) + hyrst ‘wooded hill’. This place name appears in 12th-century records in the Normanized form Medl(i)ers. The surname is found in Norfolk as early as the 13th century in the form de Medlers; the landowning family that bore it was in vassalage to the Earl of Surrey, who had large estates in both Sussex and Norfolk.
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English, Scottish, Irish, French, Dutch, German, Czech, Slovak, Spanish (MartÃn), Italian (Venice), etc.
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Dutch, German, Czech, Slovak, Spanish (MartÃn), Italian (Venice), etc. : from a personal name (Latin Martinus, a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’). This was borne by a famous 4th-century saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. As a North American surname, this form has absorbed many cognates from other European forms.English : habitational name from any of several places so called, principally in Hampshire, Lincolnshire, and Worcestershire, named in Old English as ‘settlement by a lake’ (from mere or mær ‘pool’, ‘lake’ + tÅ«n ‘settlement’) or as ‘settlement by a boundary’ (from (ge)mære ‘boundary’ + tÅ«n ‘settlement’). The place name has been charged from Marton under the influence of the personal name Martin.
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