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 names...

linguistic similarity of Cornish, Welsh and Breton, some surnames can derive from any of the three regions. The most common surnames in Cornwall are derived from...

History of Welsh Surnames". The Wales Guidebook. Retrieved 20 August 2024. Cooper, John (21 March 2020). "The 50 most common Welsh surnames and how many...

surnames of Norse origin in the area now called the Danelaw. According to Origins of English Surnames and A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames:...

or Welsh surnames Richardson or Richards. The Russian equivalent of 'Smith', 'Jones', and 'Brown' (that is, the generic most often used surnames) are...

identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. Compound surnames can be composed...

the African American population has Welsh surnames. A possible factor leading to this is slaves adopting the surnames of their former masters, though evidence...

"Bevan". Some Welsh surnames, such as John or Howell, did not acquire the suffix "-s." In some other cases the suffix was affixed to the surname much later...

Welsh surnames commissioned by the Welsh Government found that 718,000 people (nearly 35% of the Welsh population) have a family name of Welsh origin...

Accessed 3 November 2019. "Surname Profiler". Ucl.ac.uk. 18 January 2006. Retrieved 8 October 2018. Bardsley. English and Welsh Surnames. 1901. Citation: Anderson...

UK surnames". Significance. 5 (4): 189–192. doi:10.1111/j.1740-9713.2008.00332.x. Word, David L.; et al. (2000). "Demographic Aspects of Surnames from...

or Welsh surnames Richardson or Richards. The Russian equivalent of 'Smith', 'Jones', and 'Brown' (that is, the generic most often used surnames) are...

word survives in Wales, Cornwall, Walloon, walnut, and in surnames Walsh and Wallace. "Welsh: the only Celtic language not classified as "endangered" by...

Welsh is a surname from the Old English language given to the Celtic Britons. The surname can also be the result of anglicization of the German cognate...

evolving into the Welsh surname Gough) became "fixed epithet" passed on through the generations and functioned as family surnames as early as the 14th...

Scottish surnames are surnames currently found in Scotland, or surnames that have a historical connection with the country. The earliest surnames found in...

with his nine sons, all of them on the harp. The Kale often adopted Welsh surnames. Traditionally, the Kale were nomadic, living in wagons and tents. Each...

Look up Welsh or welsh in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Welsh may refer to: Welsh, of or about Wales Welsh language, spoken in Wales Welsh people,...

Davis is a surname of English and Welsh origin. As an English surname it may be a corruption of Davy or a reference to King David in the Old Testament...

of the latter; many Welsh families came to do the same over the following centuries as the adoption of formal English-style surnames became more widespread...

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...

handbook of Cornish surnames "Cornish surnames E". Freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2013-07-15. "Campbell Surname Meaning and Distribution"...

placed surnames such as MacMurrough and MacCarthy, derived from patronymics, or O'Brien and O'Grady, derived from ancestral names. Gaelic surnames derived...

meaning 'noble-born'. According to T. J. Morgan and Prys Morgan in Welsh Surnames: "the name is a derivation of the Latin Eugenis > OW Ou[u]ein, Eug[u]ein ...

replaced by or transformed into patronymic surnames. Examples of such transformations include common English surnames such as Johnson (son of John). The usual...

Dictionary of Surnames. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1967. No ISBN. Hanks, Patricia and Hodges, Flavia. 1990. A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University...

HOW-əl, Welsh: [ˈhəu.ɛl]) is a surname and given name originating from Wales. As a surname, it is not particularly common among those of Welsh ancestry...

names). In Wales, many families have double-barrelled surnames. The preponderance of only a few surnames (such as Jones, Williams, and Davies) led to the usage...

Welsh mythology consists of both folk traditions developed in Wales, and traditions developed by the Celtic Britons elsewhere before the end of the first...

Vaughan and Vaughn are surnames, originally Welsh, though also used as a form of the Irish surname McMahon. Vaughan derives from the Welsh word bychan, meaning...