meant that most families until modern times did not have surnames. Scandinavian patronyms were generally derived from the father's given name with the addition...

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Family name affixes are a clue for surname etymology and can sometimes determine the ethnic origin of a person. This is a partial list of affixes. Abu...

A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with...

of a German name for gender studies Onomastik: Names and Name meanings The site has information on the etymology of German family names as well as a...

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English-language country names with their etymologies. Some of these include notes on indigenous names and their etymologies. Countries in italics are...

Eilersen is a Nordic surname. It is related to Scandinavian family name etymology. Eiler Eilersen Hagerup (1718–1789), Norwegian theologian Eiler Rasmussen...

Anders is a male name in Scandinavian languages and Fering North Frisian, an equivalent of the Greek Andreas ("manly") and the English Andrew. It originated...

discovered in 1960; named for Bengt Strömgren Bengtsson, a Swedish family name originating in Bengt Scandinavian family name etymology This disambiguation...

mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings. In later Scandinavian folklore, trolls became beings in their...

Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages. Vol. 8. Turnhout: Brepols N.V. pp. 298, 301. ISBN 978-2503519005. Derksen, Rick (2008). Etymological Dictionary of...

given to more than a half-dozen members of Scandinavian royal houses. Oscar was the third most popular name for males born in Sweden in 2013 and is ranked...

no English at the time the band was formed. Hüsker Dü – Named after Hūsker Dū?, a Scandinavian memory-based board game that means (properly spelled as...

Recorded instances of similar names mirror this etymology. The 1031 AD Liber Vitae records the name Biuuuwulf. The name is attested to a monk from Durham...

Traditional Vietnamese personal names generally consist of three parts, used in Eastern name order. A family name (normally patrilineal, although matrilineality...

given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: The surname has a number of etymologies. As a surname of German and Scandinavian origin...

the name Isho in Aramaic and Yeshua in Hebrew, it is etymologically related to another biblical name, Joshua. The vocative form Jesu, from Latin Iesu, was...

name orlando by Online Etymology Dictionary". www.etymonline.com. Campbell, Mike. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Orlando". Behind the Name....

Lars is a common male name in Scandinavian countries. Lars means "from the city of Laurentum". Lars is derived from the Latin name Laurentius, which means...

etymologically related to the Sanskrit terms Mala (rosary), Mallika (jasmine) or Mayura (peacock) and is a unisex name or a surname, etymologically unrelated...

feminine given name found in Europe and North America. It is popular in Scandinavian countries, where it is pronounced Ee-da. The name has an ancient...

addition of the -h- the etymology is interpreted as the emphatic prefix regn- with hold, apparently meaning "solemnly loyal". This name was brought to the...

Frankenreich. The name of the Franks itself is said to come from the Proto-Germanic word *frankon which means "javelin, lance". Another proposed etymology is that...

Rus' names can be Slavic and, as for the Dnieper cataract Aeifar / Aeifor, its name doesn't have an acceptable and convincing Scandinavian etymology. At...

its popularity in various cultures, especially in English, German, and Scandinavian-speaking countries. In Romance languages such as French, Portuguese,...

origin. The name originates from an Anglo-Scandinavian combination of the personal name Trit and of the second element ton. The family name translates...

also be found as a family name with or without an affix (such as de Adel, den Adel, or van Adel). The earliest known woman with the name was Princess Adel...

The etymology of first names The Name Tradition In The Christian Culture Kate Monk's Onomastikon Names over the world throughout the history "Name" . Encyclopædia...