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With the arrival of Europeans, surnames were introduced and soon after a Māori surname system was devised where a person would take their father's name as a surname, for example: Ariki – Maunga Ariki – Waiora Maunga – Te Awa Waiora – Waipapa Te Awa. Māori would also have translations of their names, for example:
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No. Name Number of people Origin 1: Smith: 114,997: English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish 2: Jones: 55,679: Welsh, English, Scottish 3: Williams: 55,555: Welsh 4: Brown: 54,896
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The Polynesian population experienced a founder effect and genetic drift due to the small number of ancestors. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] As a result of the founder effect, Polynesians are distinctively different both genotypically and phenotypically from the parent population, due to the establishment of a new population by a very small number of ...
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