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  2. Category:Surnames of English origin - Wikipedia

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    Surnames of English origin. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Surnames of British Isles origin . It includes Surnames of British Isles origin that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.

  3. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    E – "and", between surnames (Maria Eduarda de Canto e Mello) [citation needed] Fitz – (Irish, from Norman French) "son of", from Latin " filius" meaning "son" (mistakenly thought to mean illegitimate son, because of its use for certain illegitimate sons of English kings) [citation needed]

  4. Category:Surnames of Old English origin - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Surnames of Old English origin" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total. ... Selwyn (name) Sharpe (surname) Snowsill; Stan ...

  5. Surname - Wikipedia

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    In English and other languages, although the usual order of names is "first middle last", for the purpose of cataloging in libraries and in citing the names of authors in scholarly papers, the order is changed to "last, first middle," with the last and first names separated by a comma, and items are alphabetized by the last name.

  6. English name - Wikipedia

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    English names are personal names used in, or originating in, England.In England, as elsewhere in the English-speaking world, a complete name usually consists of one or more given names, commonly referred to as first names, and a (most commonly patrilineal, rarely matrilineal) family name or surname, also referred to as a last name.

  7. Rodgers - Wikipedia

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    The name Rodger is of Old German origin and is likely derived from the Germanic name Hrodger meaning "famous spear", composed of the elements hruod "fame" and ger "spear". [ 2 ] In England, the name Rodger could’ve derived from the pre-7th century Old English name Hrothgar , which means 'fame spear' ("hroð" fame or renown, "gari" spear), the ...

  8. Category:English-language occupational surnames - Wikipedia

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    C. Canner (surname) Carder (surname) Carpender; Carpenter (surname) Carter (name) Cartwright (surname) Chalmers (surname) Chamberlain (surname) Chamberlayne (surname)

  9. Ward (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Ward is a surname of either Old English or Old Gaelic origin, common in English-speaking countries. The Old English name derives from an occupational surname for a civil guard/keeper of the watch, or alternately as a topographical surname from the word werd ("marsh").

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