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Ethnonymic surnames are surnames or bynames that originate from ethnonyms.They may originate from nicknames based on the descent of a person from a given ethnic group. Other reasons could be that a person came to a particular place from the area with different ethnic prevalence, from owing a property in such area, or had a considerable contact with persons or area of other ethnicity.
Kuykendall is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Andrew J. Kuykendall (1815–1891), American politician; Bobby Dall, born Robert Harry Kuykendall (born 1963), American bass player in the rock band Poison; Dan Kuykendall (1924–2008), American politician and businessman; Fulton Kuykendall (1953–2024), American football player
Uexküll was originally a Bremen noble family von Bardewisch, first appeared in written documents on 26 July 1229, whose lineage can be traced to several places, the earliest originating in Stedingen, and later Old Livonia (modern Estonia and Latvia), Sweden, Württemberg, and Baden.
The surname Kendall, Kendl, or Kendal (also spelt Kendell, Kendoll, Kendel, Kendle, Kindell, Kindel, or Kindle) has two widely accepted origins. The first is from the market town of Kendal in Cumbria. The earliest recorded form of this town's name is in 1095 as Kircabikendala, literally "Church by Kent dale".
An avid record collector from a young age, Kuykendall would listen to country and bluegrass music on the WARL, WGAY and WWVA radio stations. His mother was a piano teacher and Kuykendall played clarinet in his junior and high school concert bands. He learned to play all the bluegrass instruments, but his primary instrument is the five-string banjo.
Afrikaans; العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца)
The builders, Nathaniel Kuykendall and his son Isaac, were migrants of Dutch origin from New York, and the house they built is architecturally unusual for its Dutch-influenced Federal and Greek Revival architecture, and for its use of stone, at a time when most houses in the area were of log constructions.
O'Connell is a noble surname of Irish origin. [1] It is an anglicisation of the Irish Ó Conaill (meaning "descendant of Conall"). [1] The personal name Conall is composed of the elements con (from cú meaning "hound") and gal (meaning "valour"). [1] The O'Connell family were a noted clan of Derrynane, Munster.