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The common names Schmidt and Schmitz lead in the central German-speaking and eastern Low German-speaking areas. Meyer is particularly common in the Low German-speaking regions, especially in Lower Saxony (where it is more common than Müller). Bauer leads in eastern Upper German-speaking Bavaria. Rarer names tend to accumulate in the north and ...
Germanized family names (1 C, 1 P) ... Pages in category "German-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,631 total.
In the Nordic countries, von is common but not universal in the surnames of noble families of German origin and has occasionally been used as a part of names of ennobled families of native or foreign (but non-German) extraction, as with the family of the philosopher Georg Henrik von Wright, which is of Scottish origin, or as with the family of ...
Friedrich Weber (d. 1739) huntsman to the bishop of Bamberg, mayor of Marktleugast; Georg Michael Weber (d. 1822) Deputy Royal representative for Neuburg an der Donau, afterward Vice-representative in Amberg; Carl Adolph Weber Secretary of State to Ludwig I, raised to the Ritterstand in 1845; the mathematician Eduard Ritter von Weber (1870-1934).
Template:Family tree of the House of Nassau-Grimhuizen; Template:Family tree of the House of Nassau-Weilburg; Template:Family tree of the House of Nassau-Zuylestein; Template:Family tree of the House of Orange-Nassau; Fersen family; Finck von Finckenstein; Finckenstein; Van Foreest; House of Franckenstein; Fraunberg; Raitz von Frentz; Freytag ...
Pages in category "Surnames of German origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 593 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Germanized Slavic family names (12 P) I. Icelandic-language surnames (3 C, 12 P) L. Limburgian surnames (2 P) Low German surnames (87 P) Surnames of Luxembourgian ...
Sometimes von is also used in geographical names that are not noble, as in von Däniken. With family names originating locally, many names display particular characteristics of the local dialects, such as the south German, Austrian and Swiss diminutive endings -l-el, -erl, -le or -li as in Kleibl, Schäuble or Nägeli (from 'Nagel', nail). The ...