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Pages in category "English-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,391 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Surnames of English origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 722 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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An example is the German composer Johann Christian Bach, the "London Bach", who was known as "John Bach" after emigrating to England. [3] During the time in which there were large influxes of immigrants from Europe to the United States and United Kingdom during the 19th and 20th centuries, the given names and surnames of many immigrants were ...
Names play a variety of roles in the Bible. They sometimes relate to the nominee's role in a biblical narrative , as in the case of Nabal , a foolish man whose name means "fool". [ 1 ] Names in the Bible can represent human hopes, divine revelations , or are used to illustrate prophecies .
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Data can be viewed in the Corpus of Family Names in the Netherlands See specifically De top 100 van de familienamen in Nederland (Dutch) Names ending in -stra or -ma are usually of Frisian origin. For example, Terpstra, Bijlsma, Halsema. Names ending in -ink or -ing are usually of Low Saxon origin. For example, Hiddink, Meyerink, Mentink.
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