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Swedish-language surnames (757 P) Pages in category "Sámi-language surnames" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Pekka Aikio (born 1944), Finnish Sami politician, president of the Sámi Parliament of Finland; Amoc (born 1984), Finnish Sámi rapper; Agneta Andersson (born 1958), Swedish Sámi sculptor and educator; Karen Anette Anti (born 1972), Norwegian Sámi politician; Aleksandra Andreevna Antonova (1932–2014), Russian, Kildin Sámi teacher, writer ...
Sami, Samy, Samee (Arabic: سامي sāmī) [ˈsæːmi, ˈsaː-, ˈsɛː-], is an Arabic male given name meaning "elevated (رَفْعَة raf‘ah)" or "sublime (سُمُوّ sumū/ sumuw)", [1] in fact stemmed from the verb samā (سما) which means "to transcend", where the verb forms the adjective Sami which means "to be high, elevated, eminent, prominent".
The act was modeled in part on Norwegian and Swedish policies on the ownership of reindeer by the Sami people of Sápmi. Many Sámi had recently arrived in Alaska to manage the reindeer in the 1930s. As a result of the act, Alaskan Sámi were required to sell their herds to the government at $3 per head.
Somby is a common Northern Sami surname. The name has most likely been made as a Norwegian language adapted variation based on the Sami town of Sombio (or Sompio) in the Kemi region of north Finland. The name has probably also risen from the personal male name like Sompia, Sompi, Sombie, Sombe, Sombby, Sombi, Sumby and Sobbe.
The surname traditions of Swedish-speaking farmers, fishermen and craftsmen resembles the West Finnish tradition, while smaller populations of Sami and Romani people have traditions of their own. Finland was exposed to a very small immigration from Russia, so Russian names barely exists.
The Sámi (/ ˈ s ɑː m i / SAH-mee; also spelled Sami or Saami) are the traditionally Sámi-speaking indigenous people inhabiting the region of Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.
Gauriloff, sometimes spelled Gaurilov, is a Skolt Saami surname originating in and around Suõʹnnʼjel, derived from the Skolt given name Kaurrâl, i.e. Gabriel. All total, 156 people, living or dead have had Gauriloff as their surname at some point in time. [1] Sometimes this spelling is also used in place of the Slavic surname Gavrilov.