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Steel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A. G. Steel (1858–1914), English cricketer; Ace Steel (born 1973), ring name of Christopher Guy, American professional wrestler; Alan Steel (1935–2015), stage name of Sergio Ciani, Italian bodybuilder and actor; Alex Steel (1886–1954), Scottish footballer; Amy Steel (born 1960 ...
For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).
Poster in the Yishuv offering assistance to Palestinian Jews in choosing a Hebrew name for themselves, 2 December 1926. The Hebraization of surnames (also Hebraicization; [1] [2] Hebrew: עברות Ivrut) is the act of amending one's Jewish surname so that it originates from the Hebrew language, which was natively spoken by Jews and Samaritans until it died out of everyday use by around 200 CE.
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.
A. W. Steele (1862–1925), American political cartoonist; Aaron Steele (footballer, born 1983), English football player active in Canada Aaron Steele (footballer, born 1987), English football player for Brentford and Slough Town
Pages in category "Surnames of Jewish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,455 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
First/given/forename, middle, and last/family/surname with John Fitzgerald Kennedy as example. This shows a structure typical for Anglophonic cultures (and some others). Other cultures use other structures for full names. A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family.
Several surnames have multiple spellings; this is sometimes due to unrelated families bearing the same surname. A single surname in either language may have multiple translations in the other. In some English translations of the names, the M(a)c- prefix may be omitted in the English, e.g. Bain vs MacBain, Cowan vs MacCowan, Ritchie vs MacRitchie.