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Pages in category "Surnames of Old English origin" The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Surnames of English origin. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Surnames of British Isles origin . It includes Surnames of British Isles origin that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
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 .
Surnames of Old English origin (82 P) C. Celtic-language surnames (7 C, 12 P) E. Eliot family (3 C, 1 P) Surnames of English origin (3 C, 720 P) I.
Search for List of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) surnames in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. Start the List of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) surnames article , using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it ; but please remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary .
Much of the north of 9th century England was occupied by Norse invaders, who left behind descendants with Norse surnames. Norse invaders ruled much of northern England, in the 9th and 10th centuries, and left English surnames of Norse origin in the area now called the Danelaw. [1] [2]
It is a well-stirred mix of Old English, Middle English and Norman French, with some Norse and Celt, in which it is English that dominates. To see it in context, Norman French was the language of power and rank until Henry IV made English the tongue of kings at the end of the fourteenth century when most surnames already existed." [2]
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