enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Surname - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname

    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that ... and surname origins (Dictionary of American ...

  3. Category:Surnames - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Surnames

    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wiktionary; ... Surnames of Jewish origin (10 C, 1,477 P) N. Surnames from nicknames (559 P) O.

  4. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_family_name_affixes

    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).

  5. List of Scottish Gaelic surnames - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scottish_Gaelic...

    This list of Scottish Gaelic surnames shows Scottish Gaelic surnames beside their English language equivalent. Unlike English surnames (but in the same way as Slavic, Lithuanian and Latvian surnames), all of these have male and female forms depending on the bearer, e.g. all Mac- names become Nic- if the person is female.

  6. Category:English-language surnames - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English-language...

    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Surnames of English origin (3 C, 721 P) L. Surnames of Lowland Scottish origin (1 C, 66 P)

  7. Ethnonymic surname - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnonymic_surname

    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.

  8. Onomastics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomastics

    Onomastics has applications in data mining, with applications such as named-entity recognition, or recognition of the origin of names. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a popular approach in historical research, where it can be used to identify ethnic minorities within populations [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and for the purpose of prosopography .

  9. Category:Surnames of English origin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Surnames_of...

    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.