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2. Surname - Wikipedia

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   [34] [48] Also, Celtic origin of the name Arthur, meaning 'bear'. Other surnames may have arisen from more than one source: the name De Luca, for instance, likely arose either in or near Lucania or in the family of someone named Lucas or Lucius; [30] in some instances, however, the name may have arisen from Lucca, with the spelling and ...

3. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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   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).

4. Mitchell (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Mitchell or Mitchel is an English, Scottish and Irish surname with three etymological origins. In some cases, the name is derived from the Middle English and Old French (and Norman French) name Michel, a vernacular form of the name Michael. [1] The personal name Michael is ultimately derived from a Hebrew name, meaning "Who is like God". [2]

5. Newman - Wikipedia

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   Newman is a surname of Germanic Anglo-Saxon origins. Newman is the modern English form of the name used in Great Britain and among people of British ancestry around the world (as is 'Numan') , while Neumann (with variant spellings) is used in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, and to some degree in Netherlands and Belgium. [1]

6. Ethnonymic surname - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Lewis (surname) - Wikipedia

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   The surname Lewis is also an Anglicisation of several like-sounding Jewish surnames, [2] such as "Levy" or "Levi", and of the Arab form of the name "Elias". Lewis is the 4th most common surname in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 6th most common surname in Wales, 16th most common in Jamaica, 22nd most common in England, 24th most common in the ...