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Taylor is a surname of English origin. It is believed to have developed in England after the Norman invasion. Possibly coming from the Norman occupational surname (meaning tailor) in France. [1] [2] derived from the Old French tailleur ("cutter"), [3] which derived from the Catalan Tauler meaning cutting board, or the Galician Tello meaning tile.
Jewish surnames are thought to be of comparatively recent origin; [1]: 190 the first known Jewish family names date to the Middle Ages, in the 10th and 11th centuries. [ 2 ] Jews have some of the largest varieties of surnames among any ethnic group, owing to the geographically diverse Jewish diaspora , as well as cultural assimilation and the ...
The Jewish population peaked at 450,000, but has since declined due to low birth-rate, intermarriage and emigration, mainly of the younger generation to Israel. According to the 2001 census , the current population is around 295,000, most of whom live in London .
Apart from these original surnames, the surnames of Jewish people of the present have typically reflected family history and their ethnic group within the Jewish people. Sephardic communities began to take on surnames in the Middle Ages (specifically c.10th and 11th centuries), and these surnames reflect the languages spoken by the Sephardic ...
Jewish genealogy is the study of Jewish families and the tracing of their lineages and history. The Pentateuchal equivalent for "genealogies" is "toledot" (generations). In later Hebrew, as in Aramaic, the term and its derivatives "yiḥus" and "yuḥasin" recur with the implication of legitimacy or nobility of birth. [ 1 ]
Mia Taylor, a character from a Japanese multi-media idol project Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club; Michael Taylor, a character in the American television sitcom My Two Dads; Nancy Taylor, a character in the 1993 American fantasy comedy Groundhog Day; Opie Taylor, son of the aforementioned Sheriff Andy Taylor in The Andy Griffith Show
An ethnonym is the name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (where the name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms or endonyms (self-designation; where the name is created and used by the ethnic group itself).