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Pages in category "Danish-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 354 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Danish toponymic surnames (1 P) Pages in category "Surnames of Danish origin" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect ...
The most common Danish family name surnames are patronymic and end in -sen; for example Rasmussen, originally meaning "son of Rasmus" (Rasmus' son).Descendants of Danish or Norwegian immigrants to the United States frequently have similar names ending in the suffix "-sen" or have changed the spelling to "-son".
Surnames of Danish origin (1 C, 36 P) F. Surnames of Finnish origin (1 C, 100 P) N. Surnames of Norwegian origin (1 C, 55 P) S. Surnames of Swedish origin (2 C, 60 P)
These different linguistic backgrounds are reflected in differing frequencies of surnames, as shown in the table below. On 31 December 1997 there were 316 295 different surnames in Belgium (total population: 11,521,238). Note — the following table contains the ten most common surnames in each of the three federal regions as of 1 January 2021 ...
In Denmark, the most common suffix is -gaard — the modern spelling is gård in Danish and can be either gård or gard in Norwegian, but as in Sweden, archaic spelling persists in surnames. The most well-known example of this kind of surname is probably Kierkegaard (combined by the words "kirke/kierke" (= church) and "gaard" (= farm) meaning ...
Dutch family names were not required until 1811 when emperor Napoleon annexed the Netherlands; [1] prior to 1811, the use of patronymics was much more common.. In Dutch linguistics, many names use certain qualifying words (prepositions) which are positioned between a person's given name and their surname.
Pages in category "Danish masculine given names" The following 194 pages are in this category, out of 194 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aage;