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Pages in category "Norwegian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 898 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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]
In 2009, 22.4% of the Norwegian population had a surname with the suffix "-sen", while among the newborns of 2009 the share was down to 18.4%. [11] The decline of patronymic-derived surnames is not a new phenomenon—the early 20th century saw a similar shift in the frequency of surnames, caused by demographic changes due to successive waves of ...
Pages in category "Surnames of Scandinavian origin" The following 71 pages are in this category, out of 71 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
More recent sources of surnames are Parish records from the beginning of the 17th century. [3] Arthur William Moore analysed the origin of Manx surnames in use at the beginning of the 19th century: of 170 surnames, about 100 (65 percent) are of Celtic origin while about 30 (17.5 percent) were of Norse-Gaelic origin. [4]
In the northern Hebrides, many of the indigenous surnames are derived from Gaelicised Norse personal names (for example, MacAmhlaigh → Macaulay, MacAsgaill → Macaskill, and MacLeòid → Macleod). [15] Such 'Norse' names in these areas are in complete contrast to the indigenous surnames of the adjacent islands and lands to the south. [34]
For Gaelic families and dynasties of Norse descent of any kind, male line or maternal, and preferably verifiable in some manner. Subcategories This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total.
Pages in category "Old Norse personal names" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ásleikr; E.
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