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Stern is a surname which can be of either German/Yiddish or English language origin, though the former case predominates. [citation needed] The English version of the surname was used as a nickname for someone who was strict, austere, harsh, or stern in character. [1] The German/Yiddish word Stern means "star".
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).
Surnames of German language origin. Wikimedia Commons has media related to German-language surnames . This category will also include Yiddish -language surnames, where the surname has its origins in German .
The common names Schmidt and Schmitz lead in the central German-speaking and eastern Low German-speaking areas. Meyer is particularly common in the Low German-speaking regions, especially in Lower Saxony (where it is more common than Müller). Bauer leads in eastern Upper German-speaking Bavaria. Rarer names tend to accumulate in the north and ...
Traditionally, there are dialectal differences between the regions of German-speaking Europe, especially visible in the forms of hypocorisms.These differences are still perceptible in the list of most popular names, even though they are marginalized by super-regional fashionable trends: As of 2012, the top ten given names of Baden-Württemberg (Southern Germany) and of Schleswig-Holstein ...
Meyer is an originally German, Dutch and Jewish surname. With its numerous variants (Myer, Meyr, Meier, Meijer, Mayer, Maier, Mayr, Mair, Miers, etc.), it is a common ...
Herman is a masculine given name, from an ancient Germanic name consisting of the elements harja-"army" and mann-"man". Hermine is the feminine form of Herman. [1] It is first recorded in the 8th century, in the forms Hariman, Heriman, Hairman, Herman.
Beck is a surname of either Germanic origin, and is fairly common in English and Slavic speaking countries, Germany (equivalent to Bach) and Denmark. The Germanic name can mean " brook, stream " (related to Old Norse bekkr ) or be a variant of Becker , which is an occupational surname meaning "baker".