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Pages in category "Swedish-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 757 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
A third tradition of surnames was introduced in south Finland by the Swedish-speaking upper and middle classes, which used typical German and Swedish surnames. By custom, all Finnish-speaking persons who were able to get a position of some status in urban or learned society, discarded their Finnish name, adopting a Swedish, German or (in the ...
Most of the names on this list are typical examples of surnames that were adopted when modern surnames were introduced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the romantic spirit, they refer to natural features: virta 'river', koski 'rapids', mäki 'hill', järvi 'lake', saari 'island' — often with the suffix -nen added after the model ...
German-language surnames (7 C, 4,619 P) Germanized Slavic family names (12 P) I. ... Swedish-language surnames (754 P) Pages in category "Germanic-language surnames"
Surnames of Swedish origin (2 C, 61 P) ... The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aa (surname)
This was a period which produced a myriad of two-word Swedish family names for the nobility; very favoured prefixes were Adler– (German for 'eagle'), Ehren– (German for 'honor', Swedish ära), Silfver– ('silver') and Gyllen– or Gylden-('golden' or 'gilded'). Unlike a British peerage title ("Lord Somewhere"), such a name became the new ...
Pages in category "Surnames of Swedish origin" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adlercreutz;
-son (English, Swedish, German, Norwegian, Scottish, Icelandic) "son (of)" (sometimes less recognizable, e.g. "Dixon"; in Iceland not part of a family name but the patronymic (sometimes matronymic) last name (by law), where (usually) the fathers's name is always slightly modified and then son added) [citation needed]