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2. Bird (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Jake Bird (1901–1949), American serial killer and burglar; Jake Bird (baseball) (born 1995), American baseball pitcher; Jean Bird (1912–1957), British pilot; John Bird (actor) (1936–2022), British actor and comedian; John Bird (artist) (1766–1829), Welsh landscape artist; John Bird (astronomer) (1709–1776), British astronomer and ...

3. List of commonly used taxonomic affixes - Wikipedia

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   Meaning: bird, of a bird respectively. "ornith-" and "ornitho-" are generally used for animals with birdlike characteristics; the suffix "-ornis" is generally applied to fossil bird species. Examples: ornithischian ("bird-hipped"); Ornithocheirus ("bird-hand"); Eoconfuciusornis ("dawn bird of Confucius ")

4. Byrd (surname) - Wikipedia

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   View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Byrd is a surname of English and Irish origin, ... Bird (disambiguation)

5. Vogel (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Vogel and De Vogel are surnames originating in German and Dutch-speaking countries. An alternate spelling is Fogel. Vogel is the German and Dutch word for "bird". Equivalent surnames are Bird or Byrd in English or L'Oiseau in French.

6. Onomastics - Wikipedia

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   Onomastics (or onomatology in older texts) is the study of proper names, including their etymology, history, and use. An alethonym ('true name') or an orthonym ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Scholars studying onomastics are called onomasticians.

7. Fowler (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Fowler is an English and/or Scots surname. Its origin is the Old English fugelere , an occupational name for a bird-catcher or hunter of wild birds. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Old English fugel or fugol means "bird" and has evolved into the modern word fowl .

8. Merle (given name) - Wikipedia

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   Merle is a given name used by both men and women, from the English word merle or the French surname Merle, [1] which both meaning blackbird (from the Latin merula). [1] Related names are Merrill or Muriel .

9. Ethnonymic surname - Wikipedia

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   Ethnonymic surnames are surnames or bynames that originate from ethnonyms.They may originate from nicknames based on the descent of a person from a given ethnic group. Other reasons could be that a person came to a particular place from the area with different ethnic prevalence, from owing a property in such area, or had a considerable contact with persons or area of other ethnicity.