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2. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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   Family name affixes are a clue for surname etymology and can sometimes determine the ethnic origin of a person. This is a partial list of affixes. This is a partial list of affixes. Prefixes

3. Reynolds (surname) - Wikipedia

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   In Ireland, the Reynolds surname originates from Muintir Eolais, the primary Conmaicne sept of south County Leitrim. Throughout Ireland's rich history, the Reynolds family name was a prominent one, and even today County Leitrim is the principal stronghold of the name, nearly half the people in Ireland so called hailing from that area.

4. Hayes (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Hayes is an English language surname.In the United States Census, 1990, Hayes was the 100th most common surname recorded. [2] The oldest record of the surname dates to 1197 in the Eynsham Cartulary of Oxfordshire, where it appears in the form Heise.

5. Surname - Wikipedia

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   Issues of family name arise especially on the passing of a name to a newborn child, the adoption of a common family name on marriage, the renunciation of a family name, and the changing of a family name. [citation needed] Surname laws vary around the world. Traditionally in many European countries for the past few hundred years, it was the ...

6. Eddy (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Frank R. Holmes, in his Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1600-1700, proposes two possible origins; the Gaelic eddee, "instructor", or from the Saxon ed and ea, "backwards" and "water", a whirlpool or eddy, making the surname Eddy a place-name. Another possible origin is the Saxon root ead, "success" or "prosperity".

7. Brooks (surname) - Wikipedia

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   The surname Brooks is recorded in Ireland from the 1600s. O'Laughlin reports that "some of the name could stem from Irish origins, the name being changed into the English word 'Brook' or Brooks." [4] The surname is also found among English-speaking Ashkenazi Jews, deriving from the male Hebrew given name Boruch ("blessed").