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German-language surnames (7 C, 4,580 P) Germanized Slavic family names ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
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 .
von – "of", "from"; often a sign of nobility, but also just a geographical term of the name originated of a location. zu - ( German ) "at"; a sign of nobility, sometimes in the combination von und zu , meaning the noble family still owns the place of naming
In the 19th century in Austria and Bavaria, non-noble surnames containing von were widely altered by compounding it with the main surname element, such as von Werden → Vonwerden. [1] "Untitled" and "non-noble" are not synonyms in the German-speaking world. However, most German nobles used von and most users of von were noble.
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 ...
Byl, van der – archaic spelling, Afrikaans, or Americanization of "van der Bijl" Coevorden, van – e.g. George Vancouver#Origins of the family name; Citroen – lemon, e.g. André Citroën; Cornelissen – son of Cornelius; Dekker – from the verb dekken or to cover as in covering roof tops (compare "Thatcher") Dijk, Deijck, van – From ...
Pages in category "Surnames of German origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 591 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The preposition von ("of") was used to distinguish nobility; for example, if someone was baron of the village of Veltheim, his family name would be von Veltheim. In modern times, people who were elevated to nobility often had a 'von' added to their name. For example, Johann Wolfgang Goethe had his name changed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...