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This List of Bavarian noble families contains all 338 Bavarian aristocratic families named in 1605 by Siebmacher as well as further additions. The list is an alphabetical overview of Bavarian nobility. It contains information about name variants, ancestry, extent and well-known personalities of the line.
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 ...
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Schulenburg (surname) Schutzbar genannt Milchling family; House of Schwarzburg; House of Schwarzenberg; Sieghardinger; Siemens family; House of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich; House of Soterius von Sachsenheim; Sparneck family; Sponheim family; Starschedel; House of Stolberg; Stößner; Stülpnagel; House of Palatinate-Simmern
While the vast majority of Icelanders do not use regular surnames but rather patronyms or matronyms, around 4% of Icelanders have proper surnames. See also Icelandic names. The 20 most common surnames in the Iceland as published in 2017 are shown below beside the number of people of the Icelandic population sharing each surname. [31]
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The German variants, which were likely spelled Schärf or Schaerf originally, usually trace their origins to Bavaria, although the surname is now common over all of Germany. Literally meaning "sharp", it is regarded as having originated as a medieval nickname , i.e. it described an attribute of an individual's personality, such as sharp ...