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Alger Hiss – American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s, original surname of "Hesse" [473] Jimmy Hoffa – labor union leader and author [474] J. Edgar Hoover – first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Lena Kleinschmidt – jewel thief; Fritz Kuhn – German American ...
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 ...
Pages in category "German-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,626 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
When it comes to new and trending names, Kim admitted that names like Olivia or Emma are not always at the top of her mind. Instead, she predicts that baby names in 2024 will have more to do with ...
The most common surname remains Smith; over two million Americans have that name and it is the most common name for white, native and multiracial residents. The most common name among black Americans was Williams and the most common name among Asian Americans was Nguyen. The name Wilson was 10th in the 2000 census but was replaced by Martinez ...
Articles in this category are concerned with surnames (last names in Western cultures, but family names in general), especially articles concerned with one surname. Use template {} to populate this category. However, do not use the template on disambiguation pages that contain a list of people by family name.
German-language surnames (7 C, 4,624 P) ... Pages in category "Germanic-language surnames" The following 190 pages are in this category, out of 190 total.
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 ...