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Pages in category "English-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,392 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Lists of the most common surnames by continent: Lists of most common surnames in African countries; Lists of most common surnames in Asian countries; Lists of most common surnames in European countries; Lists of most common surnames in North American countries; Lists of most common surnames in Oceanian countries
Surnames of English origin. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Surnames of British Isles origin . It includes Surnames of British Isles origin that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The female variant of the surname is usually formed as feminative from the basic, male variant, or the male and female variants are grammatically symmetrical. Moreover, in some other languages and cultures, maiden surnames (belonging to the father, e.g. Polish -ówna) were or are being distinguished from wives' surnames (belonging to the ...
Over the centuries, under the influence of post-Medieval English practice, this type of surname has become static over generations, handed down the male lineage to all successive generations so that it no longer indicates the given name of a holder's father any more than the suffix -son on a Germanic language surname does today. Among English ...
This category is for masculine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language masculine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
In Slovenia the last name of a female is the same as the male form in official use (identification documents, letters). In speech and descriptive writing (literature, newspapers) a female form of the last name is regularly used. If the name has no suffix, it may or may not have a feminine version.
Amharic-language names (73 P) Arabic-language surnames (5 C, 761 P) ... English-language surnames (3 C, 3,383 P) Estonian-language surnames (393 P) F.