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Many double-barrelled names are written without a hyphen, causing confusion as to whether the surname is double-barrelled or not. Notable persons with unhyphenated double-barrelled names include politicians David Lloyd George (who used the hyphen when appointed to the peerage) and Iain Duncan Smith, composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Andrew Lloyd Webber, military historian B. H. Liddell Hart ...
Surnames of Lowland Scottish origin (1 C, 66 P) Pages in category "English-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,353 total.
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
The U.S Census Bureau had generated the list of top 1,000 surnames according to the 2010 U.S. census. In the accompanied list of top 10 surnames the #10 is Martinez displacing Wilson. [12] This reflects the anticipated population shift in the United States. [13] During the 2000 U.S. census, the top one 100 surnames in the U.S. were: [14] [15] [16]
An article in this category consists of or includes a list of people that share a surname or family name. Such articles are typically either split from long surname articles (as in the case of Johnson (surname) split from Johnson ) or are surname articles that need expansion.
In many places, such as villages in Catalonia, Galicia, and Asturias and in Cuba, people are often informally known by the name of their dwelling or collective family nickname rather than by their surnames. For example, Remei Pujol i Serra who lives at Ca l'Elvira would be referred to as "Remei de Ca l'Elvira"; and Adela Barreira López who is ...
a, -ya Kurdish means "of" (female) (by two surnames) [clarification needed] [citation needed]-à (Catalan) feminine -ana "of or from [a locality or place]" (Català -Catalan); and also the name of a job (Manyà -irosmith), from Latin -ānus, -āna [citation needed]-ac (Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Southern French) [citation needed] [citation ...
The Swedish speaking farmers along the coast of Österbotten usually used two surnames – one which pointed out the father's name (e.g. Eriksson, Andersson, Johansson) and one which related to the farm or the land their family or bigger family owned or had some connection to (e.g. Holm, Fant, Westergård, Kloo).