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About 13% of the German population today has names of Slavic origin. Many Austrians also have surnames of Slavic origin. Polish names in Germany abound as a result of over 100,000 people (including 130,000 "Ruhrpolen") immigrating westward from the Polish-speaking areas of the German Empire.
Surnames of Luxembourgian origin (9 P) N. North German surnames (12 P) Pages in category "German-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out ...
Note: The most common surnames in Slovakia are a mixture of Indo-European and the Ugric roots reflecting the 900-year-long coexistence of the Indo-European Slovaks and speakers of other Indo-European languages with Ugric Hungarians and the Croatians, under Hungarian assimilation pressure throughout the 19th century (see Magyarization, see ...
The most common exceptions are alphabetized list of surnames, e.g. "Bach, Johann Sebastian", as well as some official documents and spoken southern German dialects. In most of this, the German conventions parallel the naming conventions in most of Western and Central Europe, including English, Dutch, Italian, and French.
[3] an exceptional practice regarding surnames borne by former members of the nobility: whereas the gender differentiation in German surnames, widespread until the 18th century and colloquially retained in some dialects, was abolished in Germany with the introduction of officially registered invariable surnames by the late 19th century, former ...
B Name Period Seat/Origins Canton Remarks Personalities Coat of arms Bart zu Koppenhausen The Bärtts of Kopenhausen Siebmacher 1605:83,13 Baurenfreund Baurenfreund Siebmacher 1605:89,12 Baymundt Baymundt Siebmacher 1605:99,3 Behaim von Abensberg 1120-vor 1681 Village of Behaim bei Moosburg, Abensberg, Freising House of Beheim von Adelshausen Behem von Adelzhausen Pehaim von Adelshausen Beheim ...
Its original meaning in Middle High German is from mei(g)er, "manager (of a lord's country estate)", derived from Latin maior domus, i.e. "headman of a household" (cf. mayor), later on also meaning "tenant" or "(free) farmer". It is therefore a rough equivalent of the English Steward, which has also been turned into surnames such as Stuart.
Swiss-German surnames (102 P) Pages in category "Surnames of German origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 593 total.