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2. Category:German-language surnames - Wikipedia

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   Surnames of German language origin. Wikimedia Commons has media related to German-language surnames . This category will also include Yiddish -language surnames, where the surname has its origins in German .

3. Category:Surnames of German origin - Wikipedia

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   Swiss-German surnames‎ (102 P) Pages in category "Surnames of German origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 581 total.

4. List of the most common surnames in Germany - Wikipedia

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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.

5. Category:Germanic-language surnames - Wikipedia

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   Category: Germanic-language surnames. 13 languages. ... Surnames of Frisian origin (41 P) G. German-language surnames (7 C, 4,563 P) Germanized Slavic family names ...

6. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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   For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).

7. Meyer (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Meyer is an originally German, Dutch and Jewish surname. ... Miers, etc.), it is a common German surname. [1] Its original meaning in Middle High German is from mei(g

8. German name - Wikipedia

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   The surnames of the German Jews are a special case, as they were introduced later, in the late 18th to early 19th century, per fiat. [9] The Prussian authorities imposed made-up and sometimes derogatory names. For instance, the name "Waldlieferant" (lit.: forest supplier) was "created" to ridicule a Jewish timber trader.

9. Gross (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Gross (surname) Gross or Groß in German is the correct spelling of the surname under German orthographic rules. In Switzerland, the name is spelled Gross. Some Germans and Austrians also use the spelling with "ss" instead of "ß". It is a surname of German, Prussian, and Yiddish (Ashkenazi Jewish) origin. The word means "big", "tall" or "great ...