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2. Frey (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Frey is a surname of German origin, from the Middle High German word "vri," meaning "free," and as a name, it referred to a free man, as opposed to a bondsman or serf in the feudal system. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Other variations include Freyr, Freyer, Freyda, Freyman, Freyberg, Freystein, Fray, Frayr, Frayda, Frayberg, Frayman, Freeman.

3. Read (surname) - Wikipedia

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   The Readingas appear to have been named after a chieftain called Reada, "The Red One," with the addition of the element -ingas meaning "the people of." [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The first written use of the name is that of a Leofwine se Reade (Leofwine the Red), in the time of King Canute , dating to 1016–1020.

4. González (surname) - Wikipedia

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   González is a Spanish surname of Germanic origin, the second most common (2.16% of the population) in Spain, [1] as well as one of the five most common surnames in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, and Venezuela, [2] and one of the most common surnames in the entire Spanish-speaking world.

5. Adler (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Adler is a surname of German origin meaning eagle. [1] and has a frequency in the United Kingdom of less than 0.004%, and of 0.008% in the United States. [2]In Christian iconography, the eagle is the symbol of John the Evangelist, and as such a stylized eagle was commonly used as a house sign/totem in German-speaking areas.

6. Taylor (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Taylor is a surname of English origin. It is believed to have developed in England after the Norman invasion. Possibly coming from the Norman occupational surname (meaning tailor) in France. [1] [2] derived from the Old French tailleur ("cutter"), [3] which derived from the Catalan Tauler meaning cutting board, or the Galician Tello meaning tile.

7. Lambert (name) - Wikipedia

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   Lambert is an English and French [1] given name and surname. It is from the Low German form of the anthroponymic name Landberht from the Old High German land "(home) land" and beraht "bright". [2] It is one of the most common French surnames with a total number of birth in France between 1966 and 1990 around 18,000 births.

8. Armstrong (surname) - Wikipedia

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   In Ireland the name was also adopted as an Anglicization of two Gaelic names from Ulster: Mac Thréinfhir (meaning "son of the strong man") and Ó Labhraidh Tréan (meaning "strong O'Lavery"). [3] From the name Ó Labhraidh Tréan (meaning "strong O'Lavery" and sometimes written in Anglo-Irish as "Tréanlámagh") the following surnames survive ...

9. Ackerman (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Acker comes from German or Old English, meaning "ploughed field"; it is related to or an alternate spelling of the word acre. [1] [2] Therefore, Ackerman means "ploughman". Ackerman is also a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname of Yiddish origin with the same meaning.