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The dissemination of surnames were also based on the recipient family's origins. For example, surnames starting with "A" were distributed to provincial capitals, "B" surnames were given to secondary towns, and tertiary towns received "C" surnames. [8] Families were awarded with the surnames or asked to choose from them. [9]
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Underdown is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: David Edward Underdown (David Underdown) (1925–2009), English historian; Charles Edward Underdown (Edward Underdown) (1908–1989), English actor; Emanuel Maguire Underdown (1831–1913), English barrister, author and industrialist; Emily Underdown (1863–1947), English author
Fix name of Ilocos Norte: 01:07, 7 July 2023: 3,750 × 4,109 (1.72 MB) TagaSanPedroAko: Uploaded a work by TagaSanPedroAko from * Base map: File:Blank map of the Philippines (primary LGUs).svg by Hariboneagle * Common surname info: province/city-level surname statistics (estimates) at Forebears (2014) with UploadWizard
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The Filipino given name Dranreb was invented by reversing the spelling of the English name Bernard, and someone calling himself Nosrac bears the legal name Carson. Joseph Ejército Estrada , the 13th president of the Philippines , began as a movie actor and received his nickname Erap as an adult; it comes from Pare spelled backwards (from ...
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.
Initially, the surnames were in a form of "[first name] z ("de", "of") [location]". Later, most surnames were changed to adjective forms, e.g. Jakub Wiślicki ("James of Wiślica") and Zbigniew Oleśnicki ("Zbigniew of Oleśnica"), with masculine suffixes-ski, -cki, -dzki and -icz or respective feminine suffixes -ska, -cka, -dzka and -icz on ...