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A. Aaron (surname) Aarons (surname) Abarough; Abbey (surname) Abbot (surname) Abbott (surname) Abney (surname) Abrams (surname) Ace (name) Acheson (surname)
Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (a.k.a. Hubert Wolfstern, [3] Hubert B. Wolfe + 666 Sr., [4] Hubert Blaine Wolfe+585 Sr., [5] and Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590 Sr., [6] among others, 4 August 1914 – 24 October 1997) was a German-born American typesetter who held the record for the longest personal name ever used.
This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with K in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.
Luigi Kasimir (1881–1962), Austrian painter, etcher and print-maker; Vytautas Kasiulis (1918–1995), Lithuanian/French painter and print-maker; János Kass (1927–2010), Hungarian illustrator, print-maker and film director; Lajos Kassák (1887–1967), Hungarian painter, poet and writer; Eizō Katō (加藤栄三, 1906–1972), Japanese ...
Rarer names tend to accumulate in the north and south. Huber is common in southern Bavaria and is, with the exception of Munich, the most frequent name in that area. Patronymic surnames such as Jansen/Janssen, Hansen, and Petersen are the most common names in the far north (Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein).
Pat Adams (born 1928), American painter and print-maker; Robert Adamson (1821–1848), Scottish photographer and chemist; Sarah Gough Adamson (1883–1963), Scottish landscape painter; Mary Adshead (1906–1983), English painter and muralist; Jankel Adler (1895–1949), Polish/English painter and print-maker; Mór Adler (1826–1902), Hungarian ...
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).
Families who had already adopted a prohibited surname but could prove their family had used the name for at least four consecutive generations. (Those were names prohibited for being too common, like de los Santos or de la Cruz or for other reasons.) Spanish names are the majority found in the books' list of legitimate surnames.