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  2. 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.

  3. 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 .

  4. 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).

  5. German name - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, there are dialectal differences between the regions of German-speaking Europe, especially visible in the forms of hypocorisms.These differences are still perceptible in the list of most popular names, even though they are marginalized by super-regional fashionable trends: As of 2012, the top ten given names of Baden-Württemberg (Southern Germany) and of Schleswig-Holstein ...

  6. Meyer (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Meyer is an originally German, Dutch and Jewish surname. With its numerous variants (Myer, Meyr, Meier, Meijer, Mayer, Maier, Mayr, Mair, Miers, etc.), it is a common ...

  7. Lists of most common surnames in European countries

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    In older documents such surnames were written with the word syn 'son', for example, Ivánov syn 'John's son' or Il'yín syn 'Elijah's son'; the last word was later dropped. Such names are roughly equivalent to the English or Welsh surnames Richardson or Richards .

  8. Category:Surnames of German origin - Wikipedia

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  9. Müller (surname) - Wikipedia

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    The German word Müller means "miller" (as a profession).It is the most common family surname in Germany, Switzerland, and the French départements of Bas-Rhin and Moselle [1] (with the spelling Müller, Mueller or Muller) and is the fifth most common surname in Austria (see List of most common surnames in Europe).