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Surnames of Lowland Scottish origin (1 C, 66 P) Pages in category "English-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,354 total.
Articles in this category are concerned with surnames (last names in Western cultures, but family names in general), especially articles concerned with one surname. Use template {} to populate this category. However, do not use the template on disambiguation pages that contain a list of people by family name.
Several surnames have multiple spellings; this is sometimes due to unrelated families bearing the same surname. A single surname in either language may have multiple translations in the other. In some English translations of the names, the M(a)c- prefix may be omitted in the English, e.g. Bain vs MacBain, Cowan vs MacCowan, Ritchie vs MacRitchie.
The word matronymic is first attested in English in 1794 and originates in the Greek μήτηρ mētēr "mother" (GEN μητρός mētros whence the combining form μητρo- mētro-), [1] ὄνυμα onyma, a variant form of ὄνομα onoma "name", [2] and the suffix -ικός-ikos, which was originally used to form adjectives with the sense "pertaining to" (thus "pertaining to the mother ...
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.
The compliance with the terms of the bequest was essential to avoid challenge by another potential heir in the lawcourts. In the 1970s some women began to adopt their mother's maiden name as their legal surnames. [2] People in Sweden have recently begun adopting maternal line surnames in an effort to broaden the number of last names in the ...
These different linguistic backgrounds are reflected in differing frequencies of surnames, as shown in the table below. On 31 December 1997 there were 316 295 different surnames in Belgium (total population: 11,521,238). Note — the following table contains the ten most common surnames in each of the three federal regions as of 1 January 2021 ...
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