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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.
Pages in category "German-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,607 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
German-language surnames (7 C, 4,603 P) Germanized Slavic family names (12 P) I. Icelandic-language surnames (3 C, 12 P) L. Limburgian surnames (2 P) Low German ...
Most of the names on this list are typical examples of surnames that were adopted when modern surnames were introduced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the romantic spirit, they refer to natural features: virta 'river', koski 'rapids', mäki 'hill', järvi 'lake', saari 'island' — often with the suffix -nen added after the model ...
Pages in category "Surnames of German origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 593 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The list is an alphabetical overview of Bavarian nobility. It contains information about name variants, ancestry, extent and well-known personalities of the line. Where no coat of arms is available, the file position from Siebmacher's 1605 Book of Coats of Arms is given as follows: page number of the coat of arms plate and position of the coat ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Low German surnames" The following 87 pages are in this category, out of 87 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Albers;
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