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The common names Schmidt and Schmitz lead in the central German-speaking and eastern Low German-speaking areas. Meyer is particularly common in the Low German-speaking regions, especially in Lower Saxony (where it is more common than Müller). Bauer leads in eastern Upper German-speaking Bavaria. Rarer names tend to accumulate in the north and ...
Pages in category "Old-Prussian-language surnames" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. K. Kujat;
Common places used as surnames include Dibra, Laci, Shkodra, Prishtina, Delvina, Koroveshi and Permeti, as well as the famous Frasheri surname of the Frasheri family. Additionally common some names indicate regional origins: Gega/Gegaj (for one of Gheg origin ), Tosku/Toskaj (signifying Tosk origin ) and Chami (for Cham origin ).
A. Abraham (given name) Achim (name) Adalbert; Adel (name) Adelbert; Adolf; Adrian; Alan (given name) Albert (given name) Albrecht; Alexander; Alfred (name) Alois
Pages in category "German-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,612 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Khan is among the most popular surnames, often signifying Afghan/Central Asian descent. Bestowed titles or other honorifics: titles bestowed by kings, rajas, nawabs and other nobles before the British Raj (Wali, Rai, Rao, Babu, Thakur, Gain/Gayen, Panicker, Vallikappen, Moocken, etc.) and those bestowed by the British (Rai, Bahadur).
The most common exceptions are alphabetized list of surnames, e.g. "Bach, Johann Sebastian", as well as some official documents and spoken southern German dialects. In most of this, the German conventions parallel the naming conventions in most of Western and Central Europe, including English, Dutch, Italian, and French.
This appellation was also frequently used to form longer, more specific surnames such as Bergmair or Niedermeier. Some German Jews adopted Meyer or a variant thereof as a surname when they assimilated to German culture in the 18th century , as it is close to the Hebrew first name Me'ir (מֵאִיר), "shining, enlightened".