Many of these surnames had started with the Mac (“son of”) prefix, then dropped the Mac, but ended up with the hard “k”-sounding prefix instead.The origin of Quayle appears to be the Celtic MacPhail or MacFail, meaning “son of Paul:”...
d. Les Fleurs de L’Orient.[5]This richly documented website which is dedicated to the Farhi family history has also a genealogy section with thousands of surnames and has also an advanced search option by birth and death place. e. The Circumcisions Register of Maatuk Dabby.[6] Maatuk D...
34,000 in the UK (most numerous in Lancashire) 26,000 in America (most numerous in California) 21,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Australia) Cross and Like Surnames These names are locational, describing someone who lived in those medieval times by the side of a bank, or by a barn or ...
Attachment: foreign names (female names) A Abigail Abigail Hebrew father is happy; his father. Ada, ADA, UK, add pleasure; beauty.
reasons, such as to signal family connectedness (to show marital union/commitment and family solidarity and/or to mark the beginning of a new stage of life) or as a pragmatic means of avoiding confusion over disparate surnames within a family unit (for the UK, see Thwaites 2013; Wilson ...
116,000 in the UK (most numerous in London) 158,000 in America (most numerous in Texas). 77,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Canada). Adams and Like Surnames The surnames found here cover most of the US Presidential surnames since the first President, George Washington. Click on the surnam...
This article presents a comprehensive exploration of Vietnamese surnames, with a specific focus on those attributed to the Kinh people, from an onomastic perspective. Beginning with a broad overview of general studies on Vietnamese names, the paper introduces the prevailing name structure, which fol...