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Vietnamese Family Names Reference library
Horace Chen
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...or political persecution. Moreover, some Vietnamese immigrants in the US adopted parts of their given names as surnames. This was a result of name order in Vietnamese being the reverse of the English convention, giving rise to this pattern upon migration to the US. Vietnamese Immigration in the United States According to census records, there were only a small number of Vietnamese immigrants in the US prior to the Vietnam War. But the final fall of Saigon and end of the war in 1975 forced many southern Vietnamese to seek refuge in the US for fear of political...
Iranian Family Names Reference library
Seyed Mostafa Assi
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...); Āzād ‘free’ (see azad ); Binā ‘(fully) sighted, able to see’ (see bina ); darvish ‘dervish’; Jāvid ‘eternal’ (see javid ); Kushā ‘hardworking’; Modarres ‘teacher’; Pārsā ‘pious’ (see parsa ); Varzide ‘experienced’; Dāneshmand , from dānesh ‘science’ + ‑mand ‘owner’; and Sāhebdivān , from sāheb ‘owner, in charge’ and divān ‘office’. Habitational and Topographic Names A surname which usually indicates the birthplace of the bearer is formed by adding the suffix ‑i to the name of a city, town, province, or even a country....
Polish Family Names Reference library
Aleksandra Cieślikowa and Paweł Swoboda
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... 2006 – 10 ) and in Moldova ( Palinciuc-Dudek 2011 ). A major Internet source is Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce (ISNP, The Internet Dictionary of Surnames in Poland) edited by Katarzyna Skowronek, developed in the Institute of Polish Language at Polish Academy of Sciences. K. Skowronek ( 2001 ) also authored a study on contemporary Polish surnames in a statistical and cognitive approach. Archival materials helpful in genealogical research are also increasingly available. Vital records and civil registers are published and indexed by Polish State...
Scandinavian Family Names Reference library
Olav Veka and Lennart Ryman
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...Tunström och Sporrong: Tillnamnsbruk och framväxten av släktnamn i Uppland . Umeå: Umeå universitet. Ryman, Lennart (2007): ‘Surnames as expressions of social identity’, in Eva Brylla and Mats Wahlberg , eds, Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Onomastic Sciences 3 (Uppsala 19–24 August 2002). Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen. Søndergaard, Georg (2000): Danske for- og efternavne . Rødovre: Askholms Forlag. Tegner, Esaias (1882): Om svenska familjenamn . Nordisk Tidskrift, reprinted in Ur språkens värld: Fem uppsatser av...
Finnish and Estonian Family Names Reference library
Sirkka Paikkala
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...Otava. Must, Aadu (2000): Eestlaste perekonnaloo allikad . Tartu: Kleio.Must, Aadu (2006): ‘Names as sources. The implementation of Estonian surnames in the historical research’, in Eva Brylla and Mats Wahlberg, eds, Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, 2: Uppsala; Sweden; 19–24 August 2002. Uppsala: Språk- och folkminnesinstitutet, Uppsala, 214–21. Paikkala, Sirkka (2004): Se tavallinen Virtanen. Suomalaisen sukunimikäytännön modernisoituminen 1850-luvulta vuoteen 1921 (The ordinary Virtanen: The modernization of the...
Winthrop Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...from Groton, Suffolk, to Salem, MA, in 1630 because of Charles I’s anti-Puritan policies. By the time of his death he had had four wives and 16 children, the most notable of whom was his son John (1606–76), a scientist and governor of CT. His descendants were prominent in politics and science, including John Winthrop (1714–79), an astronomer, and Robert Winthrop (1809–94), a senator and speaker of the US House of...
