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Iranian Family Names Reference library
Seyed Mostafa Assi
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...or epithets. Nobles, statesmen, and the royal family had honorific titles added to their names, which usually indicated their position, responsibility, or personal characteristic. Some of the titles may be traced in: • mythology: e.g. Pishdād / Pishdādi ‘the first (prehistoric) legislator’ and Kiyumars ‘the first man on earth’ (an equivalent to the Biblical Adam); • old Iranian religions or Islam: e.g. Varjāvand ‘saint, shining’, Anushā / Anushe ‘immortal’, Ahurā ‘lord’, Yadollāh ‘the hand of God’, Asadollāh ‘the lion of God’, and ...
Chinese Family Names Reference library
Mark Lewellen and Horace Chen
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...One’s xing was generally obtained by inheritance. (Many scholars, noting the high frequency of the component for ‘woman’ in characters for various xing , as well as in the character for the word xing itself, argue that the xing dates back to matriarchal societies in prehistoric times and was originally transmitted through the mother.) As revealed by the records of oracle bone scripts and bronze inscriptions, eight major xing s, known as “Eight Great Xing s of Antiquity”, had already existed prior to the Shang dynasty. Eventually a particular xing ...
Bagga Reference library
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain
...1881: 0. Indian (Punjabi): Hindu, Mair Rajput (goldsmith community), also Sikh; from Baghala , the name of a tribe of central Asian origin who came to India in prehistoric...
Stever Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 2126 German: habitational name from Stevern near Münster or topographic name from the Stever river (named with a prehistoric word denoting a...
Popiel Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 572 Polish: nickname from dialect popiel (standard Polish popiół ) ‘ash, cinders’. History: Popiel was the name of a legendary ruler of prehistoric...
Odenthal Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 522 German: habitational name from Odenthal northeast of Cologne, formerly named Udendar , from a prehistoric creek name, Udandra . Some characteristic forenames: German Gerhard, Kurt,...
Feuerbach Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 351 German: habitational name from any of several places so named. According to Bahlow, Feuerbach near Stuttgart was named from a prehistoric term for a marsh + Old High German bah ‘stream’ (see Bach ...
Altamira Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 416 Spanish: habitational name from any of numerous places called Altamira, most famously the site of prehistoric caves in Cantabria, or from Altamira-San Cristóbal in Biscay, Basque Country. The placename is composed of alto ‘high’ and mira ‘viewpoint,...
Altenburg Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 894 German: habitational name from any of various places called Altenburg, literally ‘old fort’, generally denoting the site of a Roman fort or prehistoric earthwork. Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Kurt, Florian,...
Terpstra Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 2514 West Frisian and Dutch: topographic name, composed with the suffix -stra from Old Frisian sittera ‘inhabitant of’, denoting someone who lived on a terp , a prehistoric man-made mound built on lowlying land as a habitation...
Bagga Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 502 Indian (Punjab): Mair Rajput name traditionally associated with the goldsmith community; from Baghala , the name of a tribe of Central Asian origin who came to India in prehistoric...
Featherstone Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 3234 English (northern): habitational name from any of the places in Staffordshire, Yorkshire, and Northumberland, which are so called from Old English fetherstān ‘tetralith’, a prehistoric structure consisting of three upright stones capped with a headstone (from Old English fe(o)ther- ‘four’ + stān ...
Nimmer Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 678 1 German: habitational name from Nimmer, Westphalia, derived from a prehistoric word nim , nam , with a probable meaning of ‘marsh’. 2 South German: from the personal name Nidmar , composed of Old High German nīt ‘hostility’ + māri ‘famous’. Some characteristic forenames: German Armin, Kurt,...
Humber Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 961 English: habitational name from Humber (Herefordshire) or Humber in Bishopsteignton (Devon). The Herefordshire place takes its name from Humber Brook, a prehistoric river name of uncertain origin, while the Devon placename derives from the Old English personal name Hund or Old English hund ‘hound’ + beorg ‘hill,...
Stanton Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...Staunton in Worcestershire, all named with Old English stān ‘stone’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Most of the placenames come from their situation on stony ground, but in the case of Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire and Stanton Drew in Avon the reference is to the proximity of prehistoric stone monuments. The name has also sometimes been chosen by Ashkenazic Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames. This surname has also long been established in Ireland (especially...
Trundle Reference library
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain
...1881: 286; Essex; Norfolk. English: (i) locative name from Middle English trendel , trindel ‘circle, sphere’ (Old English trendel ), used topographically to denote a range of circular features, notably prehistoric stone circles, earthwork enclosures, and rounded hills. The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived beside such a feature, or toponymic, for someone from a place so named, such as Trendell’s Wood in Stokenchurch (Bucks), documented as Trindele in 1227, The Trundle, a hillfort on Saint Roche’s Hill in Singleton (Sussex), and Trull...
Trundle Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 357 1 English (Essex and Norfolk): from Middle English trendel , trindel ‘circle, sphere’ (Old English trendel ), used topographically to denote a range of circular features, notably prehistoric stone circles, earthwork enclosures, and rounded hills. The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived beside such a feature, or toponymic, from a place so named, such as Trendell’s Wood in Stokenchurch (Buckinghamshire), The Trundle, a hillfort on Saint Roche’s Hill in Singleton (Sussex), and Trull (Somerset). Perhaps also...
Yong Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...variant Romanization of the surname 翁 , see Weng 1. 6 Chinese: Hakka form of the surname 熊 , see Xiong 1. 7 Korean: there are two Chinese characters and two clans associated with the Yong surname; one is too rare to be treated here. The other claims its origins in prehistoric tribal Korea. In this early period, tribes would assume the names of animals. It is said that the Yong surname (which means ‘dragon’) came into being when the tiger tribe wished to avoid being named after a man-eating beast. The first recorded ancestor was an official in the...
O’Hare Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland
... (Maghera, Clooney, Doora and Quin, Clare); Margaret Hehir, 1855 in Griffith’s Valuation (Ballinlisheen, Kilkeedy, Clare). 2 Irish: from Ó hÍr or Ó hÉir ‘descendant of Ír ’, a personal name, possibly meaning ‘long-lasting’, borne by a legendary ancestor of a prehistoric population group, mainly in the north of Ireland. This name was always monosyllabic. Another current Irish anglicization (including sense (1)) is Haire . Standardized form: Ó hÍr. Early bearers: Bernard O’Hare, yeoman, 1550 in Fiants Edward §644 (Lekayle, Down); Patrick...
Mycenae (Greece) Quick reference
Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Place Names (6 ed.)
...Mycenae , Greece A prehistoric city, now in ruins, said to have been named by its legendary founder, Perseus, after Mycene, a nymph of...
