Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Bätzing. Bauder. Baudisch. Bauer (surname) (previous page) ( next page ) Categories: German language. Surnames by language. Germanic-language surnames.
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 ).
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.
Pages in category "Surnames of Jewish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,461 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Pages in category "Surnames of German origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 581 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
German-language surnames (7 C, 4,543 P) Germanized Slavic family names (12 P) I. Icelandic-language surnames (3 C, 8 P) L. Limburgian surnames (2 P)
Baas – The Boss. Bakker – Baker. Beek, van – From the brook. Beekhof – garden brook. Beenhouwer – Butcher. Berg, van der – From the cliff, mountain. Berkenbosch – birch wood, a grove of birch trees. Bijl, van der – "from the axe" – i.e. descended from woodcutters ( lumberjacks) Boer, de – the Farmer.