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Also known as "surname" or "last name" in many western cultures.  This type is different from the type "family" which is used for notable families that can be discretely defined (such as royal houses, the Guggenheim family, the Sulzbergers, etc... more

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Burnham   Topic  
People with the surname Burnham:
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Zavoico   Topic  
Zavoyko is a Slavic surname. "Zavoyko" may refer to:
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Hanchate   Topic  
Hanchate is surname prevalent among the people of Bhavsar Kshatriya Samaj, sub-caste of Kshatriyas, in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharastra & Karnataka.
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Mazurek   Topic  
Mazurek may refer to: includes name origin, and people with the name
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Armistead   Topic  
Armistead is a surname, and may refer to: Bellington Jameson Armistead
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Auerbach   Topic  
The Jewish family Auerbach, of the 16th to 18th century was a family of scholars, the progenitor of which was Moses Auerbach, court Jew to the bishop of Regensburg, about 1497. One of his daughters, who went after her marriage to Kraków, is the reputed ancestress of the celebrated Rabbi Moses Isserles (""). Another branch of the family settled at Vienna. A near relative, Meshullam Solomon Fischhof-Auerbach, occupied such an eminent position in the community of Vienna that he married Miriam...
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Ashworth   Topic  
Ashworth is a surname, and may refer to
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Fitzpatrick   Topic  
The surname Fitzpatrick is the translation of Mac Giolla Phádraig from the original Irish to English. It is the only surname with the Fitz prefix of native Gaelic-Irish origin. All others are of Hiberno-Norman descent. Giolla Phádraig (the devoted of St. Patrick) was King of Ossory, a kingdom in Leinster in Ireland. According to Carrigan, this kingdom was founded by Aengus Osrith who flourished some time about the latter half of the second century of the Christian era. Giolla Phádraigs reign...
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Holtreman HO(U)LTREMAN/OULTREMAN: "d'azur au chevron d'hermine" in Manuscrits PITPAN DE MONTAUBAN Topic  
Holtreman is a spelling version of the Oultreman family name. The Holtreman name was adopted in Portugal by an Oultreman’s family branch originally from Valenciennes. In the early 17th century, a knight called Jean (John) Houltremant (or d’Oultreman) served the Count of Vila Real in the reign of Philip III of Portugal (Philip IV of Spain). Jean Houltremant descended from an old lineage from the Bishopric of Liège being a grandson of Jean d’Oultremant dit Holtremant, Secretary of the King and ...
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Marni   Topic  
The name Marni originates from several languages, including Hebrew, meaning "rejoice", and Latin as a variant of "Marina", meaning "of the sea". It also has derivations from Gaelic and Swahili. "Marni" and "Marnie" are the two most common spellings of the female first name, ranking 2446 and 1498, respectively, out of 4275 for females of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census. Due to its many derivations, a number of alternate spellings and related variant names exist, including: Famous bearers of...
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Ahuja   Topic  
Ahuja is a common family name (surname) of Hindu and Sikh with origin ranging from Punjab and Sindh regions of the Indian subcontinent. This name is very rare. You can see this is a fact on HowManyOfMe.com. Just type in Ahuja. It may refer to:
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Rose   Topic  
Onomastics and disambiguational information about the words and place- & human names that forms Rose-, Rosen-. Rosenholz ist eine Sammelbezeichnung für verschiedene tropische Holz. Diese Hölzer haben einen rosenähnlichen Duft. Es hat nichts mit dem Holz der Rose zu tun, wie gerne angenommen wird. Häufig wird Palisander fälschlich als "Rosenholz" bezeichnet, da Palisander im Englischen rosewood genannt wird. Es handelt sich hierbei um einen beliebten Übersetzungsfehler. Palisander stammt...
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DiBeneditto   Topic  
DiBeneditto, is the Italian surname meaning "of the blessed" or "twice blessed", with other spellings, such as Di Beneditto, De Beneditto, Di Benedetto, DiBenedetto, Benedetto, DeBeneditto, and DeBenedetto being common. It is rumored that in the country of Italy babies were baptized or blessed at birth, then orphaned to the church and baptized or blessed again and then given the Di Benedetto last name. The spelling of DiBeneditto is the Americanized version, "Di Benedetto" being the...
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Boyko Boyko inhabitants of Galicia, lithograph from 1837 Topic  
The Boykos or Boikos are a distinctive group of Ukrainian Carpathian montagnards of the Carpathian highlands. The Boykos inhabited the central and the western half of the Carpathians in Ukraine, including the Dolynskyi and a part of the Rozhniativskyi Raion (districts) in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province), the Skolivskyi, Turkivskyi, and parts of the Drohobytskyi, Sambirskyi and Starosambirskyi Raion in the Lviv Oblast, and parts of the Mizhhirskyi Raion in the Zakarpattia Oblast), as well...
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Malmuth   Topic  
Malmuth is a Jewish surname meaning "teacher" in the Hebrew Language. It is a variant of the surname, Melamed, which originated in the areas of Kiev, Ukraine and Łódź, Poland. There are other Melamed variants, including "Malamuth" and "Malamud". Malmuth is an uncommon given name. People with the name include:
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Wertheim   Topic  
Wertheim may refer to: Wertheim is a German Christian family and Ashkenazi Jewish surname originated from Wertlheim or Wertheim County. It may refer to:
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Pace   Topic  
Pace is a surname in both Italian and English. In addition to being found in Italy and England, it is also found in Germany, is very common in Malta, and can be found among Italian and British immigrants in places like the United States.The Pace family are prominent in (particularly) Malta and in Sicily. They held ancient fiefdoms in both countries. While pronunciation varies according to one's linguistic heritage, the two most common variants are the English "Pace", rhyming with "race", and...
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Patangay   Topic  
Patangay is a Marathi surname which originated India. This surname is a part of a community called Bhavsar kshatriya. Bhavsar Kshatriya Samaj, is a community of Kshatriya (warriors). According to the epics the legendary Parshuram, who was said to be an Avatar of Lord Vishnu, had vowed a vengeance against a community of warriors, where in the war he had wiped most of the warriors, off the earth. This scenario had worried two young princes Bhavsingh and Sarsingh from Saurashtra who had...
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Khaimov   Topic  
Khaimov is a last name, primarily used by the Jew of the Caucasus region, also known as Mountain Jews.
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Budd   Topic  
Budd may refer to:
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Bengtsson   Topic  
Bengtsson is Swedish family name originating in a patronymic, meaning "son of Bengt". The name is sometimes written Bengtson (a form frequently adopted by migrants to the United States). Other forms occur, such as Bengtzon, Bankson or Benktsson. Bengtsson is the 15th most common surname in Sweden. People commonly known by their family name Bengtsson or variants include:
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Acland   Topic  
Acland is an English surname. The Aclands of Devon (often Dyke Acland: see Acland Baronets, Dyke Acland Baronets) were an influential family.
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Nisbeth   Topic  
Nisbeth is one of the many alternate spellings of the Scottish surname Nisbet. It is used chiefly in Scandinavia by the descendants of Scottish mercenary Alexander Nisbet, who settled in Sweden in 1648.
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Wechsel   Topic  
Wechsler is a German word meaning "exchanger" (from ''Wechsel, "(ex)change"). Wechsler (or Wexler) may refer to: Wechsler is the surname of:
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Haupt   Topic  
In German, in the broadest sense means something on the top of a hierarchy. Regarding the human body, the usage of for the head is considered antiquated or poetic, Kopf is being used instead. But Haupt still appears in figures of speech, as in compounds (, , , ) where its meaning equals the usage of the english main (eg Hauptreaktor = main reactor) Also, describes the most important person or element of a group: Derived from are Häuptling ("chieftain") and Enthauptung ("beheading"). In...
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McAtee   Topic  
McAtee is a surname of Ulster origin. The name is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Mac an tSaoi, meaning "son of the scholar" or "son of the wise man". Other related Anglicised names may be: MacAtee, MacEntee, MacYntie, and MacEtye. McAtee
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Sterky   Topic  
Sterky is a Swedish surname that may refer to:
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La Vecchia   Topic  
La Vecchia is an Italian surname and may refer to:
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Kecskés   Topic  
Kecskés is a Hungarian surname. It means goatherd. Other variatons of this name are: Ketskés, Kechkés. The Romanianized form is Checiches. The original Hungarian name of town Cozla(now in Romania) is also Kecskés.
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Iademarco   Topic  
Iademarco is a surname that dates back to before the 16th century and is uniquely dervived from Mirabello Sannitico, a small village in the region of Molise in Southern Italy Una parte de la familia emigro desde Italia hacia Estados Unidos de la mano de Vincenzo Iademarco y otra parte fue hacia Argentina de la mano de Gaetano Iademarco y su hermano, y quien les escribe es su nieto Pablo, estudiante de Ingenieria en Automatizacion y Control Industrial en Buenos Aires, Argentina. La familia aca...
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