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This is the list of surnames of Georgian people This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Pages in category "Georgian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 443 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Georgian surnames are derived either from patronymics or, less frequently, from toponyms, with addition of various suffixes. Georgian suffixes vary by region. The most common Georgian suffixes are: -shvili (-შვილი): meaning "child": from western and eastern Georgia. E.g.
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The law does not allow one to create any surname that is duplicated with any existing surnames. [17] Under Thai law, only one family can create any given surname: any two people of the same surname must be related, and it is very rare for two people to share the same full name. In one sample of 45,665 names, 81% of family names were unique. [18]
Lazarashvili is a Georgian language patronymic surname.The name consists of two parts: the suffix, "Shvili" (meaning "the child of" in Georgian); [1] and the prefix "Lazar" (from a Jewish phrase "El Azar", which means "God Helps"), or from the masculine given name Lazarus, translated to Lazare in Georgian. [2]
For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).
In fact, the ancestor of the family, the Kabardian nobleman Alejuko known to the Georgians as Aladag, settled down in the eastern Georgian kingdom of Kakheti in the 17th century. With the adoption of Christianity by Aladag and his scions, the family was conferred with the princely rank and given several villages, such as Manavi , Tokhliauri ...