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  2. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    -aj (pronounced AY; meaning “of the" ) It denotes the name of the family, which mostly comes from the male founder of the family, but also from a place, as in, Lash-aj (from the village Lashaj of Kastrat, MM, Shkodër). It is likely that its ancient form, still found in MM, was an [i] in front of the last name, as in ‘Déda i Lékajve ...

  3. Surname - Wikipedia

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    A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name.

  4. Surnames by country - Wikipedia

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    It is a common in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and some other parts of South India that the spouse adopts her husband's first name instead of his family or surname name after marriage. [10] In Rajasthan, the community name and sometimes the gotra or clan name are used as surnames. Usage of community name as surname include: Charan, Jat, Meena, Rajput, etc.

  5. Wilson (name) - Wikipedia

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    Wilson is an English, Scottish, and Northern Irish surname, common in the English-speaking world, with several distinct origins. The name is derived from a patronymic form of Will, a popular medieval name. The medieval Will is derived from any of several names containing Old Norse or the first Germanic element wil, meaning "desire". [1]

  6. Lewis (surname) - Wikipedia

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    The name developed as an Anglicised or diminutive form of native Welsh names such as Llywelyn. Among the earliest examples being the Lewis family of Glamorgan in the 1540s. [1] Other derivations include the Gaelic surname Mac Lughaidh, meaning "son of Lughaidh", which has also been Anglicised as Lewis. The surname Lewis is also an Anglicisation ...

  7. Hastings (name) - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] [5] John O'Hart in his work "The origin and stem of the Irish nation" published 1892, states the Irish Hastings origin is from the ancient Irish Gaelic name O'h-Uisgin, [6] other possible Irish sources may derive from a Norse Gaelic personal name Oistín or a phonetic version of Ó hOissín another old Connacht Irish surname, a family ...