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  2. Biswas - Wikipedia

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    Biswas (Bengali: বিশ্বাস) (pronounced in Bengali as "bish-shash") is a native Bengali surname, commonly used by the Bengali community of India and Bangladesh. The surname was an honorary title bestowed on persons who were relied upon for the work of accounts, receipts and expenditure. [1] The word Biswas means faith or trust in ...

  3. Sikh names - Wikipedia

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    Sikh names often have the following format: First name – Religious name – Family name. [1] [2] Sikh first names serve as personal names and are selected through the Naam Karan ceremony, where a random page of the Guru Granth Sahib is opened by a granthi (Sikh preist) and the first letter of the first prayer on the opened page is used as the basis for the first name as an initial.

  4. Category:Bengali Hindu surnames - Wikipedia

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  5. Name change - Wikipedia

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    In case of adoption, the adopting family cannot change the child's name unless the court ruled otherwise. In case of marriage, a person can change their last name, change back to the maiden name or add their spouse's last name to theirs at any time. A minor whom parents changed their last name gets the new last name of their parents, and a ...

  6. Anglicisation of names - Wikipedia

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    Anglicisation of non-English-language names was common for immigrants, or even visitors, to English-speaking countries. An example is the German composer Johann Christian Bach, the "London Bach", who was known as "John Bach" after emigrating to England.

  7. Harichand Thakur - Wikipedia

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    His grandfather, Manchanram Biswas, was a devout Vaishnavite known as 'Thakur Manchanram' in the locality. [3] His father Jashomanta inherited the 'Thakur' title, and the family adopted the surname 'Thakur', abandoning their original surname 'Biswas'. [3] Harichand Thakur was married to Jagat Mata Shanti Mata, and they had two sons.

  8. List of legally mononymous people - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable people whose full legal name is (or was) a mononym, either by name change or by being born mononymic (e.g. Burmese, Indonesian, or Japanese royalty). Titles (e.g. Burmese honorifics ) do not count against inclusion, because they are not part of the name itself.

  9. Hebraization of surnames - Wikipedia

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    Poster in the Yishuv offering assistance to Palestinian Jews in choosing a Hebrew name for themselves, 2 December 1926. The Hebraization of surnames (also Hebraicization; [1] [2] Hebrew: עברות Ivrut) is the act of amending one's Jewish surname so that it originates from the Hebrew language, which was natively spoken by Jews and Samaritans until it died out of everyday use by around 200 CE.