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Dierker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Chris Dierker (born 1994), Vietnamese-American basketball player; Hugh Dierker (1890–1975), American film director and producer; Larry Dierker (born 1946), American baseball player, manager, and broadcaster
At this early period of history, however, the surname existed in a different form from the modern day; de la Dykes, literally meaning 'of the Dykes', indicating the region from where the family came. A charter, bearing the first known recorded instance of the surname, comes from either the reign of Henry III or Edward I , though the exact date ...
The oldest public record of the surname dates to 1176. [3] In the 2010 United States Census, Ward was the 79th most common surname. [4] It is the 78th most common surname in Ireland. [5] It was the 31st most common surname in the 1991 UK census and 40th in 2001 census, [6] and in 2007, was found to be the most common surname in Lutterworth ...
The similar linguistic origin of these words is also recognizable in the English etymology. [ 4 ] In the Netherlands the earliest known Tuckers are the brothers Jan and Willam die Tucker, both vassals of the Lord of Culemborg in 1358 [ 5 ] who was parented to the Lord of Breda where Jan Tucker sold a house in 1368 on the Hagedijk Road to ...
Duquesne or Duchesne (/ dj uː ˈ k eɪ n / dew-KAYN, French:; old spelling Du Quesne, American spelling DuQuesne) is a family name derived from a northern dialectal form of French (Norman and Picard) meaning du chêne in French ("of the oak").
This toponymic surname may derive from prender from a Germanic word for fire or conflagration (cf. brand) where the b became p due to fortition and gast (cf. geest) from a Germanic word for wasteland or dry and infertile land meaning the location could have been a burn-beat area.
Dirk is a male given name of Dutch origin. It is a traditional diminutive of the Dutch name Diederik. The meaning of the name is "the people's ruler", composed of þeud ("people") and ric ("power"). Dirk may also be a surname. It is cognate to French Thierry, German Dietrich and Gothic Theoderic.
Siegel (also Segal, Segali or Segel), is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Alternate spellings include Sigel, Sigl, Siegl, and others. Alternate spellings include Sigel, Sigl, Siegl, and others. It can be traced to 11th century Bavaria and was used by people who made wax seals for or sealed official documents (each such male being ...