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  2. Gee (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Gee is a surname with various etymological origins. In English, it may be derived from Gee Cross , Stockport , Cheshire , which was named after a Gee family, or from the French personal name Guy or from the word geai meaning "jay bird" referring to someone who was a "bright chatterbox". [ 1 ]

  3. Ge (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Ge (Chinese: 葛; pinyin: Gě) is a surname of Chinese origin.One branch of the family became the compound surname Zhuge.In 2013 it was found to be the 110th most common surname, composed of 1.95 million people or 0.150% of the total national population, with the province with the largest population being Jiangsu. [1]

  4. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    E – "and", between surnames (Maria Eduarda de Canto e Mello) [citation needed] Fitz – (Irish, from Norman French) "son of", from Latin " filius" meaning "son" (mistakenly thought to mean illegitimate son, because of its use for certain illegitimate sons of English kings) [citation needed]

  5. Gee - Wikipedia

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    English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... Gee is the phonetic pronunciation of the letter ... Gee (surname) Gee (nickname) Gee Tucker (born 1946), American ...

  6. List of country-name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The meaning and origin of name of Latvian people is unclear, however the root lat-/let- is associated with several Baltic hydronyms and might share common origin with the Liet-part of neighbouring Lithuania (Lietuva, see below) and name of Latgalians – one of the Baltic tribes that are considered ancestors of modern Latvian people.

  7. George (given name) - Wikipedia

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    The word georgos itself is ultimately a combination of two Greek words: ge (γῆ), 'earth, soil' and ergon (ἔργον), 'work'. Aelius Herodianus (fl. 2nd century AD), a Roman-era Greek grammarian and writer, determined Georgios to be a theophoric name , or a name created to honor a deity, a nod to Zeus Georgos , or " Zeus the Farmer" in ...

  8. Yoe (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Yoe is an English surname.It is a variant spelling of Yeo, meaning "river".The word comes from Old English ea, via south-western Middle English ya, yo, or yeo.According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 16 people on the island of Great Britain and none on the island of Ireland with the surname Yoe as of 2011.

  9. 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.

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