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Germán (Spanish pronunciation:) is a male given name in Spanish speaking countries. It is a cognate to French Germain , and is a variant of Latin Germanus . Surname
German (Russian: Герман) is a given name, often the Slavic form of Herman. For the Spanish given name pronounced with stress in the second syllable see Germán . People with the name German include:
About 13% of the German population today has names of Slavic origin. Many Austrians also have surnames of Slavic origin. Polish names in Germany abound as a result of over 100,000 people (including 130,000 "Ruhrpolen") immigrating westward from the Polish-speaking areas of the German Empire.
This is a list of some Spanish words of Germanic origin. The list includes words from Visigothic , Frankish , Langobardic , Middle Dutch , Middle High German , Middle Low German , Old English , Old High German , Old Norse , Old Swedish , English , and finally, words which come from Germanic with the specific source unknown.
De – (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Filipino) "of"; indicates region of origin, often a sign of nobility; in Spanish-speaking countries a married woman will sometimes append her name with "de XXXX" [citation needed] where "XXXX" is her husband's last name; "the"
The English noun "german" (as in "cousin-german") and the adjective "germane" are not connected to the name for the country, but come from the Latin germanus, "siblings with the same parents or father", which has cognates in Catalan, germà, and Spanish, hermano, meaning "brother".
Pages in category "Spanish surnames of Germanic origin" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The surname is thus a toponymic surname, and would originally have been given to a person of German origin in a Romance speaking area. Variants of the surname include English (from Norman French) Allman , [ 1 ] Alleman , [ 2 ] French Allemand , Spanish Aleman ( Alemán ), among others.