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Portuguese surnames commonly appear across the world especially in the Lusophone countries of Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Macao, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and Mozambique. Bold indicates common surnames Italics indicates uncommon surnames
The top ten surnames cover about 20% of the population, with important geographical differences. The regional distribution of surnames within Spain was homogenized mostly through internal migrations, especially since 1950. Names typical of the old crown of Castile have become the most common all over the country.
Names play a variety of roles in the Bible.They sometimes relate to the nominee's role in a biblical narrative, as in the case of Nabal, a foolish man whose name means "fool". [1]
Christian is an English surname from the Latin "Christianus" meaning follower of Christ, [1] from "christus" ("anointed"), created to translate the Hebrew messiah. [2] As one of the native Manx surnames , the name originates as an anglicisation of "Mac Christen"; [ 3 ] Notable people with the surname include:
It should only contain pages that are Feminine surnames or lists of Feminine surnames, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Feminine surnames in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
Mangalorean Catholic names and surnames encompass the different naming conventions of the Mangalorean Catholic community. Historically, many of them had names of Christian saints, while Portuguese-language surnames were most commonly found. [1] A formal Mangalorean Catholic name consists of a given name, a middle name, and a surname.
Palmer is a given name that is a transferred use of a surname meaning palm bearer or pilgrim. Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land traditionally carried the palms. [1] [2] [3]The name can also be given in reference to the palms that are traditionally carried by Christians on the Sunday before Easter Sunday.
Some of surname variants may be listed in the same page, while others, more popular ones, may deserve separate pages. Therefore in order to support search of similar surnames this template may include not only links to surname articles, but also redirects and links to disambiguation pages.