the etymology and history of surnames
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| Alkema |
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Usage: Frisian
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| Means "son of Alke". Alke is a form of Ale, which is the short form for names starting with the element adal "noble". |
| Alserda |
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Usage: Frisian
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| Means "from the farm named Alserd(a)". |
| Anema |
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Usage: Frisian
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| Means "son of Ane". Ane could be a short form of names starting with the element arn "eagle". |
| Anjema |
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Usage: Frisian
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| Means "son of Anje". |
| Annema |
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Usage: Frisian
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| Means "from Anne's farm". Anne is a variant of Ane. |
| Arkema |
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Usage: Frisian
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| Means "son of Arke". |
| Atsma |
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Usage: Frisian
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| Means "son of Atse". Atse is a variant of Ad(d)e or At(t)e, from names starting with adel "noble" or from Adriaan. |
| Aukema |
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Usage: Frisian
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| Means "son of Auke". Auke is a diminutive of Aue, which might be from Augustine or Aurelius. |
| Baarda |
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Usage: Frisian
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| From a place name meaning "from Baard's farm". The given name Baard is from Bert. |
| Baarsma |
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Usage: Frisian
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| Means "son of Baard". The given name Baard is from Bert. |
| Bakema |
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Usage: Frisian
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| Means "son of Bake". The Frisian Bake is a diminutive of Baak, a short form of names starting with badu- ("fight, struggle"). |
| Barwegen |
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Usage: Frisian
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| Derived from the name of a village in Friesland. |
| Bootsma |
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Usage: Dutch, Frisian
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| Occupational surname meaning "boatman", derived from the dutch word boot meaning "boat". |
| De Vries |
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Usage: Frisian
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| Means "the Frisian" or "the Fries", referring to a person from Friesland. |
| Dijkstra |
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Usage: Frisian
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| Means from the dyke or near the dyke, from Frisian dijk. |
| Hansen (1) |
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Usage: Norwegian, Dutch, Frisian
Extra: Statistics |
| Means "son of Hans". |
| Herrema |
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Usage: Dutch, Frisian
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| From a Frisian diminutive of the given name Henry. |
| Hoekstra |
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Usage: Frisian
Extra: Statistics |
| A Frisian surname meaning "from the corner" or "corner farm". |
| Laninga |
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Usage: Frisian
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| Frisian for "of the land," or "from the land". It could be understood as "works the land". |
| Reijnder |
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Usage: Dutch, Frisian
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| Variant of Reinder. |
| Reijnders |
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Usage: Dutch, Frisian
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| Variant of Reinder. |
| Reinder |
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Usage: Dutch, Frisian
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| Derived from the Frisian given name Reinder, which is a form of the Dutch given name Reinier. Reinier is the Dutch variant of Rayner. |
| Reinders |
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Usage: Dutch, Frisian
Extra: Statistics |
| Variant of Reinder. |
| Reynder |
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Usage: Dutch, Frisian
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| Variant of Reinder. |
| Reynders |
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Usage: Dutch, Frisian
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| Variant of Reinder. |
| Rijnder |
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Usage: Dutch, Frisian
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| Variant of Reinder. |
| Rijnders |
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Usage: Dutch, Frisian
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| Variant of Rijnder. |
| Van Wieren |
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Usage: Frisian, Dutch
Extra: Statistics |
| It means "from Wieren". It originated in Friesland and other parts of the Netherlands. Wieren, the name of several towns, means "seaweed". |
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