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Frisian Names

Alkema
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
Usage: Frisian
Means "from the farm named Alserd(a)".

Anema
Usage: Frisian
Means "son of Ane". Ane could be a short form of names starting with the element arn "eagle".

Anjema
Usage: Frisian
Means "son of Anje".

Annema
Usage: Frisian
Means "from Anne's farm". Anne is a variant of Ane.

Arkema
Usage: Frisian
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Means "son of Arke".

Atsma
Usage: Frisian
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
Usage: Frisian
Means "son of Auke". Auke is a diminutive of Aue, which might be from Augustine or Aurelius.

Baarda
Usage: Frisian
From a place name meaning "from Baard's farm". The given name Baard is from Bert.

Baarsma
Usage: Frisian
Means "son of Baard". The given name Baard is from Bert.

Bakema
Usage: Frisian
Means "son of Bake". The Frisian Bake is a diminutive of Baak, a short form of names starting with badu- ("fight, struggle").

Barwegen
Usage: Frisian
Derived from the name of a village in Friesland.

Bootsma
Usage: Dutch, Frisian
Occupational surname meaning "boatman", derived from the dutch word boot meaning "boat".

De Vries
Usage: Frisian
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Means "the Frisian" or "the Fries", referring to a person from Friesland.

Dijkstra
Usage: Frisian
Means from the dyke or near the dyke, from Frisian dijk.

Hansen (1)
Usage: Norwegian, Dutch, Frisian
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Means "son of Hans".

Herrema
Usage: Dutch, Frisian
From a Frisian diminutive of the given name Henry.

Hoekstra
Usage: Frisian
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A Frisian surname meaning "from the corner" or "corner farm".

Laninga
Usage: Frisian
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Frisian for "of the land," or "from the land". It could be understood as "works the land".

Reijnder
Usage: Dutch, Frisian
Variant of Reinder.

Reijnders
Usage: Dutch, Frisian
Variant of Reinder.

Reinder
Usage: Dutch, Frisian
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
Usage: Dutch, Frisian
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Variant of Reinder.

Reynder
Usage: Dutch, Frisian
Variant of Reinder.

Reynders
Usage: Dutch, Frisian
Variant of Reinder.

Rijnder
Usage: Dutch, Frisian
Variant of Reinder.

Rijnders
Usage: Dutch, Frisian
Variant of Rijnder.

Van Wieren
Usage: Frisian, Dutch
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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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