Behind the Name: Addycakes's Personal Name List

Bismarck

Usage: German

Pronounced: bismark

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Noble family from the Altmark Region.

Bonaparte

Usage: Italian (Rare), French (Rare), Judeo-Italian (Rare), American (Rare), Caribbean (Rare)

Pronounced: BAWN-A-PART(French) BAHN-ə-pahrt(American) BON-ə-pahrt(American)

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Variant and French form of Buonaparte. This is also a Jewish surname. A notable bearer was Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1820), who ruled as Emperor of France from 1804 through 1814 and again briefly in 1815, who was of Italian (Tuscan) ancestry. This surname was also adopted by admirers of Napoleon in North America and the Caribbean.

Khan

Usage: Urdu, Pashto, Bengali

Other Scripts: خان(Urdu, Pashto) খান(Bengali)

Pronounced: KAN(Bengali)

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From a title meaning "king, ruler", probably of Mongolian origin but used in many languages.

Ó Baoghill

Usage: Irish

Pronounced: O BEE-yəl

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Irish Gaelic form of Boyle.

O'Hara

Usage: Irish

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From the Irish Ó hEaghra, which means "descendant of Eaghra", Eaghra being a given name of uncertain origin. Supposedly, the founder of the clan was Eaghra, a 10th-century lord of Luighne. A famous fictional bearer of this surname is Scarlett O'Hara, a character in Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind (1936).

Quattrocchi

Usage: Italian

Pronounced: kwat-TRAWK-kee

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From Italian quattro meaning "four" and occhi meaning "eyes", a nickname for a person who wore glasses. It is usually found in Sicily.