List of family name affixes

Family name affixes are a clue for surname etymology and can sometimes determine the ethnic origin of a person. This is a partial list of affixes.

Prefixes

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Arabic

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Armenian

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Berber

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Dutch

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German

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  • von – (German) "of", "from"; often a sign of nobility, but also just a geographical term of the name originated of a location.
  • zu - (German) "at"; a sign of nobility, sometimes in the combination von und zu, meaning the noble family still owns the place of naming

Hebrew

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Irish

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  • Mac, Mc – (Irish) "son of".[3] Both Mac and Mc are sometimes written Mac and Mc (with superscript ac or c). Mc is pronounced Mac.
  • Ni, Nic – (Irish) "daughter of", from Irish "iníon" meaning "daughter"[4]
  • O', Ó – (Irish) "son of", "grandson of", "descendant of"[5]
  • – (Irish) "daughter of", "granddaughter of", "(female) descendant of"[6]

Italian

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Romanian

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Welsh

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Other

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Suffixes

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See also

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References

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  2. ^ Wynbrandt, James; Gerges, Fawaz A. (2010). A Brief History of Saudi Arabia. Infobase. p. xvii. ISBN 978-0816078769.
  3. ^ "Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla (Ó Dónaill): mac". www.teanglann.ie. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  4. ^ "Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla (Ó Dónaill): ní". www.teanglann.ie. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  5. ^ "Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla (Ó Dónaill): ó". www.teanglann.ie. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  6. ^ "Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla (Ó Dónaill): uí". www.teanglann.ie. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  7. ^ a b "BBC Wales - History - Themes - Welsh naming". BBC. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  8. ^ "Wales Personal Names - FamilySearch". www.familysearch.org. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
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  11. ^ "Normativa". Universitat Illes Balears.
  12. ^ O'Growney, Eugene (1898). "The 'Muls' and Gils': Some Irish Surnames". Library Ireland. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  13. ^ O Flannghaile, Thomas (1896). "Mac, Kil-, Gil-, Mal- prefixes to Celtic Surnames". Library Ireland. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  14. ^ "Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla (Ó Dónaill): ní". www.teanglann.ie. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  15. ^ "Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla (Ó Dónaill): ó". www.teanglann.ie. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  16. ^ "CornishStuff - Local Cornish News".
  17. ^ a b c Votruba, Martin. "Last Names in -ák". Slovak Studies Program. University of Pittsburgh.
  18. ^ Sakhrani, Tarun (4 January 2016). "The Sindhis of Sindh And Beyond". Huffington Post. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  19. ^ "German Place Names ending in -AU".
  20. ^ a b c d e f g h Megerdoomian, Karine (February 2008). "The Structure of Persian Names". Mitre Technical Report. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.717.1899.
  21. ^ a b Votruba, Martin. "Last Names in -ík". Slovak Studies Program. University of Pittsburgh.
  22. ^ Rixner, T.A. (1830). "Handwörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache". Vol. 1 A-K, Page 290. 1830 Sulzbach / Germany.
  23. ^ Weekley, Ernest (1914). The Romance of Names. E.P. Dutton.
  24. ^ An Old Phonographer (October 9, 1886). "Aristocratic Surnames". The Critic. 9 (145): 178. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
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