Surnames

Reichert is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Dieudonné is a French name normally meaning "Gift of God", and thus similar to the Greek-derived Theodore, Hebrew-derived Matthew, or the Spanish Diosdado. It may refer to:

Kleiner () is a German or Jewish surname, meaning "smaller", "lesser", or "minor":

family name

Agafonov (; masculine) or Agafonova (; feminine) is a Russian surname. It derives from the given name Agafon, borrowed from Greek, where it meant kindness, goodness.

Greenspan is a typically Ashkenazi Jewish surname. It is the anglicized form of the Yiddish surname Grünspan (, actually referring to Copper(II) acetate which was commonly known as "Spanish green"). Cognate are the surnames Grynszpan, Grinszpan and Grinshpan (Poland, Romania, Hungary).

Savary is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:

male given name

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Mizuki is both a Japanese surname (水木, みずき, ミズキ) and a unisex Japanese given name which means "auspicious hope". Notable people with the name include:

Kaurismäki is a Finnish surname The name 'wikt:kauris' + wikt:mäki literally means "deer hill". Notable people with the surname include:

family name

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Velasco (also Belasco or Belasko) is a Basque family name. According to the academy of Basque language, it is derived from the Visigothic name 'Vela' (Vigila) and the Basque suffix –sco. The name also made its way into Portuguese as Vasco.

McLachlan ( ), McLachlan or McLaglen is a surname. It is derived from the Irish MacLachlainn, which is in turn a patronymic form of the Gaelic personal name Lachlann. Notable people with the surname include:

Procaccini is the name of a prominent family of artists from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, active mainly in Bologna and Milan. They include:

Eötvös is a Hungarian surname. It is derived from an old spelling of the Hungarian word ötvös, meaning "gold- and silversmith". __NOTOC__

Schütz (also spelled Schuetz without Umlaut ü) is a German surname, deriving from Schütze (shooter/marksman). Notable people with the surname include:

Wright is an occupational surname originating in England and Scotland. The term 'Wright' comes from the circa 700 AD Old English word wryhta or wyrhta, meaning "worker or shaper of wood". Later, the word referred to any occupational worker and came to be used as a surname.

Masaryk is a Slovak surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Calleja is a surname found in Spain (as well as countries with people of Hispanic descent) and Malta. It is unclear whether the Maltese and Spanish surnames are related or a coincidence, perhaps caused by romanisation.

Knop or Knope is a surname of Dutch and German origin.

Philidor (Filidor) or Danican Philidor was a family of musicians that served as court musicians to the French kings. The original name of the family was Danican (D'Anican) and was of Scottish origin (Duncan). Philidor was a later addition to the family name, given first to Michel the elder by Louis XIII because his oboe playing reminded the king of an Italian virtuoso oboist named Filidori. Both Michel the younger and Jean played in the Grande Écurie (literally, the Great Stable; figuratively, the Military Band) in Paris. Later members of the family were known as composers as well. One of them

Hayashi (林, literally "woods"), is the 19th most common Japanese surname. It shares the same character as the Chinese surname Lin and the Korean surname Im.

Göbel is a surname of Germanic origin. Persons with this name include:

Dzhugashvili or Jughashvili is a Georgian surname, a transliteration of ჯუღაშვილი. In Russian, it appears as .

Annam was a name for Vietnam used until 1945. Its usage varies depending on the time period and context. Đại Việt, Việt Nam, Đại Nam – official names of the country at different times Annam (French protectorate), a subdivision of French Indochina, used as an exonym; now the central region of Vietnam Annan (Tang protectorate), the southernmost province of Imperial China between 679–866, now northern Vietnam Annamite Range, a mountain range in Laos and Vietnam

Reinecke is a surname. Notable people with the name include

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Glick or Glik is a surname that is an Ashkenazi Jewish variation of the German surname Glück. Notable people and fictional characters with the surname include:

Hopkins is an English and Welsh patronymic surname derived from the personal name Hopkin and the genitive ending -s. Hopkin is itself a pet form of the name Hobb, a shortening of Robert (with alteration of the initial consonant). Notable people and characters with the surname include:

Burman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Bononcini is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

family name

McKeon and MacKeon are Irish surnames originating both from the Gaelic Mac Eoghain ("Son of Eoghan") and Mac Eoin ("Son of John"), which are pronounced identically. Other variants in English include MacEoin and McKeown. Notable people with the name include:

Plessner or Plesner is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Nicholas is a male name, the Anglophone version of an ancient Greek name in use since antiquity, and cognate with the modern Greek , . It originally derived from a combination of two Greek words meaning 'victory' and 'people'. In turn, the name means "victory of the people."

Blokhin (, ) might refer to one of the following: People Alexander Viktorovich Blokhin (born 1951), Russian diplomat Alexis Blokhina (born 2004), American tennis player Iryna Blokhina (born 1983), Ukrainian singer and poet, daughter of Oleh Blokhin (1912 - 1993), Soviet surgeon and oncologist Oleg Blokhin (born 1952), Soviet and Ukrainian football coach Oleh Olehovych Blokhin (born 1980), Ukrainian football player Sofia Blokhin (born 2006), Estonian chess player Tatyana Blokhina (born 1970), Russian heptathlete Vasili Blokhin (1895–1955), chief executioner during Stalin's purges Yevg

Orbach is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Yordanov () (masculine) or Yordanova () (feminine) popular surnames in Bulgaria. People commonly known by their family name Yordanov include:

Martine is a feminine given name and a surname.

Gheorghiu () is a Romanian surname, of Greek language origin, deriving from Greek Γεωργίου. Among Greeks, the Greek surname form Γεωργίου is usually or always Romanized in other ways, either as Gheorghiou or Georgiou.

Blomstedt is a Swedish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

family name

Kovalchuk (Ukrainian and Russian: Ковальчук), Kavalchuk (), Kowalczuk, Later Kovalčuk (Polish), Covalciuc (Romanian), also transliterated as Kowalchuk (in the North American diaspora), is a common East Slavic surname (one of the most popular in Ukraine). The Kovalchuk name extends back to before 1500 AD in Kievan Rus.

Alves is a surname that appears to originate both from Portugal and Scotland (in Scotland where a variation of the name can appear as Alvis). It is debatable whether the surname appeared first in one country or the other, since it is more prevalent in Portugal, but registered as far back as the 13th century in the church records at Alves, Moray, Northern Scotland. If from Portugal, it will have originated from the Germanic patronym son of Álvaro (Alvar, Alvarus).

Motyka () is a Polish and Ukrainian surname meaning "hoe". Notable people with the surname include: Józef Motyka (1900–1984), Polish botanist and lichenologist Grzegorz Motyka (born 1967), Polish historian Grzegorz Motyka (born 1972), Polish footballer Marek Motyka (born 1958), Polish footballer Miłosz Motyka (born 1992), Polish politician Stanisław Motyka (1906–1941), Polish skier Tomasz Motyka (born 1972), Polish footballer Tomasz Motyka (born 1981), Polish fencer Zdzisław Motyka (1907–1969), Polish skier

Nyman is an English and Swedish surname. The name originates from Anglo-Saxon culture. The name is derived from the words neowe, niwe, and nige which all mean new, and the word mann, meaning man. The name was traditionally given to newcomers. Other variations of the surname include: Newman, Newmen, and Newmin. People with this surname include:

Gómez (frequently anglicized as Gomez) is a common Spanish patronymic surname of Germanic origin meaning "son of Gome". The Portuguese and Old Galician version is Gomes, while the Catalan form is Gomis. The given name Gome is derived from the Visigothic word guma, "man", with multiple Germanic cognates with the same meaning (Old English guma, Middle English gome/gomo, High Old German gomo, Middle High German gome), which are related to Latin homo, "man". __NOTOC__

Abdi is an Arabic male name. ==Arabic name== While Arabic speakers commonly use Abdu (‎ / '') rather than Abdi, both are nicknames for Abdul. It originates from the Arabic word / / ''. The name translates as "servant of God" in reference to religious submission to Allah (God). As such, it is often used by Muslims around the world in conjunction with one of the names of God in Islam, but also sometimes on its own.

Sofie is a feminine given name and a surname. Notable bearers of the name include:

family name

family name

Wertheimer is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Kurochkin () is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Kurochkina. It may refer to Evgeny Kurochkin (1940–2011), Russian paleornithologist Kirill Kurochkin (born 1988), Russian football player Nikolai Kurochkin (1830–1884), Russian poet, editor, translator and essayist Olesya Kurochkina (born 1983), Russian football striker Pavel Kurochkin (1900–1989), Soviet general Vasily Kurochkin (1831–1875), Russian satirical poet, journalist and translator Victoria Kurochkina (born 1992), Russian water polo player Vladimir Kurochkin (1829–1885), Russian dramatist, translator, editor a

family name

Jafar (), meaning in Arabic "stream", is a masculine name of Arabic origin, common among middle eastern and Muslim men, especially in Iran.

family name

The Tamil and Malayali name Ramachandran may refer to: A. Ramachandran (1935–2024), an Indian painter A. Ramachandran (politician) the incumbent mayor of Salem, Tamil Nadu C. R. Ramachandran, an Indian politician G. Ramachandran (1904–1995), an Indian social reformer and politician Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran (1922–2001), an Indian biophysicist known for creating the Ramachandran plot K. V. Ramachandran (1898–1956), an Indian music and art critic M. Ramachandran, an Indian politician M. D. R. Ramachandran (1934–2024), an Indian politician M. G. Ramachandran, also known a

Schlegel is a German occupational surname. Notable people with the surname include: