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Americanized spelling of Danish and North German Jepsen.English
Americanized spelling of Danish and North German Jepsen.English : patronymic from a short form of Jeffrey.
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English, Danish, and German
English, Danish, and German : from a short form of the various Germanic compound names with a first element wolf ‘wolf’, or a byname or nickname with this meaning. The wolf was native throughout the forests of Europe, including Britain, until comparatively recently. In ancient and medieval times it played an important role in Germanic mythology, being regarded as one of the sacred beasts of Woden. This name is widespread throughout northern, central, and eastern Europe, as well as in Britain and German-speaking countries.German : habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a wolf, Middle High German wolf.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish male personal name Volf meaning ‘wolf’, which is associated with the Hebrew personal name Binyamin (see Benjamin). This association stems from Jacob’s dying words ‘Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil’ (Genesis 49:27).Irish : variant spelling of Woulfe.
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English, Danish, Dutch, etc. : variant of Jan.Chinese : variant of Ren 1.
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German and Danish
German and Danish : variant of Wurm.English : nickname from Middle English wurm ‘serpent’, ‘dragon’ (Old English wyrm).
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Danish
Danish : habitational name from a place named Lisby.English : unexplained. Possibly a habitational name; it may be a variant of Lusby or from a lost or unidentified place.
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Danish
Danish : variant of Ibsen.German : from the Germanic personal name Ivo (see Iwen).English : when not of Danish or German origin, possibly a variant of Ipstone, a habitational name from Ibstones, a place in Staffordshire, or from Ipsden in Oxfordshire.
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Danish and German
Danish and German : variant of Wente.English : topographic name from Middle English went(e) ‘crossroad’.
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English, Swedish (Martinsson), Norwegian and Danish (Martinsen)
English, Swedish (Martinsson), Norwegian and Danish (Martinsen) : patronymic from the personal name Martin.
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English, Norwegian, and Danish
English, Norwegian, and Danish : variant of Lund.
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North German, Dutch, and Danish
North German, Dutch, and Danish : from a pet form of Hans or Heinrich.English : in part the German, Dutch, or Danish name (see 1), but possibly in some cases a variant of Scottish Hanning.Norwegian : habitational name from a farm in Trøndelag. The first element is of uncertain origin, possibly from hein ‘whetstone’; the second element is from Old Norse vin ‘meadow’.Swedish : probably of the same origin as 1.
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Danish and Norwegian
Danish and Norwegian : patronymic from the personal name Ivar, from Old Norse Ãvarr, a compound of either Ãv ‘yew tree’, ‘bow’ or Ing (the name of a god) + ar ‘warrior’ or ‘spear’.North German (Frisian) : patronymic from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements Ä«wa ‘yew (tree)’ + hard ‘strong’, ‘firm’.English : variant spelling of Iverson.
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English, French, Danish, Dutch, and German
English, French, Danish, Dutch, and German : from a short form of the personal name Matthias (see Matthew) or any of its many cognates, for example Norman French Maheu.English, French, Dutch, and German : from a nickname or personal name taken from the month of May (Middle English, Old French mai, Middle High German meie, from Latin Maius (mensis), from Maia, a minor Roman goddess of fertility). This name was sometimes bestowed on someone born or baptized in the month of May; it was also used to refer to someone of a sunny disposition, or who had some anecdotal connection with the month of May, such as owing a feudal obligation then.English : nickname from Middle English may ‘young man or woman’.Irish (Connacht and Midlands) : when not of English origin (see 1–3 above), this is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Miadhaigh ‘descendant of Miadhach’, a personal name or byname meaning ‘honorable’, ‘proud’.French : habitational name from any of various places called May or Le May.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Mayen, a place in western Germany.Americanized spelling of cognates of 1 in various European languages, for example Swedish Ma(i)j.Chinese : possibly a variant of Mei 1, although this spelling occurs more often for the given name than for the surname.Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, is named after the Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobsen May.
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Americanized form of Swedish Larsson, Danish and Norwegian Larsen.English
Americanized form of Swedish Larsson, Danish and Norwegian Larsen.English : patronymic from a pet form of Lawrence.
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English, North German, Danish, and Norwegian
English, North German, Danish, and Norwegian : topographic name for someone who lived in or by a small wood, Middle English, Middle Low German, Danish, Norwegian holt, or a habitational name from one of the very many places named with this word. In England the surname is widely distributed, but rather more common in Lancashire than elsewhere.Shortened form of Dutch van Holt, a habitational name from places named Holt (see 1).
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Altered spelling of Danish Endersen, a patronymic from the personal name Endricht, probably of Low German or Frisian origin.Altered spelling of Norwegian Endresen, a common patronymic from Endre, from the Old Norse personal name Eindri{dh}i, composed of t
Altered spelling of Danish Endersen, a patronymic from the personal name Endricht, probably of Low German or Frisian origin.Altered spelling of Norwegian Endresen, a common patronymic from Endre, from the Old Norse personal name Eindri{dh}i, composed of the elements ein ‘one’, ‘sole’ + ri{dh}i ‘rider’.English : variant of Anderson, a patronymic from the personal name Anders.
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English, German, Danish, and Swedish
English, German, Danish, and Swedish : nickname or byname for someone of a frosty or gloomy temperament, from Middle English, Middle High German, Danish, Swedish winter (Old English winter, Old High German wintar, Old Norse vetr). The Swedish name can be ornamental.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Winter ‘winter’, either an ornamental name or one of the group of names denoting the seasons, which were distributed at random by government officials. Compare Summer, Fruhling, and Herbst.Irish : Anglicized form ( part translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla-Gheimhridh ‘son of the lad of winter’, from geimhreadh ‘winter’. This name is also Anglicized McAlivery.Mistranslation of French Livernois, which is in fact a habitational name, but mistakenly construed as l’hiver ‘winter’.
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English, German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English, German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Wild.Thomas Wilder is recorded as a freeman of Charlestown, MA, in 1640. He had numerous prominent descendents.
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English, Scottish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, and Dutch
English, Scottish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, and Dutch : from the Scandinavian personal name Magnus. This was borne by Magnus the Good (died 1047), king of Norway, who was named for the Emperor Charlemagne, Latin Carolus Magnus ‘Charles the Great’. The name spread from Norway to the eastern Scandinavian royal houses, and became popular all over Scandinavia and thence in the English Danelaw.
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German and Danish
German and Danish : metonymic occupational name for a salmon fisher or a seller of salmon, Middle High German lahs ‘salmon’.English (northeastern counties) and Danish : from an Old Norse nickname, Lax, meaning ‘salmon’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Lachs ‘salmon’, Yiddish laks, one of the many Ashkenazic surnames taken from words denoting fish, birds, and animals.
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English, German, Danish, and Swedish
English, German, Danish, and Swedish : nickname for someone of an icy and unbending disposition or who had white hair or a white beard, from Old English, Old High German, Old Norse frost ‘frost’, or in the case of the Swedish name from a byname with the same meaning.
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Gujarati, Indian, Traditional
Strength
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Triumph
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Focused
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Assamese, Bengali, Celebrity, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu, Traditional
Vishnu; Husband of Goddess Lakshmi
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Indian, Sanskrit
Victorious; Sharp; Earth; Beautiful
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English
English : perhaps a variant of Babb. In the British Isles it is now most common in mid-Wales and in the border county of Shropshire, where it is recorded from the 16th century.William Bebb (1802–73), Governor of OH 1846–48, was a descendant of an immigrant from Montgomeryshire, Wales.
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Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Sanskrit
Prudent
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Arabic
Moon
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Goddess Saraswati, India
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Bright
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Danish.
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A Danish coin worth about fifty-four cents. It was the former unit of value in Denmark.
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East men; Danish settlers in Ireland, formerly so called.
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The language of the Danes.
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A chief; an earl; in English history, one of the leaders in the Danish and Norse invasions.
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An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm.
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Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish anatomist.
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A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.
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Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country.