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  2. List of Dutch family names - Wikipedia

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    This random sampling of Dutch family names is sorted by family name, with the tussenvoegsel following the name after a comma. Meanings are provided where known. See Category:Dutch-language surnames and Category:Surnames of Frisian origin for surnames with their own pages. Baas – The Boss; Bakker – Baker; Beek, van – From the brook

  3. Kahnawake surnames - Wikipedia

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    The origins of some of Kahnawake's European family names were first published by Father Forbes in 1899. [2] Below is detailed history of Kahnawake's most common surnames of European / North American origin. Beauvais: the first Beauvais was André Karhaton, who married Marie-Anne Kahenratas before 1743. He was a young man from the Beauvais ...

  4. List of Canadian provincial and territorial name etymologies

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    Iroquoian, Wyandot. Ontarí꞉io or Skanadario. "Great lake" or "beautiful water", after Lake Ontario [13] [14] Prince Edward Island. English (ultimately from Old English) After Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, ultimately from the Anglo-Saxon ead "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and weard "guardian, protector" [15] Quebec.

  5. Canadian name - Wikipedia

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    This was a family nickname (literally a 'said name'). [9] The origins of the noms-dits were various. Some noms-dits were the war-name of the first settler, while he was a soldier: Hébert dit Jolicœur (Pretty Heart, cf. Braveheart), Thomas dit Tranchemontagne (mountain chopper). Some denoted the place of origin of the first settler: Langevin ...

  6. Lists of most common surnames in North American countries

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    Some very common Swedish names were so similar that only a minor change of spelling was necessary, such as Andersson and Jonsson, which is why these names are much more common in the U.S. than in the United Kingdom. British surnames such as Williams, Jackson, Robinson, Harris, Davis, Brown and Jones are also common among people of non-British ...

  7. Chen (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Chen is also the most common family name in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Macau, and Hong Kong. It is the most common surname in Xiamen, the ancestral hometown of many overseas Hoklo. [3] Chen was listed 10th in the Hundred Family Surnames poem, in the verse 馮陳褚衛 (Féng Chén Chǔ Wèi).

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