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Cockburn ( / ˈkoʊbərn / KOH-bərn, Scots: [ˈkobʌɾn]) is a Scottish surname that originated in the Borders region of the Scottish Lowlands. In the United States most branches of the same family have adopted the simplified spelling ' Coburn '; other branches have altered the name slightly to ' Cogburn '. The French branch of the family uses ...
M (a)cLaughlin / mɪˈklɒxlɪn / is the most common Anglicized form of Mac Lochlainn, a masculine surname of Irish origin. The feminine form of the surname is Nic Lochlainn. The literal meaning of the name is "son of Lochlann ". [ 2] Note that Mc is simply a contraction of Mac, which is also (albeit rarely) truncated to M' .
Llywelyn (pronounced [ɬəˈwɛlɪn]) is a Welsh personal name, which has also become a family name most commonly spelt Llewellyn [1] (/ l u ˈ ɛ l ɪ n / loo-EL-in).The name has many variations and derivations, mainly as a result of the difficulty for non-Welsh speakers of representing the sound of the initial double ll (a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative).
Schuyler (name) Schuyler ( / ˈskaɪlər /, / ˈskɔɪlər /; Dutch pronunciation: [sxœylər]) is a Dutch surname which, along with many variants, including Schuller, [1] is an adaptation of the German name Schüler. [2] The name was introduced to North America by 17th-century settlers arriving in New York City. It later became a given name in ...
Cochrane is a surname with multiple independent origins, two Scottish and one Irish. One of the Scottish names derives from a place in Scotland; the Irish surname and the other Scottish surname are both anglicisations of surnames from the Irish language and Scottish Gaelic respectively.
Hanoi: [ŋwiə̯n˧ˀ˥] Saigon: [ŋwiə̯ŋ˧˩˧] Language (s) Vietnamese. Other names. Variant form (s) Ruan, Yuen. Nguyễn (sometimes abbreviated as Ng̃) is the most common surname of the Vietnamese people. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen.
The surname " Wagner " is derived from the Germanic surname Waganari, meaning ' wagonmaker ' or 'wagon driver.'. The surname is German but is also well-established in Scandinavia, the Netherlands, eastern Europe, and elsewhere as well as in all German-speaking countries, and among Ashkenazi Jews .
Brian (sometimes spelled Bryan in English) is a male given name of Irish and Breton origin, [ 1] as well as a surname of Occitan origin. [ 2] It is common in the English-speaking world . It is possible that the name is derived from an Old Celtic word meaning "high" or "noble". [ 1] For example, the element bre means "hill"; which could be ...