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About 13% of the German population today has names of Slavic origin. Many Austrians also have surnames of Slavic origin. Polish names in Germany abound as a result of over 100,000 people (including 130,000 "Ruhrpolen") immigrating westward from the Polish-speaking areas of the German Empire.
German name. Personal names in German-speaking Europe consist of one or several given names (Vorname, plural Vornamen) and a surname (Nachname, Familienname). The Vorname is usually gender-specific. A name is usually cited in the "Western order" of "given name, surname".
The official name of the country is Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland). The terms Westdeutschland and Ostdeutschland are still used for the western and the eastern parts of the German territory, respectively. The Holy Roman Empire, 1789. German Confederation, 1815–1866.
Bauder. Baudisch. Bauer (surname) Bauernfeind. (previous page) (next page) Categories: German language. Surnames by language. Germanic-language surnames.
Meyer is an originally German, Dutch and Jewish surname. ... Its original meaning in Middle High German is from mei(g)er, "manager (of a lord's country estate)", ...
The common Korean surname Kim is also the common Chinese surname Jin, and written 金. The common Mandarin surnames Lin or Lim (林) is also one and the same as the common Cantonese or Vietnamese surname Lam and Korean family name Lim (written/pronounced as Im in South Korea).
Walter is a German, English [1] masculine given name of Germanic origin, composed of the elements walt-(Proto-Germanic *wald-) "power", "ruler", and hari (Proto-Germanic *χarja) "army". [2] The name was first popularized by the epic German hero Walther von Aquitaine, and later from the name of the writer Walther von der Vogelweide.
Zimmerman. Zimmerman is a surname variant of the German Zimmermann, meaning "carpenter" (literally "room man"). The modern German terms for carpenter are Zimmerer, Tischler, or Schreiner, but Zimmermann is still used. It is also commonly associated with Ashkenazi Jews.