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1. Family names are sometimes written with idiosyncratic characters, called ateji, that relate indirectly to the name as spoken.
2. Family names are often derived from a common genus within the family. (Web site)
3. Family names are an important part of the Chamorro culture.
4. Few family names are still in the original Latin, and usually they indicate from or with pretensions to antiquity, e.g.
5. For family names, the Angiosperm Phylogenetic Group standards were used (Bremer et al.

Street Names

1. The city has grown increasingly ethnically diverse but still bears many reminders of its Polish ancestry in family names, street names and businesses.

Three Names

1. There were very few family names in New Quay at this time with three names making up more than half the population. (Web site)

Japanese Names

1. A few Japanese names, particularly family names, include old-fashioned versions of characters.

Welsh Names

1. Eleanor Ann Bower - Florida The family names I have located are familiar with the Welsh names listed in North Wales history. (Web site)

Single Names

1. As the Roman Empire began to decline, family names became confused and single names once again became customary.

Occurring Chinese Family Names

1. Most commonly occurring Chinese family names have only one character; however, about twenty double-character family names have survived into the modern time.

Written

1. Many Bengali Brahmin family names are written in two different ways. (Web site)

History

1. The use of family names is not universal throughout history. (Web site)

Netherlands

1. Most Huguenot descendents in the Netherlands today are recognisable by French family names with typical Dutch given names.
2. So Napoleon's Decree on family names of 1811 for the Netherlands didn't immediately lead to the adoption of fixed family names by all Dutch inhabitants.

Nicknames

1. Nicknames were adapted into names of individual families, leading to "irregular" family names such as Tesla.

Von

1. Often, family names with a predicate were written "von X-Y", even though the correct form is "X von Y". (Web site)

Koreans

1. Except for royalty, most Koreans did not have family names.

Western Roman Empire

1. By the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, family names were uncommon in the Eastern Roman (i.e.

Malays

1. Malays do not use family names. (Web site)

Own Name

1. Each Polish coat of arms had its own name, which was typically different than the family names.

Royal Families

1. Also, many royal families do not use family names.

Last

1. Each person has usually two family names: the first is the maternal family name; the last is the paternal family name.

Last Name

1. So the terms "first name" and "last name" are potentially confusing and should be avoided, as they do not in this case denote the given and family names.

English

1. This is not the case due to the much larger set of words used as family names in English.

Common Names

1. Over time, many of these patronymics became family names and are some of the most common names in the Spanish-speaking world.

Proper Names

1. Onomastics is the study of proper names of all kinds, including family names.

Chinese Name

1. Other Chinese Indonesians, however, maintain their Chinese name as well as their family names.

Common

1. Flemings, and Anglo Saxons, which is why, in common with most of Pembrokeshire, the place names and even family names are anglicised.

Surnames

1. Javanese do not usually have family names or surnames. (Web site)

Family

1. To avoid threats to Sherman Austin and his family his home address and family names have been removed from these documents. (Web site)

Families

1. Family names The list below was originally created before the taxobox; families in the list below marked with a plus sign are extinct. (Web site)

Chinese

1. Transliteration of Chinese family names (see List of common Chinese surnames) into English poses a number of problems.
2. Each herb is identified by its pharmaceutical, pinyin, botanical, and family names, as well as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English common names.

Cultures

1. At the beginning they were not strictly inherited in the way that family names are inherited in many cultures today.

Prepositions

1. Conversely, family names using prepositions like "de" and "de la" could not replace the preposition with the Germanic "von". (Web site)
2. Because of the abolition of the prepositions, many families were forced to completely reinvent their family names.

Peasantry

1. The use of family names gradually spread to other social groups: the townsfolk by the end of the 17th century, then the peasantry, and finally the Jews.

Indonesia

1. Like the Chinese minority in Indonesia also most Indos have changed their family names to blend into mainstream society and prevent discrimination. (Web site)

Indonesians

1. Until recently, most Indonesians did not have family names.

Name

1. Like Chinese family names, they are placed at the beginning of a name, but unlike Chinese names, they are not usually the primary form of address.

Names

1. Family names in German-speaking countries are usually positioned last, after all given names.
2. Although given names appear before family names in most Romanian contexts, official documents invert the order, ostensibly for filing purposes.
3. The variety in Chinese names therefore depends greatly on given names rather than family names. (Web site)

Family Names

1. With a limited repertoire of family names, Chinese depend on using given names to introduce variety in naming. (Web site)
2. The use of family names today is widespread in cultures around the world although each culture has its own rules as to how these names are applied and used.
3. In parts of the world, family names did not appear in common use until the 17th to 19th centuries, and they are unused in some cultures even today.

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