Cosmicdaze's Personal Name List
Brinkerhoff
Usage:
German
From a German place name meaning
"farm near a slope"
.
Holt
Usage:
English, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced:
HOLT
(
English
)
From Old English, Old Dutch and Old Norse
holt
meaning
"forest"
.
Kalbfleisch
Usage:
German
Occupational name for a butcher who dealt in veal, from German
kalb
meaning "calf" and
fleisch
meaning "meat".
Lichtenberg
Usage:
Jewish
Means
"light hill"
in German.
Van Agteren
Usage:
Dutch
Means
"from behind"
, probably referring to a place behind something, such as a building or a place at the end of the road.
Van Laar
Usage:
Dutch
Derived from Dutch
laar
(plural
laren
), which means
"open spot in the forest"
. These areas were used to graze cattle for example.
Van Leeuwenhoek
Usage:
Dutch
Variant of
Leeuwenhoek
. A famous bearer of this surname is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), a pioneer in the field of microscopy.
Yamada
Usage:
Japanese
Other Scripts:
山田
(
Japanese Kanji
)
やまだ
(
Japanese Hiragana
)
Pronounced:
YA-MA-DA
From Japanese
山
(
yama
)
meaning "mountain" and
田
(
ta
)
meaning "field, rice paddy".
Yamamoto
Usage:
Japanese
Other Scripts:
山本
(
Japanese Kanji
)
やまもと
(
Japanese Hiragana
)
Pronounced:
YA-MA-MO-TO
From Japanese
山
(
yama
)
meaning "mountain" and
本
(
moto
)
meaning "base, root, origin".
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