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2. Surname - Wikipedia

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   Surname. First/given/forename, middle, and last/family/surname with John Fitzgerald Kennedy as example. This shows a structure typical for Anglophonic cultures (and some others). Other cultures use other structures for full names. A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's ...

3. Given name - Wikipedia

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   A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name [1] that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term given name refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the ...

4. Shirley (name) - Wikipedia

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   Shirley is a given name and a surname originating from the English place-name Shirley, which is derived from the Old English elements scire ("shire") or scīr ("bright, clear") and lēah ("wood, clearing, meadow, enclosure"). The name makes reference to the open space where the moot (an early English assembly of freemen which met to administer ...

5. Stewart (name) - Wikipedia

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   Stewart is a Scottish surname, also used as a given name. It is possibly derived from the old English word "stigweard", a compound of "stig" meaning household, and "weard", a guardian (ward), or from the Gaelic Stiùbhart meaning steward. Alternative spellings are Stuart, Steward and Steuart. The surname Stewart has large concentrations in the United States (mainly in the Deep South, and the ...

6. Wilson (name) - Wikipedia

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   Wilson (name) Wilson is an English, Scottish, and Northern Irish surname, common in the English-speaking world, with several distinct origins. The name is derived from a patronymic form of Will, a popular medieval name. The medieval Will is derived from any of several names containing Old Norse or the first Germanic element wil, meaning "desire ...

7. Harrison (name) - Wikipedia

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   Harrison is a common patronymic surname of Northern English origin. It means "son of Harry " or "Herry", representing the Middle English pronunciation of the given name Henry. [1] [2] It was in use by the 14th century. [2] It may also be spelt Harrisson, Harryson or Harrysson.

8. Harvey (name) - Wikipedia

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   Harvey is an English and Scots family and given name derived from the Old Breton personal name Huiarnviu (or Aeruiu ), derived from the elements hoiarn, huiarn (modern Breton houarn) meaning "iron" and viu (Breton bev) meaning "blazing". [1] An alternative elemental derivation has been theorized in which origination is from haer + vy meaning ...

9. Hughes (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Origins. Hughes is an Anglicized spelling of the Welsh and Irish patronymic surname. The surname may also derive from the etymologically unrelated Picard variant Hugh (Old French Hue) of the Germanic name Hugo . In Wales and other areas of Brythonic Britain, the surname derives from the personal name "Hu" or "Huw", meaning "fire" or "inspiration".