A search engine is promising to identify the region of Greece one may come from by simply typing one's Greek surname.

Toponymic – these names are derived from place of residence, birth or family origin. Like: Brzeziński. Patronymic – usually derived from a person's given name and usually ends in a suffix suggesting a ...

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The ancient Welsh patronymic naming system can cause significant problems for genealogists. The old tendency to anglicise Welsh names can also present another hurdle for Welsh genealogists.

In Old Norse society, family affiliation was nominally declared by a patronymic naming system, in which sons and daughters were customarily (though not inevitably) identified by their filial ...

Н. Толстого; Public domain The full name of a Russian person consists of the first name and patronymic e.g. Лев Николаевич (Lev Nikolaevich). The full name is normally used ...

and Mr. Bell preserves a silence singularly at variance with his patronymic. The only public demonstration of principle that we have seen is an emblematic bell drawn upon a wagon by a single horse ...

Indeed, Bartholomew is a patronymic, "son of Talmai," which means "bold, spirited" (see also Jesus of Navi 15:14; II Kings 3:3), and Nathanael could have had this as a surname. According to the ...

a patronymic which is the first of many tips of the hat to Tolstoy. Count Rostov was first introduced to audiences in Amor ...

Jayasree Kalathil’s translation replicates the disruptive madness of Maria’s mind in the structure of the prose.