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18th Century PA German Name Spelling Idiosyncrasies

18th Century PA German Naming Customs

18th Century PA German Nicknames

A Dictionary of Period Russian Names

American Names / Declaring Independence

Discusses name changes at Ellis Island. From the US Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Ancestry.com - Italian Naming Customs

Article by John Philip Colletta.

Ancestry.com - Search Reference Materials & Finding Aids Records

Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Ancient Irish Proper Names

An examination of the origin and meaning of some Irish surnames and forenames, taken from John O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation.

BBC - History - What's In a Name Your Link to the Past

beliebte Vornamen: Hitlisten 1890 - 2008

The most popular first names in Germany since 1890.

British Surname Studies

British Surnames: First-names, Localities, Occupations, Nicknames

Colonial Naming Patterns

Cornish First Names

Cornish Surnames

Names starting with these old Celtic Cornish words.

Dictionary of Flemish First Names with Translation in Latin and French

Die beliebtesten Vornamen

The most popular boys and girls forenames in Germany for the years 1995 to 1997. In German.

Equivalent Czechslovakian, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak, Russian & Yiddish Foreign Given Names Updated

Equivalent Given Names

A useful list of first, a.k.a. given names, and their version as spelled in many different languages. This is a very comprehensive 114 page fully searchable pdf containing thousands of first names. Languages included are English, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Yiddish, and more.

German Names

An online article in three parts on German names.