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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.

American-French Genealogical Society - Surname Variations

Ancestry.com - Hispanic Surnames and Family History, 1996 $

Original source: Platt, Lyman D. Hispanic Names and Family History. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - Last Name Meanings and Origins | Search Surnames at Ancestry.com

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 (und seltene) Vornamen

Popular and rare given names in Germany from the 1890s through present.

beliebte Vornamen: Hitlisten 1890 - 2008

The most popular first names in Germany since 1890.

Colonial Naming Patterns

[The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Cornish First Names

Cornish Surnames

Names starting with these old Celtic Cornish words.

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

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.

FamilySearch Wiki - Germany Personal Names

Friesche Naamlijst (Frisian Name List)

A free, downloadable 447-page book of the meaning of Frisian names, both first names and surnames. Written in Dutch, but easily translated when you type the text into Google translate (http://translate.google.com).