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Example sentences for: surnames

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Emidio de Felice, the maestro of Italian anthroponymy and author of I Cognomi Italiani (Bologna: Il mulino, 1981) and Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (Milano: A. Mondadori, 1978), has estimated that no fewer than 15 per cent of all Italian surnames have their origin in nicknames.
All of these suffixes show up again and again in surnames, so they can be quickly recognized.
It contains entries, says the Introduction, “for most major surnames of European origin, as well as for many rarer ones.”
Here is an example from my own field, Jewish family names: the bibliography lists Benzion C. Kaganoff's A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History , but the few times this work is cited in A Dictionary of Surnames , a disclaimer follows immediately to the effect that no support could be found for Kaganoff's explanation (at the name Gordon for instance).
There was also a fashion that men with common surnames were known by their mothers' names.