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Abramov (male) and Abramova (female) are old Russian surnames originating around the 16th century. Variations of the former calendar name Avraam. The surname was common among all social estates and covered the whole territory of the Russian Empire. Sometimes it derived from patronymic.
Schaefer is an alternative spelling and cognate for the German word schäfer, meaning 'shepherd', which itself descends from the Old High German scāphare. Variants "Shaefer", "Schäfer", the additional alternative spelling "Schäffer", and the anglicised forms "Schaeffer", "Schaffer", "Shaffer", "Shafer", and "Schafer" are all common surnames.
Apfelbaum is a Jewish surname. It may refer to:
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Kass is a surname. It originated in several different ways, including as a nickname in former eastern territories of Germany from the Czech word kos, from the Estonian word kass meaning cat, from the given name Gazo, as an Ashkenazi Jewish surname from the given name Casriel, and possibly as an Americanized spelling of Káš or Kaše. The 2010 United States census found 3,796 people with the surname Kass, making it the 8,655th-most-common surname in the country, compared to 3,523 people (8,599th-most-common) in the 2000 census. In both US censuses, more than nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as non-Hispanic white.
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Glass or Glaß is a surname with several sources. It can be English, German, Russian/Slavic, Irish or Scottish. Many with the last name Glass, are of eastern European descent, where Glass is a shortened version of their original last name. It is also a Jewish surname, adopted by some Eastern European Ashkenazi in the nineteenth century. After being forced by the authorities to take on a surname, Jews in this area typically chose names referring to places, animals, occupations or signifying personal traits. The name Glass referred to Glass-making, Glazing and the Glass trade.
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References
- ↑ Guggenheimer, Heinrich Walter; Guggenheimer, Eva Auguste Horowitz (1992). Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary. Hoboken, N.J: KTAV Publishing House. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-88125-297-2. OCLC 25093664 . Retrieved 6 April 2019.
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