Maurer is a German surname, translating in English to "bricklayer" or "wall builder." Notable people with the surname include:
Krauss is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Baum is a German surname meaning "tree". Notable people with this surname include:
Kohut, Kogut, or Kohout is a surname of Slavic-language origin, meaning rooster. Notable people with the surname include:
Siegel, is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname. It can be traced to 11th century Bavaria and was used by people who made wax seals for or sealed official documents. Alternate spellings include Sigel, Sigl, Siegl, and others. "Siegel" is also the modern German word for seal. The name ultimately derives from the Latin sigillum, meaning "seal" as in the Seal of the City of New York: Sigillum Civitatis Novi Eboraci. The Germanicized derivative of the name was given to professional seal makers and engravers. Some researchers have attributed the surname to Sigel, referring to Sól (Sun), the goddess of the sun in Germanic mythology, but that is highly speculative.
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.
Pohl is a German surname of several possible origins.
Kroll or Kröll is a German, Anglo-Saxon, and Scottish surname.
Spears is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kowalewski is a Polish surname. It may refer to:
Gans is a Dutch and German noun meaning "goose". It is also a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Eisen is a German surname meaning "iron". Notable people with the surname include:
Sauter is a surname of German origin. The name refers to:
Herzog is a German-language surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Chiari is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Carle or Carlé is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Dirk is a male given name of Dutch origin. It is a traditional diminutive of the Dutch name Diederik. The meaning of the name is "the people's ruler", composed of þeud ("people") and ric ("power"). Dirk may also be a surname. It is cognate to French Thierry, German Dietrich and Gothic Theoderic.
Volk is a surname. It means wolf in several Slavic languages, and it refers to people in German. German Volk is the cognate of English folk and related to Fulk, French Foulques, Italian Fulco and Swedish Folke, along with other variants such as Fulke, Foulkes, Fulko, Folco and Folquet. Notable people with the surname include:
Julian is a surname. See also Julien (surname) for a variation.
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