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Sharon is a given name as well as an Israeli surname.
Bernstein is a common surname in the German language, meaning "amber". The name is used by both Germans and Jews, although it is most common among people of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. The German pronunciation is, but in English, it is pronounced either as or.
Carr is a common surname in northern England, deriving from the Old Norse kjarr, meaning a brushwood, thicket or copse. It may also come from the ancient Norse Kjarr translation meaning Kaiser from Caesar Kerr is a Scottish variant, often from the Norse and from the Gaelic ciar, meaning "dusky". Carr is also a common surname in Ireland, where it often derives from the nickname, gearr, meaning "short of height". In some cases it is thought to come from the Welsh word cawr, meaning giant. Alternatively, in Ireland and Scotland, it may derive from the Irish and Scottish Gaelic cearr meaning pointed spear.
Stevenson is an English language patronymic surname meaning "son of Steven". Its first historical record is from pre-10th-century England. Another origin of the name is as a toponymic surname related to the place Stevenstone in Devon, England. There are variant spellings of the name, including Stephenson.
Baum is a German surname meaning "tree". Notable people with this surname include:
Braun is a surname, originating from the German word for the color brown.
Agnes is a female given name derived from the Greek Ἁγνή Hagnḗ, meaning 'pure' or 'holy'. The name passed to Italian as Agnese, to French as Agnès, to Portuguese as Inês, and to Spanish as Inés. Agnė to Lithuanian language. It is also written as Agness. The name is descended from the Proto-Indo-European *h₁yaǵ-, meaning 'to sacrifice; to worship,' from which is also the Vedic term yajña. It is mostly used in Greece and countries that speak Germanic languages.
Margulis is a surname that, like its variants, is derived from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew word מרגלית, meaning 'pearl.' Notable people and characters with the name include:
Margules is a surname that, like its variants shown below, is derived from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew word מרגליות, meaning 'pearls'. Notable people with the surname include:
Margulies is a surname that, like its variants shown below, is derived from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew word מרגליות, meaning 'pearls'. Notable people with the surname include:
Margolis is a surname that, like its variants shown below, is derived from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew word מרגלית, meaning 'pearl'. Notable people with the surname include:
Moses is a surname derived from the Biblical Moses. It can be of either Jewish, Welsh, or English origin. The Hebrew form of the name, Moshe, is probably of Egyptian origin, from a short form of any of various ancient Egyptian personal names, such as Ramesses and Tutmose, meaning "conceived by ". The Arabic form of the name is Musa. However, very early in its history it acquired a folk etymology, being taken as a derivative of the Hebrew root verb mšh, "to draw (something from the water", a reference to the story of the infant Moses being discovered among the bulrushes by Pharaoh's daughter. As a Welsh family name, it was adopted among Dissenter families in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a North American family name, it has been an anglicization of foreign forms of the name, such as Moise, Moshe, or Mozes.
Klein is the Dutch, German and Afrikaans word for "small", which came to be used as a surname, and thence passed into the names of places, concepts and discoveries associated with bearers of this surname.
Marjorie is a female given name derived from Margaret, which means pearl. It can also be spelled as Margery, Marjory or Margaery. Marjorie is a medieval variant of Margery, influenced by the name of the herb marjoram. It came into English from the Old French, from the Latin Margarita (pearl). After the Middle Ages this name was rare, but it was revived at the end of the 19th century.
Weiss or Weiß, also written Weis or Weisz, pronounced like "vice", is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname, meaning 'white' in both German and Yiddish. It comes from Middle High German wîz and Old High German (h)wīz.
Barbara is a given name used in numerous languages. It is the feminine form of the Greek word barbaros meaning "stranger" or "foreign".
Beck is a surname of either Germanic or Hebrew origin, and is fairly common in English and Slavic speaking countries, Germany and Denmark. The Germanic name can mean "brook, stream" or be a variant of Becker, which is an occupational surname meaning "baker". In Hebrew, it exists as an abbreviated form of B'nei Kiddoshim. In some Slavic countries such as the former Yugoslavia and Russia it is spelled as Bek.
Goldstein (; German:[ˈɡoːltʃtaɪn] is a surname of Yiddish origin, that is widespread among Ashkenazi Jews. It translates to "gold stone" in English. Notable people with the surname include:
Hassan or Hasan is an Arabic, Irish, Scottish, or Jewish surname.
Margolies is a surname that, like its variants shown below, is derived from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew word מרגליות (Israeli Hebrew, meaning 'pearls'. Notable people with the surname include:
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