Ponte is a topographic surname which is of Portuguese, Galician, Italian and Jewish origin. [1] It may refer to "a dweller by a bridge". [2] Its alternative meaning is derived from the Anglo-Norman French word pont which, in turn, originates from the Latin word pons with the meaning of "a bridge". [2]
Notable people with the surname include:
Nader is a masculine given name and surname of Arabic origin and may refer to:
Morandi is an Italian surname, which is derived from the given name Morando. The surname may refer to:
Darwish and Darvish are alternate transliterations of the Persian word "dervish", used in Arabic: درويش, referring to a Sufi aspirant. There is no v sound in most Modern Arabic dialects and so the originally Persian word is usually pronounced with a w sound in Arabic. The word appears as a surname in the Levant or for people descended from Levantine communities, particularly in Lebanon, Syria, Israel, the Palestinian territories and Afghanistan. In Iraq, the surname, which in Arabic means "wandering, roaming", has been borne by people of Jewish descent as well.
Abdul is the most frequent transliteration of the combination of the Arabic word Abd and the definite prefix al / el.
Butt is a German and an English surname whose origins lie in the South West peninsula region of England.
Nadal is a surname of Catalan, Occitan, and Venetian origin. It stems from the Latin word for birthday, natalis. Notable people with the surname include:
Ferraro is an occupational surname of Italian origin meaning blacksmith in Italian. Notable people with this surname include:
Pullen is an uncommon English surname with a purported Norman origin.
Acker comes from German or Old English, meaning "ploughed field"; it is related to or an alternate spelling of the word acre. Therefore, Ackermann means "ploughman". Ackerman is also a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname of Yiddish origin with the same meaning. The Ashkenazi surname Ackerman sometimes refers to the town of Akkerman in Bessarabia, south-west of Odessa.
Gentner is a surname of German origin. The first records of the Gentner name can be traced back to Württemberg, southwest Germany, in the late 1300s.
Alcaide is a Spanish name, meaning 'castle commander'. It is borrowed from the Arabic term qāʾid, which literally means 'commander'.
Kovář is a Czech surname.
Abruzzese is an Italian surname, meaning literally "Abruzzian" or "from Abruzzo". Notable people with the surname include:
Arends is a Dutch and Low German patronymic surname, meaning "son of Arend". It may refer to:
Melia is a family name that may originate in the Caucasus state of Georgia, in Italy, or in Ireland. Melia Bergamin. The Georgian name is believed to be derived from the word melia, meaning "fox". Names derived from Melia are Meliava, Meliva, Melua, Meluava or Meladze. The Italian history may date back to early Rome. The Irish origins may be via alterations to the name O'Maille or O'Malley.
Morreale is a surname of Italian origin. It is a habitational name derived from Monreale, a town in the province of Palermo, Sicily. The word Monreale itself is derived from the words monte and reale, meaning "royal mountain". Notable people with the name include:
Miano is a surname. It is a southern Italian surname, which originated both as a shortened form of given names such as Emiliano or Damiano, as well as a toponymic surname from various settlements including Miano in Naples, Miano in Parma, Miano in Teramo, Miane in Veneto, and Mian in Belluno. It is also a Kikuyu surname, from the word mĩano "a small gourd used by a mũrogi to hold divining stones". In Italy, 899 families bore the surname Miano, with slightly less than half located in Sardinia. The 2010 United States census found 1,643 people with the surname Miano, making it the 17,239th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 1,531 (17,101st-most-common) in the 2000 census. In both censuses, roughly nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as non-Hispanic white.
Reus is a Dutch, German and Catalan surname. (De) reus means "(the) giant" in middle and modern Dutch, and the surname has a descriptive origin. In Germany, the name may have its origin in the Middle Low German word ruse for a fish trap, or from a regional term reuse for a small stream or channel. People with this surname include:
Cipollone is a surname of Italian origin, a nickname for someone with a big head from the augmentative of the Italian word cipolla meaning "onion". Notable people with the surname include:
Comas is one of the Catalan surnames. It is the plural form of the Catalan word como which is derived from the Gaulish word cumba meaning valley. McComas is the Irish version of the surname.