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Priestly is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Joseph Priestly, a scientist
- Miranda Priestly, a character in The Devil Wears Prada
- Paul Priestly, a character in EastEnders
Priestly is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Yang is the transcription of a Chinese family name. It is the sixth most common surname in Mainland China. It is the 16th surname on the Hundred Family Surnames text.
Gongsun is one of the few Chinese compound surnames.
The Priestly Blessing or priestly benediction, also known in rabbinic literature as raising of the hands, rising to the platform, dukhenen, or duchening, is a Hebrew prayer recited by Kohanim. The text of the blessing is found in Numbers 6:23–27.
Qiú is the Hanyu Pinyin transliteration of 仇 (Qiú) and 裘 (Qiú).
Cho is a Korean family name, historically Royal family name in Korea. As of 2000, there were 1,347,730 people by this surname in South Korea, about 1% of the total population. The name may represent either of the Hanja 趙 or 曺.
Kim is a surname with multiple origins.
Panesar is an Indian surname from Punjab. People with this surname include:
Volchok is a Russian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Rogan is an Irish surname, deriving from the Gaelic Ó Ruadhagáin 'descendant of Ruadhagán'.
Pavlichenko, Paulichenka or Paŭličenka is a Ukrainian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kong is a Chinese and Korean surname. It can also be written as Kung in Taiwan, Hung in Hong Kong, Khổng in Vietnam, and Gong in Korea. There are around 2.1 million people with this surname in China in 2002, representing 0.23% of the population. In 2018, it was the 97th-most common surname in China. It is the 25th name in the Hundred Family Surnames poem.
Petridis or Petrides is a Greek surname. It is a patronymic surname which literally means "the son of Petros", equivalent to English Peterson. Notable people with the surname include:
Karofsky is a Jewish surname, deriving from the Israelite priestly “Kohen” class. Notable people with the surname include:
Jì is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 季 in Chinese character. It is romanized as Chi in Wade–Giles, and Gwai in Cantonese. Ji is the 142nd most common surname in China, with a population of 960,000. It is listed the 134th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames.
Xiang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surnames: Xiàng and Xiāng. It means “to go forward”
Madhok is an Indian (Khatri) surname. Notable
Mu is the pinyin romanization of several Chinese surnames.
Xiè (解) is a surname. The character 解 is also pronounced "Jiě." A 2013 study found that it was the 182nd-most common surname, shred by 710,000 people or 0.053% of the population, with Shandong being the province with the most.
In 2008, pinyin Yán was estimated to be the 75th most common surname in the People's Republic of China, shared by around 3.1 million citizens, making it the most common of the surnames written “Yan” without tone markers.
Rechtman is a surname commonly used by people of Jewish origin, dating back centuries. Documents show that it existed at least as early as 1750. When shown to exist prior to 1804, this surname predates the requirements that Jews maintain a Patronymic surname under the Napoleonic Code.