M(a)cLaughlin is the most common Anglicized form of Mac Lochlainn, a masculine surname of Irish origin. The feminine form of the surname is Nic Lochlainn. The literal meaning of the name is "son of Lochlann". Note that Mc is simply a contraction of Mac, which is also truncated to M' . Thus, MacLaughlin, McLaughlin and M'Laughlin are the same Anglicism, the latter two merely contractions of the first.
Palmieri is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Weinstein is a German or Yiddish surname meaning wine stone, referring to the crystals of cream of tartar resulting from the process of fermenting grape juice.
Whalen is a surname. In Ireland, Whalen, Whelan, Phelan and O'Phelan, are anglicized variants of the same Gaelic surname, Faoláin, which itself is a variant of Ó Faoileáin and Ó Haoláin.
Paulsen is a Danish, Norwegian and German patronymic surname, from the given name Paul prefix, of Latin origin, itself derived from Paulus, meaning "small". People with the name Paulsen include:
Flynn is an Irish surname or first name, an anglicised form of the Irish Ó Floinn, meaning "descendant of Flann". The name is more commonly used as a surname rather than a first name.
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.
Swartz is a German surname related to the German word Schwarz. It may refer to:
Mehl is a German and Norwegian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Millar is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Marchand is a frequent surname in France, in Quebec, and in Louisiana.. It is sometimes anglicized to "Merchant", "Marchant", or "Merchand", all with similar pronunciations to Marchand.
Ritter is a surname, and may refer to:
Kirby is a surname. Kirby is found in 116 governed bodies in the world, though is most concentrated in the USA (70,753), England (22,162), Australia (7,160), Canada (5,268), and Ireland (1,931), but most prevalent in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1:1,127). This shows the people with this surname have travelled and become residents in many nations around the world. It originated in Northern England or in Southwestern Ireland from the Old Norse word "kirkja" + "býr" meaning "church" + "settlement".
Goebel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Desmarais is a French surname, associated especially but not exclusively with a powerful business and political family in Canada and United States. Notable people with the surname include:
Pastor or Pastore is an occupational surname for the profession of a religious pastor and the profession of a shepherd pastor. Notable people with the surname include:
Jeffries is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Stromberg, Strömberg, Strømberg, Strombergs, Štrombergs, etc. is a surname from Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway and Sweden and now common in the English language where it is occasionally written as Stroemberg.
Carle or Carlé is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Coyne is a surname of Irish origin anglicised from the Gaelic Ó Cadhain meaning "descendant of Cadhan".
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