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• Aaronovitch, Aronowitz, etc. son of Aaron. Jewish surname.
• Anders(s)on: son of Anders/Andrew. Scandinavian and English surname.
• Boyer: when German, can be a modification of "Bauer," farmer.
• Balshemnik, Balshemennik, Bolshemennikov: from Baal Shem: Wizard. A Jewish surname from Belarus.
• Holmberg: "Holm" comes from "holme", which means islet. "Berg" means hill or mountain. Scandinavian surname.
• Huber: the German name is derived from Huober, a farmer holding a fief. It has also been explained as an abbreviation of Hubert or as a derivation of Heber, the Hebrew Patriarch. It may occur in the following variations: Hiver, Hivar, Hubbar, Hupper, Huper, Hobar, Hibber, Kuber, Cooper, Kubri, Kivri, Heber, Eber, Hever, Ever.
• Johans(s)on, Johns(s)on, Jons(s)on: son of Johan/John. Scandinavian and English surnames.
• Karls(s)on, Carls(s)on, Karlsen, Carlsen: son of Karl. Scaninavian surname.
• Kolikov: son of Kolek. Russian surname.
• Lars(s)on, Larsen: Son of Lars (Lawrence). Scandinavian surname.
• Lindberg: "Lind" means lime/linden and "berg" means hill or mountain. Scandinavian surname.
• MacLachlan: Gaelic, "son of Norway." Variously spelled.
• McDonald, MacDonald: son of Donald.
• O'Donald: grandson of Donald (O' is an anglicisation of "ua", meaning grandson).
• Moreau: From dark or black horse. [1] has the etymology as "French, derived from the nickname for the dark-skinned man, perhaps a Moor."
• Pers(s)on, Petters(s)on: son of Per/Petter (Peter). Scaninavian surname.
• Plotkin: from Plotki. Jewish surname from Belarus.
• Rabinowitz, Rabinovitch, Rabinowich: Son of a rabbi. Jewish surname. (This surname has the owitz ending, meaning "son of"). PolandThe Republic of Poland a country in Central Europe, lies between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) t, Russian Empire, other Eastern EuropeEastern Europe is, by convention, a region defined geographically as that part of Europe covering the eastern part of the continent. Generally this means that it lies between the Ural and Caucasus mountains and the western border of Russia, or alternativean countries.
• Rambo. "Raven's nest". Swedish-American surname from New SwedenNew Sweden or Nya Sverige was a Swedish colony in North America corresponding roughly to today's state of Delaware but also containing settlements elsewhere, such as New Stockholm (now Bridgeport) and Swedesboro in New Jersey, as well as others in Pennsyl taken by a settler from Ramberget (Raven's Hill) near GothenburgGothenburg ( Swedish: Goteborg [jøːtə'bɔrj]) is a city and a municipality on the western coast of Sweden, in the County of Vastra Gotaland. With 478,055 inhabitants in the city and 816,931 in the metropolitan area it is the sec.
• Spector: From the Russian Spectorski, meaning inspector. Jews who registered as inspectors with the Russian or Ukraine governments received a favored status with respect to travel, although those who collected taxes were generally resented in the shtetls (Jewish ghettos).