After a while there come initials and names, and he is interested to hear some rather unusual family nicknames.

Sometimes, Roman numerals are still used for enumeration of lists ( as an alternative to alphabetical enumeration ), for sequential volumes, to differentiate monarchs or family members with the same first names, and ( in lower case ) to number pages in prefatory material in books.

However, Eastern Aramaic dialects, as well as Akkadian and Mesopotamian Aramaic personal and family names, still survive to this day among Assyrians in the regions of northern Iraq, southeast Turkey, northwest Iran and northeast Syria that constituted old Assyria.

Cruciferae, an older name, meaning " cross-bearing ", describes the four petals of mustard flowers, which are reminiscent of a cross ; it is one of eight plant family names without the suffix-aceae that are authorized alternative names ( according to ICBN Art.

** List of most common family names

Bede's first abbot was Benedict Biscop, and the names " Biscop " and " Beda " both appear in a king list of the kings of Lindsey from around 800, further suggesting that Bede came from a noble family.

Among her closest forefathers there were family names like Polereczky ( Magyarized Polish or Slovak ) and Fegyveres ( Magyar ).

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His mother originally named him David Dwight but reversed the two names after his birth to avoid the confusion of having two Davids in the family.

* Dong ( Chinese surname ), a transliteration of Chinese family names 董, 東 ( in Mandarin pinyin )

Young Louis's nickname among family and friends was " Dickie ", notable in that " Richard " was not among his given names.

He reformed the system of family and clan names, because many named themselves false names using higher ranked clan or family names.

The use of family names is common in many cultures around the world.

Since family names are normally written last in European societies ( except in Hungary ), the term last name is commonly used for family name, while in East Asia ( with vertical writing ) the family name may be referred to as upper name ( as in Japanese ).

In an English-speaking context, family names are most often used to refer to a stranger or in a formal setting, and are often used with a title or honorific such as Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss, Dr, and so on.

Onomastics is the study of proper names including family names.

The name of the Hakka people who are the predominant original native speakers of the language literally means " guest families " or " guest people ": Hak 客 ( Mandarin: kè ) means " guest ", and ka 家 ( Mandarin: jiā ) means " family ".

While a few sources say Mahesh came from a lower-caste family, the predominant view is that he was a member of the Kayastha caste, a high-status caste whose traditional profession is writing.

In fact, some linguists refer to it as ' Central Aymara ', as opposed to the ' Southern Aymara ', which is the predominant part of the family spoken in the Titicaca region.

Here we see most immediately the conflict between the two predominant traits of the Compson family, which Jason's mother Caroline attributes to the difference between her blood and her husband's: on the one hand, Miss Quentin's recklessness and passion, inherited from her grandfather and, ultimately, the Compson side ; on the other, Jason's ruthless cynicism, drawn from his mother's side.

Each family was facilitated with a plot of land and are the predominant suppliers of vegetables to the Belmopan area.

For many historians such as Akira Fujiwara, Akira Yamada, Peter Wetzler, Herbert Bix and John Dower, the work done by Douglas MacArthur and SCAP during the first months of the occupation of Japan to exonerate Hirohito and all the imperial family from criminal prosecutions in the Tokyo tribunal was the predominant factor in the campaign to diminish in retrospect the role played by the emperor during the war.

The Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10, 000 of the 11, 000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera.

During the 17th and 18th centuries, in which the clearly predominant activities in Boal were agriculture and cattle farming, beautiful family seats and palaces were built in the municipality, but at present most of them are almost completely disappeared, although with some exceptions such as the Palace of Miranda, in the village of Prelo.

In the 14th century, John Blundell, whose family were the predominant landowners in the area, added his surname to Ince.

Some forests are dominated by Lauraceae, while in others evergreen laurophyll trees of the beech family ( Fagaceae ) are predominant, including ring-cupped oaks ( Quercus subgenus Cyclobalanopsis ), chinquapin ( Castanopsis ) and tanoak ( Lithocarpus ).

Agricultural sociologists, anthropologists and ethnologists working in developing countries, where the peasant economy remains a predominant factor, apply his theory to help understand the nature of the family labour farm.

The nuclear family is predominant in the Marma community.

A few family members continue to be renamed ( and newborns named ) to remind all that each person's character is gifted with a predominant attribute such as Charity, Honesty or Contentment, that may someday be attained.

The family names, the features and colouring, the predominant Catholic religion in some areas ( particularly on the southeast portion of the Avalon Peninsula ), the prevalence of Irish music � even the accents of the people in these areas � are so reminiscent of rural Ireland that Irish author Tim Pat Coogan has described Newfoundland as " the most Irish place in the world outside of Ireland ".

He moved there from the other colonies by no later 1631 to fish and farm the land with his family in an agreement with Willoughby, and the Guy family remained the predominant planter family in Carbonear throughout the 17th century.

Until the mid-twentieth century the Craven family owned most of the village, but successive sell-offs by the estate have made owner-occupancy predominant.

It is frequently — and usually spuriously — used as a synonym for originalism generally ; while original intent is indeed one theory in the originalist family, it has some extremely salient differences which has led originalists from more predominant schools of thought such as original meaning to castigate original intent as much as legal realists do.

Individuals with " low differentiation " are more likely to become fused with predominant family emotions.

The Roman Catholic Church, however, sanctions a much more liberal policy on family planning.

Apart, however, from the question of wasteful duplication, there is another aspect of the `` family business '' spirit in American Catholic higher education which deserves closer scrutiny.

The family was Byzantine Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church.

Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Carrel was raised in a devout Catholic family and was educated by Jesuits, though he no longer practiced his religion when he entered the university.

Bardot grew up in a middle-class observant Roman Catholic family.

His father, Béla Sr., considered himself thoroughly Hungarian, because on his father's side the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from Borsod county ( Móser 2006a, 44 ; Bartók 1981, 13 ), though his mother was from a Roman Catholic Serbian family ( Bayley 2001, 16 ).

The political revolt brought little social change, however, and 19th century Chilean society preserved the essence of the stratified colonial social structure, which was greatly influenced by family politics and the Roman Catholic Church.

From the 1860s until the present, the party has supported strong central government, and supported the Catholic Church, especially its role as protector of the sanctity of the family, and opposed separation of church and state.

The family then fled to Miami, Florida, where Desi attended St. Patrick Catholic High School.

While he came from a Roman Catholic family and was baptized, he later on became an agnostic.

While at the time he seemed destined for academic success in the line of his noble family, Xavier turned to a life of Catholic missionary service.

Capra's family was Roman Catholic.

His mother, Ida Barbiani ( 1896 – 1984 ), came from a bourgeois Catholic family of Roman merchants.

He was staunchly Presbyterian, even though his family was Roman Catholic.

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was born in Munich on 7 October 1900 to a conservative Roman Catholic middle-class family.

Some scholars have observed that revenge tragedies come from traditionally Catholic countries, such as Spain and Italy ; and they present a contradiction, since according to Catholic doctrine the strongest duty is to God and family.

The family split into two branches, the Catholic Swabian branch and the Protestant Franconian branch, known also as the Kirschner line.

In 1692, as a result of the inheritance of the Palatinate by a Catholic branch of the Wittelsbach family, which threatened to upset the religious balance of the College of Electors, the number of electors was increased to nine, with a seat being granted to the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who became known as the Elector of Hanover ( the Reichstag officially confirmed the creation in 1708 ).

Simon's father was Jewish and his mother came from a family of Jewish, Lutheran, and Catholic backgrounds.

Like the majority of Belgians at that time, his family belonged to the Roman Catholic Church, though were not particularly devout.