Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

His real name was Muhammad bin Da ' ud Chaghri, and for his military prowess, personal valour, and fighting skills he obtained the surname Alp Arslan, which means " Heroic Lion " in Turkish.

A prominent family with this surname is the Cuban noble family that was involved in Cuban real estate prior to the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

The family surname mac Aedh Ó Proinntigh was Anglicised as Prunty or Brunty.

Although he assumed use of his stepfather's surname, it was not until Billy ( as he was known then ) turned fifteen that he formally adopted the surname Clinton as a gesture toward his stepfather.

The spelling of his name was changed after the beginning of the series ; his nameplate and office door spells his surname " McVicar " in early episodes.

Her father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat turned shipping executive ; he was of Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his family's original surname was Valvrojenski.

Under the Romans, it was a colony with the surname of Faventia, or, in full, Colonia Faventia Julia Augusta Pia Barcino or Colonia Julia Augusta Faventia Paterna Barcino.

The most common surname attached to the banshee was Mac.

One early source claims that his surname was Drummond, but the lack of any supporting documentation makes this unlikely.

Born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Otha Bates, he was adopted and raised by his mother's cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed, becoming Ellas McDaniel.

His father was the first in his ancestry to adopt a permanent surname.

At birth, his surname was " Brown.

Constantin Brâncuși (; surname sometimes spelled Brâncuș ; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957 ) was a Romanian-born sculptor who made his career in France.

Sarandon was born and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, the son of restaurateurs Cliffie ( née Cardullias ) and Chris Sarandon, Sr. His mother is of Greek descent and his father, whose surname was originally " Sarondonethes ", was a Greek immigrant.

Her first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew Barrymore ; her middle name, Blyth, was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.

Confusion arising from a work of Thomas Moore on the life of Byron which refers to his uncle by full name but Finlay only by surname, lead to some of his exploits being ascribed to a putative brother Kirkman Finlay.

It may have been retroactively ascribed to a number of earlier members of the family ; it was most famous as the surname of Marcus Licinius Crassus, the triumvir, but it is not even certain that it was used by members of his immediate family before him.

This is evidence to suggest the name itself is a phonetic corruption of Curthose, the nickname ascribed to Robert II or also Curtmantle, the surname used by Henry II, the first of England's Plantagenet kings.

Although many believed the name's origin was Aboriginal, with the Wyong Shire originally claiming it meant " hills surrounded by water ", the Geographic Names Board later confirmed there was no Aboriginal significance to the name, with the two most likely sources being a corruption of the Japanese surname Watanabe, ascribed to a friend of well-travelled pioneer Albert Warner, or a comment made by early landowner Allan Chapman about the " nobby " shape of the surrounding terrain, have been suggested.

Blyton and Darrell Waters married at the City of Westminster Register Office on 20 October 1943, and she subsequently changed the surname of her two daughters to Darrell Waters.

* Register ( surname )

A married woman can change her surname to that of her husband or join her maiden name with her husband's surname, and a divorced woman may return to her previous surname, without applying or paying a fee ; but she must notify the department so that the details in the Population Register can be changed.

The birth certificates of Anthony and Timothy identify their mother as Clarice Holmes and it is under this surname that they are recorded in the Official Register.

* For those fortunate to have a surname beginning with a letter between Aa and Alexander, there is Joseph Foster's index to marriages, which includes marriages from this periodical as well as The Times ( 1865-1880 only ) and the Historical Register.

The Edo government eventually formally recognized such tekiya organizations and granted the oyabun ( leaders ) of tekiya a surname as well as permission to carry a sword — the wakizashi, or short samurai sword ( the right to carry the katana, or full-sized samurai swords, remained the exclusive right of the nobility and samurai castes ).

During the first year of her life, she bore the surname de la Riviere, until her father, shortly before his own death, recognized her as his daughter and gave her the surname von Sachsen or de Saxe.

Lord Lyon King Arms officially recognized her use of the surname Fraser in 1973.

In 1979, he discontinued the use of the surname Blunt for himself and his son and was recognized by the Lord Lyon as Cabarfeidh ( Chief ) of Clan Mackenzie.

Although the caste system is all but dead among Fiji Indians, Brahmins ( priests ) can be recognized by the surname, Sharma, while the Kshatriyas ( warriors ) can be recognised by the surname, Singh.

In 1959, the Master of Mar ( succeeded as Earl of Mar in 1965 ) was officially recognized by the Lord Lyon in the surname of Mar.

Lady Janet, the younger co-heiress presumptive, married Lt-Cdr Laurence of Mar, RN ( formerly Laurence Duncan McDiarmid Anderson ) on March 22, 1969, and was known as Lady Janet Anderson for only a few months ; from October 1969 she and her husband were officially recognized by warrant of the Lord Lyon in the style of Mar, the surname Anderson being formally abandoned.

He raised suspicion when a detective for the Mine Owners ' Association recognized him as Orchard ; he responded that his name was Hogan ; and, it was discovered that he was registered at his hotel under the surname Goglan.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan also intended to construct his capitol at Agra as an urban center that would rival both Istanbul and Isfahan in all its wealth and cultural lifestyle. He even bestowed the title or surname " Chaudhury " to the family of Dutta Chaudhury, the very ancient Zamindar of Andul, which is situated in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Having established a system of vassal states in the East, Antiochus now adopts the ancient Achaemenid title of " great king ", and the Greeks, comparing him to Alexander the Great, surname him " the Great ", that is to say Antiochus III Megas.

* their family surname was due to a much more ancient connection to his and Mary's male-line ancestor, Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland.

The prelate adds afterwards, that there was in his time in Teopixca a great settlement of that diocese, a family of the surname of Votan, who were the reputed descendants of that ancient populator.

In Lapela, Parish of Cabril and municipality of Montalegre ( Portugal ), the land where allegedly the nickname Cabrilha originated ( allegedly pronounced at the time Cabrilhe in Galician and Cabrillo in Spanish according to João Soares Tavares, biographer of João Rodrigues Cabrilho ), and still existing in Portugal as a surname ( because of this Castro Daire, in Beira Alta, was also claimed as his birthplace ), there is the ancient house called today by local people and alleged local descendants of branches of his ancient family, the same surname ( Rodrigues Cabrilho ), as Casa do " Galego " ( House of the " Galician ") and Casa do " Americano " ( House of the " American ") where allegedly Cabrilho was born, as stated on a plaque where there is also a statue of him.

His skepticism of the Chinese heritage was such that he at one time wanted to change his surname to Yi Gu ( 疑古 " suspecting things ancient ").

The actor chose the surname of an ancient Greek physician and medical researcher named Galen.

The coat of arms of the former County Borough of Oldham council, granted 7 November 1894, based upon those of an ancient local family Oldham ( surname ) | surnamed Oldham.

It is usually believed to be a shortened form of the name Tiborc which name originates from the ancient Latin surname Tiburtius.

In literature, one of its earliest uses to refer to Arthur is in Alfred Tennyson's poem Lancelot and Elaine, where, however, it appears as a title of Arthur rather than as a surname, following contemporary speculation that " pendragon " had been a term for an ancient British war-chief.

The nomen Furius is a patronymic surname derived from Fusus, apparently an ancient praenomen that had fallen out of use before historical times.

Each surname has an epithet used to glorify its ancient holders, and singers also praise recent and still-living family members.

With respect to the first, which was the one adopted, says Spartianus, by the most learned men, it is impossible to disprove it absolutely, as we know next to nothing of the ancient Moorish language ; but it has no inherent probability in it ; and the statement of Servius is undoubtedly false, that the grandfather of the dictator obtained the surname on account of killing an elephant with his own hand in Africa, as there were several of the Julii with this name before his time.

The initial surname Chen was from Gui (, Gūi ), which was an ancient East Asia surname of descendants of Emperor Shun, who was one of the Three August Ones and Five Emperors.

People with this surname are generally direct descendents of the original Yemeni settlers, and gather every 5 years in South Shields to re-enact the ancient and forgotten custom of camel worrying-usually substituting the camels for sheep, donated by the local Yemeni community.

Merriman is an ancient surname originating in parts of the British Isles.

Lester is an ancient Anglo-Saxon surname, first found in Cheshire, England.

His grandson, the eleventh Earl, assumed the ancient surname of de Burgh in lieu of Bourke ( or Burke ).

* The Milo-a neighborhood in ancient Jerusalem ( literally means: the landfill ); possible source for the Jewish surname

According to tradition, the surname originated from a noble family of the ancient state of Chen, in what is now eastern Henan province.

Zhèng ( Hanyu Pinyin ) or Cheng ( Wade-Giles ) is a Chinese surname and the name of an ancient state in today's Henan province.