Family name affixes
Family name affixes are a clue for family name etymology and determining ethnic origin of a person. This is a list of typical affixes.
Prefixes
- ap -- "son of", Welsh
- Da -- "from", Italian
- De -- "the", Dutch; "of", French, Italian
- Degli -- "of the", Italian
- Della -- "of the", Italian
- Di -- "of", Italian
- Du -- "of the", French
- Nic- -- "Daughter of", Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic
- Mac- -- "Son of", Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic
- Mc- -- abbreviation of Mac
- O'- -- "Descendant of", Irish Gaelic
- Ter -- "from", Dutch
- Van -- Dutch
- von -- "of", German
Suffixes
(Sorted from right to left)
- -ić -- Serbs, Bosniak, Croatian (diminutive)
- -ović/ević -- Serbs (diminutive possessive), little son of)
- -begović -- Bosniak (diminutive posesive of a beg, i.e. beg's little son)
- -ič -- Slovene (deminutive)
- -nd -- French
- -rd -- French
- -ang -- Chinese, Korean
- -ski/-čki -- Russian, Polish, Macedonian, Serbs (adjective)
- -ak -- Polish, Ukrainian
- -ák -- Czech
- -ek -- Czech, Polish
- -ik -- Polish
- -yk -- Polish
- -chuk -- Ukrainian
- -shyn -- Ukrainian
- -nen -- Finnish
- -sen -- Danish, Norwegian
- -son -- English, Swedish
- -er -- French, German
- -is -- Greek
- -ems -- Flemish
- -ens -- Flemish
- -opulos -- Greek
- -ers -- Flemish
- -nko -- Ukrainian
- -to -- Japanese
- -escu -- Romanian
- -ov/-ev -- Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian (posessive
- -ný -- Czech
- -es -- Portuguese, Brazilian
- -ez -- Spanish (including Spanish-speaking countries)
See also