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It is Portuguese and it is correctly spelled de Sousa. The "de" means of in Portuguese and it means of Sousa, which was a place in Portugal. The original bearers of this surname were nobility.

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Sharma, Bhatia, Goswami

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Family names ending in "-ington" are English and mildly classy in England.

I found the following accounts posted on the Arrington Family Genealogical Forum at http://genforum.genealogy.com/arrington/ "THE SURNAME 'ARRINGTON' "The surname Arrington has been said in family folklore to be of German origin. How this tale began I am unsure but I am sure that the name Arrington is of English origin. "English surnames began in the middle ages when it was common to identify one with an area from which they came. For example; my name is Richard and I am from Franklin County therefore I might be referred to as Richard of Franklin. As years passed the 'of' was dropped and in the above example I would then become known as Richard Franklin. This is how the Arrington name came into existence in England. "The name is said to have originally been "Ermington" and eventually changed, in England, to Arrington. "The township of Arrington is located ten miles southwest of Cambridgeshire England. Also located in the township is the landowners manor." And then there was this brief account: "The earliest recorded use of the Arrington surname was in a document in London, England in 1273. During research one might find the Arrington surname spelled in a variety of ways. I observed it spelled as Arington, Earington, Arenton, Arrinton, Arrendon and etc.. When I found the name spelled in a way other than our common spelling I researched further to ensure the subject was indeed an Arrington. The early records in the United States were generally written phonetically and so often a variety of spellings were prevalent."

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Wadsworth is English for Wad's enclosure. Wad is a nickname for Waeddi. Also, Wadsworth is a village in West Yorkshire, England, near Huddersfield.

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Tian means Field and cultivated land or Tian can mean Sky and Heaven

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3 crackers here lads to get you started:-

1) David Bourgainvillea

2) Ruud Tulip

3) Pep Gladioli

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Some of them are Aurora, Thomas, Titus, Pinto

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The Spanish surname Mesa is first found in Castellano, or Castille.

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Labas pronunciation: Lay-bus is typically eastern European. Quite possibley it is exclusive to te Hungarian culture.

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The name Long comes from the Olde English "lang" which means "long, tall." Ultimately it comes from Latin "longus" of the same meaning.

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Mankiller, Thorpe, Cleghorn, Redwing, War Eagle, Thunder, (Bob) Barker, Spears, Standing Bear, and Young Deer are some rather famous Native American surnames.

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in india, especally in state of tamilnadu, people use their father name {piority} or their mother name as their surname name. they don't have family name or house name. For example current tamilnadu chief minister name is M.Karunanidhi because his father name is Muthuvelar and mother name is Anjugam, he given his father name as his surname and initial. And his childrens keeps his name as surname, for example M.K.Stalin. But in case of other state they will keep their family name or their house name as their surname.

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The surname Nand-Lal originates from India, they immigrated to Trinidad apparently to help in the cotton fields. Family history has it that one of the Nand-lal brothers became a banker and then wealthy land owner and sent his sons to University in the UK, one was an Engineer, another a Doctor, and it is believed that the other was an Accountant. The brother Raman who was sent to the UK to study medicine first went to Edinburgh University an then to Birmingham to finish his studies... it was too cold for him in Edinburgh.

You will find a few Nand-lal or Nand surnames in the UK as the -lal was dropped by some due to complications with UK people understanding the nature of the spelling.

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Foo, usually spelled Fu, is a very common Chinese surname. It possibly came from Fu Yue, the prime minister of the Yin Dynasty.

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A quick search of some surname/genealogical sites turned several instances of people named Leetham from the Yorkshire, England area.

I have an old family photograph which must date from between 1850 to 1900.

It is a group shot of about a dozen people standing outside a building called the Plough Inn, above the door is the proprietors name, Robert Dunlop.

In careful printing on the card frame is "TAKEN IN LEETHAM".

I can find no reference anywhere to a place called LEETHAM but I suspect at that time it may have referred to a district somewhere around Grantham in Lincolnshire.

The surname and place name are probably associated.

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The Scottish last name Kidd is from a medieval personal name Kid, a variation of Kit, a nickname of Christopher. The English surname Kidd is from Middle English kid(e) 'young goat', an occupational name for a goat herder.

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Heirless means having no heirs. I have never seen it used as a name, though.

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