Of which origin is the surname ALLEN ?
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IT IS ENGLISH(ENGLAND)
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try this etymology site:
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Umberto Eco because he makes his vast well of knowledge look so effortless.\n\nAnd Justin? It's Allan, not Allen.
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The boy's name Eric is pronounced AIR-ik. It is of Scandinavian and Old Norse origin, and its meaning is "complete ruler." The original form is Erik, which has been borne by nine Danish kings. Scandinavian legend relates that the Viking sea rover Ericson (son of Eric the Red) landed on the shores of America 500 years before Christopher Columbus.
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Greta is a variant of Margaret which has a Greek origin and means, "pearl." Elizabeth, has a Hebrew origin and means, "God's oath."  I would put Greta first.
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Etymology of "Amazon"\nMiddle English, from Latin Amzn, from Greek Amazn, probably of Iranian origin \n\nWORD HISTORY: \nIn classical legend the Amazons were a tribe of warrior women. Their name is supposedly derived from Greek a-mazos, "without a breast," because according to the legend they cut off their right breasts so as to be better able to shoot with a bow and arrow. This folk etymology, like most folk etymologies, is incorrect, but the Amazons of legend are not so completely different from the historical Amazons, who were also warriors. The historical Amazons were Scythians, an Iranian people renowned for their cavalry. The first Greeks to come into contact with the Iranians were the Ionians, who lived on the coast of Asia Minor and were constantly threatened by the Persians, the most important of the Iranian peoples. Amazn is the Ionian Greek form of the Iranian word ha-mazan, "fighting together." The regular Greek form would be hamazn, but because the Ionians dropped their aitches like Cockneys, hamazn became amazn, the form taken into the other Greek dialects.
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My cousin did our genealogy and discovered our family descended from English royalty. I don't know his name, I was young and was kind of ho-hum about it at the time but other family members were real excited about it. Sorry, no link.
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There is a town in England called 'Warwick' and it is very common that family names in England can originate from the town of the families origin, many many, years ago. There are names around today, in many countries around the world, that still originate from the families ancestoral homes in Northern Europe/Britain. Go to this website and try to find your surname origins.........it will tell you which regions in England have that surname, maybe its english, maybe its not, but i think so as Warick is a very old town and many surnames come from them.....even though the spelling has an extra 'r' in the middle.
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This name probably comes from the name Griselda, which is derived from the Germanic elements gris "grey" and hild "battle".\n\nSee the link below for more info.\n\nWK
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I just looked in the new age baby name book and the very best baby name book and neither were in there(both books have many nationalities).  The name was apparently created for some reason.  It probably isn't race specific.  The closest is Romi/Romy which is French and English
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Name  ,   Meaning       ,     Origin \nShelby ,   Willow Farm,  Old English
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Do you mean the origin of the name "Brunner"?\n\nBrunner derives from "Brunnen" which means "water well" in German.
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Ukranian: Martinovich. \nI found it here:\nhttp://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/S-Martyn.html
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AUSTRALIA\nThe name Australia is derived from the Latin australis, meaning southern. Legends of an "unknown southern land" (terra australis incognita) date back to the Roman times, and were commonplace in mediæval geography, but were not based on any actual knowledge of the continent. The Dutch adjectival form Australische ("Australian", in the sense of "southern") was used by Dutch officials in Batavia to refer to the newly discovered land to the south as early as 1638."\n\nASIA\n"The word Asia entered English via Latin from Ancient Greek, first attested in Herodotus, where it refers to Asia Minor, or for the purposes of the Persian Wars, to the Persian Empire as opposed to Greece and Egypt. Homer knows a Trojan ally named Asios, son of Hyrtacus, a ruler over several towns, and also describes a marsh as 461).\nThe Greek term was likely from Assuwa, a 14th century BC confederation of states in ancient Anatolia. Hittite assu- "good" is a likely element in that name. Elamites numeous in the east called themselves As, and at least one Aryan people on the central Eurasian steppes called themselves Asi. Alternatively, the ultimate etymology of the term may be from the Akkadian word asu, which means "to go out" or "to rise", referring to the direction of the sun at sunrise in the Middle East. Compare to this the suggestion for the etymology of Europe from Semitic erebu "to set". The motives for the names of Asia and Europe would thus mirror each other, much like the terms orient and occident (the names Anatolia and Levant likewise signify "sunrise"). This suggestion is widely quoted, but it suffers from the fact that Anatolia from an Akkadian or generally Semitic perspective does not lie in the east."\n\nAFRICA\n"The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia.\nThe origin of Afer may either come from: the Phoenician `afar, dust; \nthe Afri, a tribe—possibly Berber—who dwelt in North Africa in the Carthage area; \nthe Greek word aphrike, meaning without cold (see also List of traditional Greek place names); \nor the Latin word aprica, meaning sunny. \nThe historian Leo Africanus (1495-1554) attributed the origin to the Greek word phrike (meaning "cold and horror"), combined with the negating prefix a-, so meaning a land free of cold and horror. But the change of sound from ph to f in Greek is datable to about the first century, so this cannot really be the origin of the name.\n\nEgypt was considered part of Asia by the ancients, and first assigned to Africa by the geographer Ptolemy (85 - 165 AD), who accepted Alexandria as Prime Meridian and made the isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea the boundary between Asia and Africa. As Europeans came to understand the real extent of the continent, the idea of Africa expanded with their knowledge\n\nEUROPE\n"In Greek mythology, Europa was a Phoenician princess who was abducted by Zeus in bull form and taken to the island of Crete, where she gave birth to Minos. For Homer, Europa was a mythological queen of Crete, not a geographical designation. Later Europa stood for mainland Greece and by 500 BC its meaning was extended to lands to the north."\n\nTHE AMERICAS:\n"The earliest known use of the name America for the continents of the Americas dates from 1507. It appears on a globe and a large map created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, explains that the name was derived from the Latinized version of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, Americus Vespucius, in its feminine form, America, as the other continents all have Latin feminine na
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Can you clarify your question?\n\nThe etymology of English and England is from the word Angles, Angles being the tribe of west germanic peoples who invaded/settled/conquered the islands of the British Isles.  England is derived from the germanic way of expressing the place where Angles occupy: Land of the Angles or Angle Land.\n\nEnglish is the language that is spoken in England just like Deutsch is the language spoken in Deutschland (German/Germany).
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Dando:English (Norman) habitation name, with fused preposition "de", from Aunou in Orne, Normandy, which gets it's name from Old French aunaie meaning alder grove.\n\nso it wouldv'e been D'aunou, then it got anglicised.
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origin: English\n\nThe name Datts is tied to the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of England.  It comes from the baptismal name Dade.  This old English personal name was originally derived from the Old English word daed, when translated means a deed or an exploit.  Baptismal names began to appear as surnames relatively late in the growth of the naming tradition.  This is a little surprising, given the popularity of biblical figures in the Christian countries of Europe. Nevertheless, surnames derived from baptismal names grew in popularity during the Middles Ages, and have become one of the foremost sources for surnames.\n\nSpelling Variations include: Dade, Dadey, Dady, and others\n\n\nSome of the first settlers of this name or some of it variates were: John Dade who settled in Virginia is 1676; William Dade settled in Charlestown Mass. in 1630; Dorothy Dadey settled in Salem Mass. in 1630; wife of William