It so happens that a German surname can be recognized immediately. They are probably the most characteristic of the descendants of the ancient Germans. Despite the large number of peoples speaking Germanic languages, in Germany and Austria a generic name rarely has a foreign origin, which distinguishes the Germans from the English. Meanwhile, the process of their formation in these countries was not much different from similar ones in other parts of Europe.

In the Middle Ages, Germany was different high degree feudal fragmentation, and this state of affairs persisted until the century before last. The abundance of small kingdoms and principalities sometimes played into the hands of the local nobility: here, as Klyuchevsky put it, other states were accustomed to seeing heads waiting for foreign crowns while these crowns had lost their heads.

The princes from these lands already had surnames: they began to spread from the 12th century, primarily among them.

Another feature of Germany was the abundance of cities. These cities had a special status, having at one time won their independence from the lords and becoming not an object, but a subject of law. Migrants and peasants who fled from their masters flocked there, because living in the city for a year gave freedom. Crafts flourished, and after the name a person always named his profession.

When introducing themselves, rural residents more often used the name of the area where they lived or were born. This left its mark on German anthroponymy, which was consolidated in documents relatively late - this happened in 1875.

Varieties and their origin

The structure of German family names does not differ from that of other peoples. They have the same etymology as other European ones, the only difference is in the degree of prevalence of one or another category. They are as follows:

• registered;
• nicknames;
• professional;
• toponymic.

German and Austrian surnames are characterized by the predominance of the last two groups, which sharply distinguishes them from French and English, and even more so from Scandinavian ones, where patronymics are the first in the list, or even the only ones. In Germany they usually have the possessive suffix -s at the end: Peters, Jens, but they can also coincide with the name, for example, Werner, Joseph, Ebel.

Nicknames are often neutral: they rarely express a negative attitude towards a person, but can emphasize it characteristic features: Weiss (blond), Krause (curly), Fuchs (sly fox), Klyan (short), Hartman ( strong man), Schwartz (brunet), Steil and Steiler (cool), Lange (long).

Cook, miller and carpenter

A large percentage of Germans have professional surnames. The professions from which they originated are not only urban, but also rural. In any case, the most common surname in Germany, Müller, reveals its bearer as a descendant of a miller.

Austria stands out here: the surname Gruber comes first there, meaning a person who digs something. Hardly we're talking about about graves, rather, about mine workings.

If you wish, you can even study the workshop structure medieval city, analyzing German surnames and their meanings:

• Schmidt - blacksmith;
• Schneider - tailor;
• Fisher - fisherman;
• Richter - judge;
• Becker - baker;
• Wagner - carriage maker;
• Köhler - coal miner;
• Zimmerman - carpenter;
• Schultz is the headman.

There are a lot of such surnames in Russia; they came here along with migrants during tsarist times.

Toponymy in German surnames

At first, the nobility called themselves this way, and the naming was based on the name of the property. It was usually preceded by the prefix “von” or “von der”.

Later, ordinary people, primarily residents of rural areas, began to introduce themselves this way.

In Germany there is still a tradition of the given name, and it is enshrined in civil law. If a person introduces himself not only by his last name, but also by the place where he lives, this is indicated in official letters.

Such a named name turned into a surname, although after the latter was fixed, the tradition did not die.

Often such surnames are two-part and may have the endings -feld, -berg, -burg, -hof and others, which indicates ownership or characteristic feature the area where a person's ancestors came from. So, "Schwarzenegger" does not mean "black plowman"(blacks were not brought to Austria), and the Schwarzenegger area is a mountain range that abounds in this country.

Among such generic names we can recall the following: Rosenberg, Stolberg, Habsburg, Eichenwald, Braunfels, Hardenberg, Meyendorff, Richthofen and others.

It must be said that in Germany and Austria the prefix “von” is now rare, and in Austria it is completely prohibited, like any titles. Those who wished at one time made the title part of the surname, and it turned out to be two-part.

Distribution and regional features

If we talk about grammatical category gender, then it is not characteristic of German surnames; women's surnames do not differ from men's. This rule is violated in Bavaria - there the genus can be designated in oral speech ending “-in” for women, but this is not reflected in the documents. Before the surname in oral communication and letters, standard addresses are used - "Herr" for a man, "Frau" for a married woman and "Fräulein" for a girl.

The surname can be a pair, but nothing more.

Top 10 German surnames

If you look at the statistics, the most common in Germany are the following German surnames in the list:

Austrian ones are somewhat different from German ones:

Regional differences

Long feudal fragmentation could not but affect the language, or rather, the languages ​​of Germany. Linguists highlight three dialect zones on the territory of that country - upper (southern), middle and lower. Dialects, despite the dominance of the literary language, are still used in everyday life.

German, Austrian and Swiss family names differ according to several criteria:

All this applies not to specific anthroponyms, but to statistical data on them, which is very important, given internal migration.

Orthographically, surnames reflect differences in the phonetics of different dialects in the past. Thus, the surname Müller is of Bavarian origin, and Möller is of Low German origin. Miller is more typical for Swabia. Meyer and Meier are distributed evenly throughout Germany, and Mayer and Maier in the south.

The same profession could have different names in the regions. So, the analogue of the Russian surname Goncharov in the north will be Pötter, in the center - Töpfer, in the west - Aulner, and in the south - Hafner. The carriage maker in the western regions was called Wagner, and in the eastern regions - Stellmacher.

In Swabia a high proportion of surnames derived from nicknames, in Switzerland they like endings “-ing”, near the coast North Sea a higher proportion of patronymic generic names. A feature of the eastern regions of Austria and Germany are the endings “-itz” and “-itz”, historically dating back to the Slavic population of these areas in the Middle Ages, but now considered “ours”.

Real and fictional celebrities

When it comes to German surnames, the first thing that comes to mind is fascist Germany and her “four Gs.” In fact, there are both G and H, as well as many other interesting things.

For example, Adolf Hitler's ancestors had slightly different names, and the spelling Hitler was the result of a spelling error in the parish register. This was not the first time, since the German Ordnung apparently did not take root in the village of Ranshofen. The documents record people with the surnames Hiedler, Hitlaer and Hütler, and it comes from the profession of a forester.

The ancestor of the Bavarian Heinrich Himmler (spelled Himmler) was probably a heavenly messenger - this is exactly the meaning of this surname. Despite the fact that the surname can be called beautiful, the descendants of the Reichsführer SS are very shy about it, like others who once belonged to leaders of the Third Reich.

The family name of Reichsmarshall Goering was written as Göring and had regional analogues in Germany: Hering, Göhring and Gering, and these words have different meanings. Where ö is written, we are talking about a herring, and when written e, we are talking about a low person.

The surname Goebbels also appears in two versions: Goebbels (that was the name of the propagandist) and Göbbels, but what it means is not entirely clear.

The ancestor of Rudolf Hess came from the corresponding land - Hesse.

With the heroes of the film “Seventeen Moments of Spring” everything is quite simple, especially with Muller. As for Schellenberg, he has a typical toponym, like Kaltenbrunner, whose ancestors apparently lived near some cold spring in Austria.

But Stirlits do not exist at all. Judging by the suffix, this name is from eastern Austria, but there are two types of Stieglitz - Stiglitz and Stiegliz. This surname is rare, translated from Slavic nicknames, its meaning is goldfinch.

Of the holders of German family names in Russia, we can mention the famous Alisa Freundlich (“friendly”), Alfred Koch, whose ancestor was a cook, and Alexey Miller, a descendant of a Swabian miller.

In addition to the Germans, Ashkenazi Jews also have such surnames, who received them once in Germany.

In Israel they often get rid of them by translating them into Hebrew or writing down something that sounds similar. But in Russia and other countries, Ashkenazi names are preserved.

Attention, TODAY only!

German surnames began to appear and spread from the 12th century. But it was only in 1875 that they began to register and enroll. Since then, every German has a first name (Vorname), sometimes a middle name (Zwischenname) and a surname (Familienname).

Origin of German surnames:

• from profession
• on behalf of father or mother
• from the nickname (long, curly...
• from origin (name of village or hamlet)
• from place of residence (name of place of residence)

A huge number of German surnames come from various professions. Therefore, the most popular German surnames are the names of professions that were common in the Middle Ages. For example, the profession of a farmer was so common then that it was not very suitable for the role of a surname (Bauer), which would distinguish people from each other. Therefore, this surname occupies only 13th place in the list. Farmers then received mostly surnames that came from the names of the villages and hamlets in which they lived.

Examples of surnames:

• German surname Müller - derived from the profession of a miller;
• German surname Schmidt - from blacksmithing;
• German surnames Schneider, Schroeder (Schneider) mean tailor;
• the German surname Fischer corresponds to fishing;
• The German surname Weber means weaver;
• The German surname Lehmann translates as landowner.

There are also many German surnames that have Slavic origin. These surnames originated in the lands of Sachsen, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where the Slavs formerly lived. About 13% of Germans now have Slavic surnames. Examples of surnames:

Nowak (Polish)

Noack (Serbian)

Also, due to the abundance of Turkish migrants, Turkish surnames are becoming widespread:

By the way, earlier German surnames also had feminine endings, just like in Russian. For example, Müller in— “Melnikov A". These endings persisted until the 18th century, and then disappeared. Sometimes such endings can still be heard in Bavarian German.

List of the most popular German surnames:

1. Müller (miller)
2. Schmidt (blacksmith)
3. Schneider (tailor)
4. Fischer (fisherman)
5. Weber (weaver)
6. Meyer (builder)
7. Wagner (carriage maker)
8. Becker (baker)
9. Schulz (chief in town, village)
10. Hoffmann (profession)
11. Schäfer (shepherd)
12. Koch (cook)
13. Bauer (farmer)
14. Richter (profession)
15. Klein (small)
16. Wolf (wolf)
17. Schröder (Schneider) (tailor)
18. Neumann (new)
19. Schwarz (black)
20. Zimmermann (carpenter)
21. Braun (brown)
22. Krüger (innkeeper)
23. Hofmann (profession)
24. Hartmann (profession)
25. Lange (long)
26. Schmitt (profession)
27. Werner (name)
28. Schmitz (printer)
29. Krause (curly)
30. Meier (builder)
31. Lehmann (profession)
32. Schmid (profession)
33. Schulze (profession)
34. Maier (builder)
35. Köhler (profession)
36. Herrmann (name)
37. König (king)
38. Walter (name)
39. Mayer (builder)
40. Huber (profession)
41. Kaiser (Kaiser)
42. Fuchs (fox)
43. Peters (name)
44. Lang (long)
45. Scholz (profession)
46. Möller (profession)
47. Weiß (white)
48. Jung (young)
49. Hahn (rooster)
50. Schubert (shoemaker)

A person is always attracted to the beautiful, unusual, mysterious and overseas - this also applies to names and surnames. For example, if you look at popular social networks, you will notice that people often add interesting nicknames to their names or even change them in a foreign style. IN lately German surnames have become mega-popular, which is easily explained by their euphony and the special charm inherent in this nation.

Analysis of the origin of German surnames

Surnames of German origin really attract and intrigue with their sound. If you pronounce any of them - Schmidt, Weber or, for example, the surname Müller, familiar to everyone from the film “12 Moments of Spring”, then it will sound short, clear, laconically, somehow very capacious and complete, as if it contains a huge meaning. In addition, they all go well with almost any name, regardless of its national origin and gender. It is these qualities that determine universal recognition, but few people know what the true meaning of German names and surnames is.

Initially, the Germans only bore names that they received from their mothers for a reason, but with a certain intent. In ancient times, it was believed that a name carries a special power and can magically influence the character and destiny of a person (and even today, few would argue with this statement). Therefore, German parents named their children with a name that had a special double meaning.

Here are some examples:

• Brunghilda – warrior and woman;
• Frideric – ruler and rich;
• Adolf – wolf and noble;
• Rhaimonda – protector and wisdom;
• Günther is an army and invincible.

Later, apparently, when there were too many namesakes to avoid confusion, the Germans began to add unique nicknames to the names, which could mean the following:

• craft - miller, cook (Koch), baker (Becker), merchant (Kaufmann), carriage driver (Wagner);
• belonging to some kind of family - children of Ganz, Gilbert, Junghans;
• personal qualities – small (Klein), black (often about hair, Schwarz), long (meaning tall, Lange), strong (Stark);
• place of birth or residence – Bruch, Berne;
• resemblance to various objects or natural phenomena– forge (Horn), abyss (Schlund), air (Luft), spring (Lentz).

As an example and proof of compatibility, it is worth considering several Russian female names, both common and not so common:

1. Nastenka (a common Russian female name, however, with Greek roots, but that doesn’t matter), that is, Anastasia goes well with the surname Fisher - Anastasia Fisher.
2. Mashenka (also Russian, but this time with Jewish roots), Maria sounds great together with the surname Schneider - Maria Schneider.
3. Thekla (rare, old and very Russian) - even for such a unique and slightly rustic name, you can easily choose a beautiful surname in the German style, for example, Thekla von Feuerbach.

By the way, the prefix von today is just a beautiful transition, but in earlier times it meant belonging to the aristocracy.

For example, you can consider the surnames of famous German women and their meanings:

• Marlene Dietrich/Dietrich – master key;
• Yvonne Catterfeld – competent, lucky;
• Nina Hagen / Hagen – a city in western Germany;
• Helena Fischer/Fischer – fisherman;
• Stephanie Kloss/Kloß – lump;
• Steffi Graf/Graf – count;
• Magdalena Neuner / Neuner – nine;
• Annie Frisinger/Frisinger – hairdresser.

Representatives of the stronger sex will also not have to be upset, since their names will also have perfectly matching and harmonious-sounding male German surnames, such as:

• Krieger/Krieger - fighter, warrior;
• Grubber/Gruber – miner;
• Schmid (Schmidt) / Schmied (Schmidt) – blacksmith;
• Shreiner/Schreiner – carpenter;
• Koller/Koller – coal miner;
• Wacker/ Wacker – brave, decent;
• Schlosser/Schlosser – mechanic;
• Wolf / Wolf - wolf;
• Eisemann/Eisemann – iron man;
• Erhard / Erhard – strong-willed, tough;
• Stark/Stark – powerful, strong;
• Schäfer – shepherd, shepherd;
• Gärtner – gardener;
• Diner / Diener – employee;
• Jaeger / Jäger – hunter;
• Shamber/Schambär – shy bear;
• Falk/Falk – falcon;
• Schneidmiller – daring Miller;

The most popular and widespread options

Places in the top 10 were distributed as follows:

• first – Müller (flour grinder, miller);
• second – Kaufmann/Kaufmann (trader, merchant);
• third – Schneider (cutter, tailor);
• fourth – Fischer/Fischer (fisherman);
• fifth – Webber/Weber (weaver);
• sixth – Bauer/ Bauer (farmer, tiller);
• seventh – Richter (expert, judge);
• eighth – Newman / Neumann (newcomer);
• ninth – Zimmermann (carpenter);
• tenth – Kruger / Krüger (innkeeper, potter).

This list can be continued almost endlessly, since many German surnames are popular. Not included in the top ten, but very close are Schmidt and Mayer, Schneider and Weber, Schulz and Becker, Wagner and Hofmann, Schaeffer and Koch, Klein and Wolf, Schroedder, Lemmann and others.

Personal German names belong to the most ancient onyms. German surnames appeared much later.

The German personal names that we encounter today accumulated in it gradually and were borrowed from various sources. Some of them go back to ancient German onyms; many modern German names were borrowed from other peoples at different times. There is a particularly strong craving for foreign names these days.

In modern German-speaking culture, a person has two types of names: a personal name (Rufname) and a surname (Familienname). Patronymic (Vatersname) is absent in the German environment. In everyday life, the word der Name denotes a surname: “Mein Name ist Müller.”; "Wie war doch gleich der Name?" (“What’s your last name?” – common question a person who has forgotten the last name of the interlocutor): Der Name steht an der Wohnungstür. In official documents where required full name, there is a column “Vorname und Name”, i.e. personal name and surname.

Stories of German personal names

The oldest names of Germanic origin originated in the 7th–4th centuries. BC As in other Indo-European languages, they are composed of two parts and were designed to magically “influence” a person’s fate, give him strength, courage, victory, protection of the gods, etc. This is reflected in the etymology of ancient names that exist today such as Eberhart (“stark wie ein Eber”), Bemhart (“stark wie der Bär”), Wolfgang, cf. Russians Svyatoslav, Gorisveta, Vladimir. From the oldest layer of personal names - about 2,000 of them have been discovered - today there are hardly a hundred active ones. Already in early middle ages the “magical meaning” of personal names was completely lost.

In the second half of the 8th century. names associated with Christianity begin to penetrate into the German language from Italy: first, names from the Old Testament - Adam (Hebrew “first-born”), Susanne (Hebrew “lily”), then Andreas (Greek “brave”), Agathe (“ kind"), Katharina (“pure”), from Latin – Viktor “winner”, Beata “happy”. Biblical names were borrowed especially actively in the 15th century. Moreover, in Catholic families, preference was and is given to the names of saints - patrons of babies, in Lutheran families - to the names of biblical characters. Personal names with religious content were also created from German words and stems: Traugott, Fürchtegott, Gotthold, etc.

The choice of a personal name is often influenced by fashion
– then these are romantically “Nordic” (Knut, Olaf, Sven, Birgit), borrowed from ancient Germanic mythology or from the heroic epic (Siegfrid, Siegmund, etc.),
– those are French names (Annette, Claire, Nicole, Yvonne),
– either Russian (Vera, Natascha, Sascha), Italian or Anglo-American.
So, in 1983, in the Bern area (GDR, near Leipzig), the most common names for girls were Nicole, Anja, Susanne, Maudy, Christin, Yvonne. For boys - Christian, Thomas, Stefan, Patrick, Michael, Sebastian.

The fashion for names is largely shaped by imitation. In the old days, children were willingly given the names of monarchs (in Prussia - Friedrich, Wilhelm; in Saxony - August, Johann, Albert; in Austria - Joseph, Leopold, Maximilian), as well as the names of heroes of literary works.

Today, when choosing a name, there is a strong influence of cinema, television and pop music, and there is also a craving for originality, uniqueness, and unusualness of the name. Previously known names are often written in a foreign style: Elly, Sylvia, Gaby (instead of Elli, Silvia, Gabi). Some names have gone out of fashion. They are given very rarely today. People of the older generation have names that are no longer used today. (...)

In everyday life, many German personal names, especially long ones, are abbreviated, for example: Ulrich –> Ulli; Bertolt –> Bert(i); Bernhard –> Bernd; Katharina –> Kat(h)e; Friedrich –> Fritz; Heinrich –> Heinz, Harry; Johannes –> Hans; Susanne –> Susi. Some of these so-called hypocoristic names have now begun to be used on a par with the original ones, i.e. independently, for example: Fritz, Heinz, Hans.

German surnames

German surnames developed much later than German personal names. Origin of German surnames begins with the Middle Ages. They developed from so-called nicknames (Beinamen), which originally contained information
– about origin bearer of the name,
– about his place of birth: Walter von der Vogelweide, Dietrich von Berne.

Many nicknames indicated some physical or other differences of this person: Friedrich Barbarossa (= Rotbart, “Redbeard”), Heinrich der Lowe, etc. Over time, this nickname began to be passed on to the heirs and enshrined in official documents.

The famous German linguist W. Fleischer points out that from the 12th century. The appearance of German surnames begins first in large cities in the West. In the north, in the province of Hanover, they were introduced only in early XIX V. by order of Napoleon. Family names, surnames were assigned primarily to feudal lords. (...) Fleischer cites as an example the characters in Lessing’s play “Minna von Barnhelm”: Fräulein von Barnhelm, Major von Tellheim are nobles, while the servants are Just, Franziska. And today it is customary to call domestic servants simply by name, in contrast to the usual address:

Frau + first or last name

Herr + first or last name

The overwhelming majority of modern German surnames were formed from personal names (Walter, Hermann30 most common German surnames

1. Müller - miller
2. Schmidt - blacksmith

4. Fischer - fisherman

6. Weber - weaver

8. Becker - baker



12. Koch - cook



16. Wolf (Wolf) - wolf













30. König - king
, Peters, Jacobi), nicknames (Bart, Stolz) and names of professions and occupations (Müller, Schmidt, Koch, Schulze, Schumacher).

The most popular German surnames. List of 30 surnames

1. Müller - miller
2. Schmidt - blacksmith
3. Schneider - tailor
4. Fischer - fisherman
5. Meier - property manager
6. Weber - weaver
7. Wagner - carriage maker, carriage maker
8. Becker - baker
9. Schulz - headman
10. Hofmann, Hoffmann - courtier
11. Schäfer - shepherd
12. Koch - cook
13. Bauer - peasant
14. Richter - judge
15. Klein - small
16. Wolf (Wolf) - wolf
17. Schröder - tailor
18. Neumann - new man
19. Schwarz - black (black-haired)
20. Zimmermann - carpenter
21. Brown (Braun) - brown
22. Kruger - potter
23. Hartmann - from the male name Hartmann
24. Lange - long (large)
25. Werner - from the male name Werner
26. Krause - curly
27. Lehmann - landowner
28. Köhler - coal miner
29. Hermann - from the male name Herrmann
30. König - king

List of popular German surnames

* Abicht
* Adler
* Eikhenwald
* Albrecht
* Altman
* Appel
* Arnold

* Baade
* Baum
* Bauman
* Baumgarten
*Baur
* Bauer
* Bach
* Bachman
* Bebel
* Benz
* Berg
* Berger
* Bergman
* Berend
* Behrens
* Bilderling
* Form
* Block
* Blucher
* Bonke
* Borzig
* Borman
* Brandt
* Braunfels
* Bremer
* Brenner
* Brunner
* Brunet
* Burckhardt
* Bülow

* Wagner
* Weigl
* Weiss
* Walser
* Walter
* Wasserman
* Weber
* Wegener
* Veltman
* Wenzel
* Werner
* Winkelhock
* Winterhalter
* Virt
* Wolf
* Wolzogen
* Wulf

* Hasenclover
* Ganz
* Hardenberg
* Hartung
* Goebbels
* Haeckel
* Gehlen
* Geller
* Genkel
* Goering
* Hertz

* Hess
* Hesse
* Himmler (disambiguation)
* Hirsch
* Girshman
* Hitler
* Glazenap
*Grimm
* Grossman
* Gruber

* Delbrück
* Diels
* Drexler

*Zach
* Zaks
* Zaleman
* Seidemann
* Seydlitz
* Seiler
* Semper
* Sievers
* Siegel
* Zilberman
* Silberstein
* Simmel
* Singer
* Sommer

* Yeager
* Jens
* Jensen
* Jentsch
* Yerg
* Josef
* Jon
* Yost

* Kade
* Kallenberg
* Callisen
* Kalb
* Kalkbrenner
* Kaltenbrunner
* Cantor
* Carus
* Kaulbach
* Kaufman
* Cauer
* Katz
* Koehler
* Keller
* Kellerman
* Ker
* Kirchner
* Kirchner
* Kittel
* Cool
* Klee
* Klein
* Kleiner
* Kleinerman
* Kleinman
* Kleist
* Klemperer
* Klenze
* Klinger
* Klotz
* Kleiber

* Klein
* Kleiner
* Knecht
* Kolbe
* Kopp
* Corf
* Kramer
* Krause
* Kraus
* Krebs
* Krenz
* Kretschmer
* Kruse
* Kun
* Kurtz
* Küng
* Köhler
* Koehne
* Koenig
* Koestlin

* Lamprecht
* Landsberg
* Laufer
* Leitner
* Lenz
* Liebknecht
* Lipsius
* Lichtenberg
* Loos

* Mayer
* Mackensen
* Mahler
* Mann
*Mezières
* Meyendorff
* Meyer
* Meissner
* Meltzer
* Meltzer
* Merkel
* Merz
* Metzger
*Moderzon
* Morgner
* Moritz
* Mozart
*Müller
* Mobius

* Nagel
* Bernhard
* Nikolai
* Nolken
* Notbeck
* Nöller

* Overback
* Osterman

* Patkul
*Pearl
* Preuss

* Ratzenberger
* Rau
* Rausch
* Rebinder
* Reinhardt
* Rennenkampf
* Riedel
* Rickert
* Rogge
* Rosenbaum
* Romberg
* Rothman
* Rothschild
* Rumpf
* Rumpff

* Sartorius
* Segal

* Thyssen
* Tischbein

* Feigenbaum
* Feuerbach
* Finkelstein
* Fischer
* Fleischer
* Fleishman
* Voigt
* Von Richthofen
* Von Feuerbach
* Franke
* Frieze

* Frisch
* Fuchs
* Furstenberg

* Haas
* Hagen
* Huckle
* Hanke
* Herzog
* Honecker
* Hopp
* Hoffman

* Zimmerman
* Zuckerman
* Zurbriggen

* Schwartz
* Shvartsman
* Schweitzer
* Scheidemann
* Schelling
* Schaefer
* Schaeffer
* Shekhtel
* Schiller
* Shirman

* Slate
* Schlechter
* Schmidt
* Schmitz
* Schneider
* Shneiderman
* Scholl
* Spiegel
* Sprenger
* Schreyer
* Shredder
* Stackelberg
* Stein
* Stern
* Schubert
* Shulman
* Schultze
* Schulze
* Schumacher

* Ebel
* Ebert
* Erdman
* Etinger

Such a maneuver can hardly be called deception - most likely it is a pseudonym, a way to use your favorite names and surnames.

The most popular nicknames for social networking accounts are German surnames.

Girls especially often use German surnames. By monitoring the accounts, you can identify particularly popular options.

List of popular German surnames for girls with translation

Before using a specific German surname, it is worth knowing the exact translation. Sometimes funny stories happen when the “carrier” learns the translation from friends or acquaintances.

The peculiarity of German surnames lies in their origin. Each option has historical origins: profession, social status, habits.

Pay attention! It is worth knowing the ethics regarding writing surnames in German. Some options cannot be used by a girl, others are not suitable for men.

Thanks to the lists, you can choose a surname not only with a normal meaning, but also a beautiful sounding one. There are lists of the most popular options, compiled according to statistics from German institutions.

Translation for German surnames:

German surnames for girls	List in Russian
Müller	Miller. Has ancient roots. The translation itself speaks of the craft that the family has been engaged in for a long time.
Schmidt	Blacksmith. Included in the 30 most popular options and also determines the artisanal past of the family
Schneider	Fisherman. This value determines a person’s hobby more. It happened that this was the name given to fish or seafood merchants
König	King. The owners of such property were the closest relatives of the monarch
Schwarz	Black or dark-haired. Appeared as a nickname for people who had features and appearance that were non-standard for the German people
Brown	Brown. Sometimes this was the name given to people who wore clothes exclusively brown or had brown hair, brown eyes
Hartmann	Derived from the male name Hartmann. The clan received such a surname if the family did not have any special differences, occupations, or privileges
Wagner	Wagner
Richter	Judge. Previously, only noble people who administered justice had such a surname

Beautiful German names and their meanings

German female names are very beautiful and sonorous, as they combine Latin, Greek, Scandinavian and English motifs.

Some of them are inherent in the Slavic peoples and are actively used. It is considered fashionable to give children foreign names. Especially if it's a girl.

Some variants of names are also popular in our country, but they are sweet-sounding and do not hurt the ear with their non-standard pronunciation.

When choosing a foreign name for a girl, it is important to know the meaning and translation.

Beautiful female names and their meanings:

1. Amalia is translated as work. Assigned to hardworking and diligent girls.
2. Beata has ecclesiastical origins and literally means blessed.
3. Bertha is magnificent, the most wonderful and charming.
4. Irma has a direct translation: dedicated to the god of war. There are Roman roots here.
5. Katarina or Katherine means pure maiden. The owners were the daughters of shepherds and people of clergy.
6. Laura was the name given to people in Rome who received a laurel wreath - a sign of greatness and victory.
7. Malvina has a literal translation - friend of justice.
8. Sophie and everything that comes from him are defined as wisdom.
9. Teresa is translated from German as beloved or strong. Borrowed from Greek, where it means female hunters.
10. Eleanor has two meanings. The first is foreign, and the second is different.
11. Elvira is the protector of everyone.
12. Jadwiga is the name of a rich warrior who glorified one of the Scandinavian villages.

There are options for double names that combine Slavic and German names.

Many believe that this combination activates energy centers that are responsible for certain areas of human activity.

Which German surname and first name should I choose for the VKontakte network?

It is also important that this VKontakte account is not encountered too often.

1. According to statistics The most harmonious and interesting are the following German surnames: Mayer, Weber, Braun, Werner, Lehmann.

   Their popularity is indicated by their bearers - they are all famous people of art and science.

2. Most Popular names in Germany according to registry office statistics for the last 30 years: Sophie, Marie, Hannah.

   For last year the most frequently registered girls are the following names: Mia, Emma, ​​Lilly, Emilia, Maya, Sarah.

3. Can interpret your name as foreign, changing the ending, stress, and pronunciation inherent in the language.

   For example, Sofia sounds like Sophie in a foreign way; Maria, like Marie.

If your account contains a German first and last name, then when choosing, you should work on the consonance. Even the simplest and most popular first and last names often do not go together.

Attention! An interesting option it will be the German version of the surname with the real name of the owner of the page on the social network. This technique is most popular among teenagers.

The advantage of German names is that they all have certain meaning and meaning.

There are no fictional options that do not carry any semantic meaning. Therefore, the choice for a social network must be thoughtful.

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