List of 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
Suffixes
(Sorted from right to left)
- -ić -- Bosniak, Croatian, Serbian
- -nd -- French
- -rd -- French
- -ang -- Chinese, Korean
- -ski -- Macedonian, Polish, Russian
- -ak -- Polish
- -ák -- Czech
- -ek -- Czech, Polish
- -ik -- Polish
- -yk -- Polish
- -nen -- Finnish
- -sen -- Danish, Norwegian
- -ssen -- Norwegian
- -sson -- Swedish
- -er -- French, German
- -is -- Greek
- -ems -- Flemish
- -ens -- Flemish
- -opulos -- Greek
- -ers -- Flemish
- -to -- Japanese
- -escu -- Romanian
- -ov -- Bulgarian, Russian
- -ný -- Czech
- -ez -- Spanish (including Spanish - speaking countries)