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English (northern): habitational name from Salkeld (Cumberland), probably from Old English salh ‘willow, sallow’ + hylte ‘wood’, though the final element may have been confused with Old Norse kelda ‘spring, marshy place’. Alternatively, the final element may be an Old English hilde, a variant of helde ‘slope’. This surname has been present (though never common) in Ireland for ...

History: As a name of German origin (see 1 above) the surname Horst is established among the American Mennonites. Their progenitors were the brothers Joseph, Michael, and Peter Horst, who came to PA in 1731 together with their widowed mother.

Within English-speaking countries, a child is typically given the surname of the father. Other traditions use the surname inherited by the mother from her father, and still others use a combination of the parents’ surnames.

Some characteristic forenames: Italian Angelo, Domenic, Ugo, Amerigo, Carmine, Ciro, Domenico, Donato, Enrico, Ettore, Ireneo, Luciano.

German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and Dutch: from Middle High German kumin, German Kümmel ‘caraway’ (related to Latin cuminum, a word of Oriental origin, like the plant itself), hence a metonymic occupational name for a spicer, literally a supplier of caraway seeds.. English (London): variant of Kemble and Kimble .

The surname is spread throughout Russia and particularly common in the Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Novosibirsk and Moscow regions. Gusev surname representatives also live in the CIS states (Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc. ), in the Baltic states, Germany and the USA.

Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Golda, Reuven, Aharon, Ahron, Aron, Esfir, Hyman, Isadore, Itzchak, Izhak. Russian Mikhail, Vladimir, Boris, Fedor, Leonid ...