BARANY Origin of surname
BARANY
Surnames derive from one of many different origins. Sometimes there may be more than one explanation for the same name. This family name is a toponymic (derived from a geographic name of a town, city, region or country). Surnames that are based on place names do not always testify to direct origin from that place, but may indicate an indirect relation between the name-bearer or his ancestors and the place, such as birth place, temporary residence, trade, or family-relatives.
Baranja is a region in northern Croatia. Baranya is a county in southern Hungary where Jews lived since the early 18th century. Barany, an equivalent of the German Lamm, means "lamb" in Hungarian. As a Jewish name it is also a "secular equivalent" of the biblical As(c)her. As(c)her, meaning "the happy one" in Hebrew, was a son of Jacob and Leah's handmaid Zilpah (Genesis 30.12). The form A-s-sa-ra is mentioned in Egyptian documents from the days of Seti I (1309-1291 BCE). The German spelling, Ascher, is recorded as a family name in 1196 in Worms in western Germany. Many variants have evolved, some of which became the source of other groups of names, among them Anselme, mentioned in Wuerzburg, Germany, in 1212, and later also in North Africa; the Latinized Anzelinus, recorded in Savoy in 1294; Oscher, documented in 1495 in Lutzelbourg in the French department of Moselle; Amschel, found in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, in 1691, and others. Diminutives of the 'kinnui' ("secular equivalent") Lamm include Lemle (recorded in 1548), Lemmel (1680), Laemmel (1762), Laemle and L'hemele (1784). Yet another connection between Ascher and diminutives of Lamm is provided by the 15th/16th century false messiah Ascher, also known as Lem(m)lein/Lamml(e)in.
Distinguished bearers of the Jewish family name Barany include the Hungarian-born Austrian surgeon, Robert Barany (1876-1936) who won the 1914 Nobel prize for medicine, and the 20th century Hungarian-born American historian and educator, George Barany.
Surnames derive from one of many different origins. Sometimes there may be more than one explanation for the same name. This family name is a toponymic (derived from a geographic name of a town, city, region or country). Surnames that are based on place names do not always testify to direct origin from that place, but may indicate an indirect relation between the name-bearer or his ancestors and the place, such as birth place, temporary residence, trade, or family-relatives.
Baranja is a region in northern Croatia. Baranya is a county in southern Hungary where Jews lived since the early 18th century. Barany, an equivalent of the German Lamm, means "lamb" in Hungarian. As a Jewish name it is also a "secular equivalent" of the biblical As(c)her. As(c)her, meaning "the happy one" in Hebrew, was a son of Jacob and Leah's handmaid Zilpah (Genesis 30.12). The form A-s-sa-ra is mentioned in Egyptian documents from the days of Seti I (1309-1291 BCE). The German spelling, Ascher, is recorded as a family name in 1196 in Worms in western Germany. Many variants have evolved, some of which became the source of other groups of names, among them Anselme, mentioned in Wuerzburg, Germany, in 1212, and later also in North Africa; the Latinized Anzelinus, recorded in Savoy in 1294; Oscher, documented in 1495 in Lutzelbourg in the French department of Moselle; Amschel, found in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, in 1691, and others. Diminutives of the 'kinnui' ("secular equivalent") Lamm include Lemle (recorded in 1548), Lemmel (1680), Laemmel (1762), Laemle and L'hemele (1784). Yet another connection between Ascher and diminutives of Lamm is provided by the 15th/16th century false messiah Ascher, also known as Lem(m)lein/Lamml(e)in.
Distinguished bearers of the Jewish family name Barany include the Hungarian-born Austrian surgeon, Robert Barany (1876-1936) who won the 1914 Nobel prize for medicine, and the 20th century Hungarian-born American historian and educator, George Barany.