The study of the origin of family names is at the same time quite simple and very difficult.
It would be hard to say which English font-name has given the largest number of family names.
The sept or family names of the Uriya Paiks sufficiently indicate their mixed descent.
The Mallahs in the Central Provinces appear from their family names to be immigrants from Bundelkhand.
Some section or family names, such as Bamhania, Patela, Barhele and others, are common to people calling themselves Rajjhar and Rajbhar.
They also have bargas or family names as Thakur (lord), Danaik, Amayat and Bishi.
Family names like Nash, Nokes are aphetic for atten ash, at the ash, atten oakes, at the oaks.
This work gives us an alphabet of family names, under each of which are grouped the titles of books in which that special name is treated, with citation of the page.
Several of the sept or family names of the caste are also taken from the Gonds, and this shows an admixture of Gond blood; the Injhwars are thus probably a mixed group of Gonds, Gowaris, and Binjhwars or Baigas.
But on the other hand all that is known of their language, customs, and sept or family names points to a purely Maratha origin, the caste being in all these respects closely analogous to the Kunbis.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "family names" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
