App Detail » Surname Dictionary: origin, meaning and history

What's New

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

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We fixed issues that cause crash on some iOS versions. This update is fully tested and works well.

App Description

This app provides an offline version of Surname Dictionary

Containing 48000 entries, this is a comprehensive reference work of the origins, meanings and history of people's names and places' name.

The app present information about the language or region in which the surname originated, major events in the history of noted names, the original meaning, peculiarites of regional distribution, and in some cases the form, date, and location of early instances of the name.

Uniquely organized to allow comparison between names that share the same etymology, the dictionary groups together within a single entry many different cognate and variant forms, including diminutives and patronymics.

This dictionary will be interesting and accessible to the general reader, and an essential reference tool for historians, genealogists, philologists, and local family history societies.

▸ User-defined list
- Create your own lists

▸ Write a note
- Write a note for each entry

▸ iCloud Sync and back up
- Sync and back up your lists, notes, bookmarks to iCloud

▸ Basic features include:
- Easy navigation
- Bookmark a word
- Search a word
- Flashcard
- Multiple choice quiz

▸ If you want to suggest a new feature or report an issue, please use feedback feature in the app or send a message to our fb page. Thank you!

App Changes

• June 16, 2019 Initial release