Last name: Born. This ancient name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is one of the earliest topographical surnames existing today. The derivation is from the Old English pre 7th Century burna, burne, spring, stream, which was originally used as a topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream.
Answer   By far, soccer (called fussball in German) is the most popular sport in Germany.   Second place is handball, which is like a combination of basketball (ball â¦ control and passing) and soccer (position of goalie, goal net). + 51 others found this useful. Keith Craven.
Christianity is the largest religion in Germany, with around 49.4 million adherents (62.8%) in 2008 of which 24 million are Protestants (29.3%) belonging to the EKD and 23.9 million are Catholics (29.2%) in 2010, the remainder belong to small denominations (each considerably less than 0.5% of the German population).