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What is the origin of your surmame/last name?

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  1. AlamoCity

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    DON'T post your last name :lol:. Simply state what is the country of origin or region of your family name.

    If you have no idea, you can try a website like this one Last Name Meanings and Origins | Search Surnames at Ancestry.com


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    Mine is Basque (Spanish).
     
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    Welsh.
     
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    According to that site: English, French, German, Dutch, Danish, and South Indian.

    It's an incredibly common name :dry:
     
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    It's Welsh, although that is kind of a facade. The individual who gave us that name was not the biological father of the kin from which we descended :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:.



    In reality, I'm basically Norwegian on every side. Or as Norwegian as an American can be, anyways. :lol:


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    In fact, as I look at that site, I do believe I spy the relative on my father's mother's side who came over to Minnesota by way of Bergen... which is extremely cool..
     
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    It's entirely unique to my family. It is derived from the name of a mythical Lappish king, because my family got rid of their Swedish name when Finnicisation became popular in the early 1900s as an act of anti-Russian defiance. Searching it online doesn't help at all when your family is the only in the world with its name. :lol:
     
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    My great-great grandfather made it up.
    Seriously.
     
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    English and Scottish, but it's ridiculously common, so there are a million different versions in a million different languages.

    I plan on getting it changed.
     
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    Mine is a Spanish name. The second one, which is used where I live, is French. Both are very uncommon where I live and if someone I don't know haves it, there is a lot of probability that they are very distant relatives.
     
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    Last name of German origin, but original word was a Latin word the Germans borrowed for their own language.
     
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    Well, you know my last name but uh...English, Scottish, Irish, German, and Scandinavian
     
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    French
     
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    Same here, lol. My last name is LONG... and definitely Dutch. >//< My parents once explained where it came from but I don't even remember, heh.
     
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    Spanish (shocking..)
     
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    Most told me Swedish, but this site told me English.
     
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    My high school physics teacher was from the Phillipines and mentioned how there was a certain amount of "prestige" in having a Spanish surname, at least in her town (she had a more traditional Filipino surname).
     
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    Technically it's English, but it is Scandinavian in meaning. It's a bastardization of the phrase "Thor's Cauldron" a reference to the Norse myth where Thor and Tyr steal a massive cauldron from Hymir, one of the giants. There's actually about fifteen surnames, all variations in spelling, that have the same origin.
     
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    Great Britain but mostly england
     
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    It means a word in Italian.
     
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    Yeah we have a lot of Spanish surnames here only because we were colonised by them for 300 years lol.
     
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    English and Scottish, cool :slight_smile:
     
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