Your Last Name...Derivation. (1 Viewer)

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Which nationality/language does your last name come from? Looking for just the last name itself...not your pedigree.

If yours isn't one of the poll choices or you chose "other" please specify.

This is for science.

 

[Mr. Ected]

I assume if your last name is an anglicized version from another language, you go with the original, right?

Mine is a more anglicized version of my aunt Michele's , still German, tho.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I assume if your last name is an anglicized version from another language, you go with the original, right?

Mine is a more anglicized version of my aunt Michele's , still German, tho.

I guess just go with what every fits culturally if there is a choice. Like "Abraham(s)" is actually Hebrew but I'm guessing that most people here in America would be of English heritage.

 

[Zow]

Polish -- but my great great great grandparents were kind enough to drop the "ki" when they arrived.

 

[Cjw_55106]

Polish -- but my great great great grandparents were kind enough to drop the "ki" when they arrived.

That was nice of them. It would suck to go through life as Dumbasski.

 

[Zow]

Polish -- but my great great great grandparents were kind enough to drop the "ki" when they arrived.

That was nice of them. It would suck to go through life as Dumbasski.

Dumas is French, Frenchie

 

[John Bender]

Welsh

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Hungarian but I have seen German and English variations which are more common

 

[spOOfy]

i'm a mc

 

[cstu]

Scottish royalty.

 

[Cjw_55106]

Scottish royalty.

Ah, underachiever of the family? Congrats!

 

[the moops]

my last name is made up

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Welsh

I knew I left one off. Sorry, mayne.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Welsh

I knew I left one off. Sorry, mayne.

Same here. I clicked on English. Same pastey skinned ancestory though my dad was fairly dark skinned and black hair.

 

[rascal]

Irish...dropped the "o" thanks to same immigration official

 

[xulf]

German

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Irish...dropped the "o" thanks to same immigration official

Oddly enough those "Ellis Island screw-ups" (like in Godfather 2) were very few and far between. The majority of name changes/adjustments were done by the immigrants themselves later on. Either to make their name easier to spell or become more "Americanized".

 

[skol asylum]

Whole lotta Nazi scum in the FFA.

 

[Tom Servo]

French, because I'm arrogant and snobbish for no apparent reason.

 

[Jayrod]

German

This. My dad is 100% Deutscher and I'm slightly over half thanks to my mom's dad.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Welsh

 

[MattFancy]

Last name is Italian. I'm half Italian, half Irish.

 

[Todem]

Whole lotta Nazi scum in the FFA.

German (Jew)

Try again.

 

[skol asylum]

Whole lotta Nazi scum in the FFA.

German (Jew) Try again.

Whole lotta Jew bankers in the FFA.

 

[Mjolnirs]

French ... Huguenots that came over in the 1700s. The name ends in "eau"

 

[sdp1226]

Mi apellido es de España.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Fewer Micks than I expected. Or maybe they haven't found anyone to read them the choices yet.

 

[jamny]

German

This. My dad is 100% Deutscher and I'm slightly over half thanks to my mom's dad.

Both my parents came from Germany.

 

[xulf]

Fewer Micks than I expected. Or maybe they haven't found anyone to read them the choices yet.

I'm half German and half Irish -- just my last name is German. My middle name is a "Mc" name and was my mothers maiden name.

 

[17seconds]

Fewer Micks than I expected. Or maybe they haven't found anyone to read them the choices yet.

I'm half German and half Irish -- just my last name is German. My middle name is a "Mc" name and was my mothers maiden name.

You'd make a great consigliere

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Fewer Micks than I expected. Or maybe they haven't found anyone to read them the choices yet.

I'm half German and half Irish -- just my last name is German. My middle name is a "Mc" name and was my mothers maiden name.

Too drunk to try to take over Europe.

 

[John Bender]

Welsh

I knew I left one off. Sorry, mayne.

Same here. I clicked on English. Same pastey skinned ancestory though my dad was fairly dark skinned and black hair.

Welsh

I knew I left one off. Sorry, mayne.

No prob Tanner.

My last name is a small village in Wales, so it's not really up for interpretation.

Wales is stupid tho...I'd have forgotten it too.

Welsh

Hi friends!

 

[General Malaise]

THEY CAN TAKE OUR LIVES....................BUT THEY WILL NEVER TAKE OUR FREEEEEEEEDOMMMMMM!!!!!

 

[mr roboto]

English. Famous explorer last name. But my moms side is 'King' which the family translated from Roy when moving from Quebec to the states 5 generations ago.

My English and French ancestors both arrived here in the early 1600's. My German ancestors in the late 1700s and my Native American ancestors... Land bridge!

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Last name is Italian. I'm half Italian, half Irish.

Nothing better than a drunken mobster.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

my last name is made up

Same here. And don't ask what my parents did for a living.

 

[xulf]

English. Famous explorer last name. But my moms side is 'King' which the family translated from Roy when moving from Quebec to the states 5 generations ago.

My English and French ancestors both arrived here in the early 1600's. My German ancestors in the late 1700s and my Native American ancestors... Land bridge!

Your last name is Dora? That's pretty cool.

 

[Epic Problem]

Welsh

I knew I left one off. Sorry, mayne.

Same here. I clicked on English. Same pastey skinned ancestory though my dad was fairly dark skinned and black hair.

Welsh

I knew I left one off. Sorry, mayne.

No prob Tanner.

My last name is a small village in Wales, so it's not really up for interpretation.

Wales is stupid tho...I'd have forgotten it too.

Welsh

Hi friends!

Pay up, ya ####### deadbeats

 

[matttyl]

Irish...dropped the "o" thanks to same immigration official

Oddly enough those "Ellis Island screw-ups" (like in Godfather 2) were very few and far between. The majority of name changes/adjustments were done by the immigrants themselves later on. Either to make their name easier to spell or become more "Americanized".

On my mother's side (so not my last name) 3 siblings went through Ellis Island and were in 3 different lines - and each had their last name spelled differently. One was a sister, so it didn't go anywhere, but with two brothers we now have two "different sides of the family" with a different spelling of the same last name.

Oh, I voted English.

 

[NCCommish]

Name is essentially made up. They took the first, middle and last letters to make it. Family origin is from somewhere in Eastern Europe.

 

[The Tick]

Other: Last name is Armenian, they pretty commonly end in "ian". Grandfather's parents came over from Armenia shortly before he was born. We've kept the name as is, but hacked the pronunciation to Americanize, my sister gets ugly looks when the traditional Armenian Americans that live in her Brooklyn neighborhood hear her pronounce her name.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Whole lotta Nazi scum in the FFA.

German (Jew)

Try again.

This. I have a hard time ticking the German box under the circumstances.

 

[skol asylum]

English. Famous explorer last name. But my moms side is 'King' which the family translated from Roy when moving from Quebec to the states 5 generations ago.

My English and French ancestors both arrived here in the early 1600's. My German ancestors in the late 1700s and my Native American ancestors... Land bridge!

I've been away from school for too long. I don't remember an explorer named Roboto. What did he discover?

 

[Andrew74]

Scottish royalty.

Mine's the Scottish family that really ran the country...

 

[Stoneys]

Last name is slovenian. Spelling was slightly changed. Original pronunciation has been lost.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

English. Famous explorer last name. But my moms side is 'King' which the family translated from Roy when moving from Quebec to the states 5 generations ago.

My English and French ancestors both arrived here in the early 1600's. My German ancestors in the late 1700s and my Native American ancestors... Land bridge!

I've been away from school for too long. I don't remember an explorer named Roboto. What did he discover?

The River Styx?

 

[McGarnicle]

Dutch Irish. My father was from Wales.

 

[El Floppo]

Belorussian names you.

 

[comfortably numb]

I'm the guy who voted Portuguese

 

[Mors Venit]

Mine is just an anglo name indicating my family were immigrants from another european country