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

[Foosball God]

Mine is made up, but it is based off of a German name. It probably happened at Ellis Island when he came over on the boat.

 

[Brony]

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.

weird. I'm half German/half Irish with German last name too. My first name is my mothers maiden name. (not McLovin as I'm sure you assumed)

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Swiss

 

[Buzzbait]

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.

No...that's her first name. Last name is "Explorer" Come on man. <_<

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

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.

Fresno?

 

[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".

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.

Weird. It would be cool to see those records.

 

[Tom Servo]

Swiss

So cheesy.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Swiss

So cheesy.

I'm genetically inclined to not argue that.

 

[belljr]

Middle English

 

[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!

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

Your mom.

 

[mr roboto]

Swiss

So cheesy.

I'm genetically inclined to not argue that.

You must love Minnesota then.

 

[ShamrockPride]

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

Dammit man, now I wanna know...

 

[xulf]

Cacka?

 

[Stoneys]

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

Just looked up the meaning of my last name...Slovenian - nickname for a person with a beak shaped nose....so I got that going for me, which is nice...

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Bump for more votes.

And can't believe we don't have and Greeks around here.

 

[Kanil]

My parents were huge hippies and ended up hyphenating my last name. Mom's side is Irish, Dad's side is English.

 

[General Malaise]

Bump for more votes.

And can't believe we don't have and Greeks around here.

Oh we do....they love to dress in all purple, hate the tediousness of fantasy football trades and free agency and like to start threads with titles like "NACHO RECIPES...WATCHA GOT???"

 

[FUBAR]

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

Just looked up the meaning of my last name...Slovenian - nickname for a person with a beak shaped nose....so I got that going for me, which is nice...

that's somewhat better than "Son of _____"

 

[Statcruncher]

A quick Google shows my surname is of Slavic origin and is a shortened version of a Sorbian word. According to Forebears only 633 people in the world currently have this last name..

 

[#1 Fan of Nigel Tufnel]

Bump for more votes.

And can't believe we don't have and Greeks around here.

parasopholous down, bro?

 

[TobiasFunke]

My last name was pretty much invented out of nothing at Ellis Island. Took the first syllable they could kind of make out coming from my great-grandparents' mouths, threw up some letters to approximate it, and voila.

My roots are Eastern European Jewish but I get invitations to black family reunions from time to time because of the name. One of these days I'm gonna show up.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Bump for more votes.

And can't believe we don't have and Greeks around here.

Oh we do....they love to dress in all purple, hate the tediousness of fantasy football trades and free agency and like to start threads with titles like "NACHO RECIPES...WATCHA GOT???"

Prince?

 

[Don Quixote]

My last name was pretty much invented out of nothing at Ellis Island. Took the first syllable they could kind of make out coming from my great-grandparents' mouths, threw up some letters to approximate it, and voila.

My roots are Eastern European Jewish but I get invitations to black family reunions from time to time because of the name. One of these days I'm gonna show up.

Speaking on behalf of the entirety of the Dutch contingent, I think it's close enough to Dutch.

 

[boilerdave]

A quick Google shows my surname is of Slavic origin and is a shortened version of a Sorbian word. According to Forebears only 633 people in the world currently have this last name..

Interesting. Approximately 1,933 people bear my surname.

 

[TobiasFunke]

My last name was pretty much invented out of nothing at Ellis Island. Took the first syllable they could kind of make out coming from my great-grandparents' mouths, threw up some letters to approximate it, and voila.

My roots are Eastern European Jewish but I get invitations to black family reunions from time to time because of the name. One of these days I'm gonna show up.

Speaking on behalf of the entirety of the Dutch contingent, I think it's close enough to Dutch.

I presume an 18th Century Dutchman owned a large plantation somewhere in the deep south.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Swiss

So cheesy.

I'm genetically inclined to not argue that.

You must love Minnesota then.

Yes and no.

 

[fantasycurse42]

My name?

#### you, that's my name!

 

[Cold Dead Hands]

Scots-Irish

 

[Al Czervik]

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

eau really?

 

[Amused to Death]

I'm half German and half Irish -- just my last name is German.

 

[TheAristocrat]

I'm half German and half Irish -- just my last name is German.

Me too. My name properly identifies my ancestry. (well, most of it)

 

[Foosball God]

A quick Google shows my surname is of Slavic origin and is a shortened version of a Sorbian word. According to Forebears only 633 people in the world currently have this last name..

320 for mine

 

[Cold Dead Hands]

A quick Google shows my surname is of Slavic origin and is a shortened version of a Sorbian word. According to Forebears only 633 people in the world currently have this last name..

320 for mine

1.4 million

 

[-fish-]

last name assigned to grandfather at Ellis Island...so now German(ish).

 

[El Floppo]

A quick Google shows my surname is of Slavic origin and is a shortened version of a Sorbian word. According to Forebears only 633 people in the world currently have this last name..

320 for mine

332

mostly in the US and Austria.

there's a family rumor that the first and last letters were switched at Ellis Island, as my grandfather (who disappeared when my dad was 2 in 1934) showed up in records from there both ways.

 

[Snoopy]

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

eau really?

As in Lambeau?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

A quick Google shows my surname is of Slavic origin and is a shortened version of a Sorbian word. According to Forebears only 633 people in the world currently have this last name..

320 for mine

332

mostly in the US and Austria.

there's a family rumor that the first and last letters were switched at Ellis Island, as my grandfather (who disappeared when my dad was 2 in 1934) showed up in records from there both ways.

123K Most in the USA.

'merica

 

[Kanil]

A quick Google shows my surname is of Slavic origin and is a shortened version of a Sorbian word. According to Forebears only 633 people in the world currently have this last name..

Cool site.

0 people with my full last hyphenated name according to that site. I know of 3.

Dad's surname:

Global incidence: 18,636

Most Prevalent: US

Highest Density: Barbados

Mom's surname:

Global incidence: 132,069

Most Prevalent: US

Highest Density: Montserrat

 

[El Floppo]

A quick Google shows my surname is of Slavic origin and is a shortened version of a Sorbian word. According to Forebears only 633 people in the world currently have this last name..

Cool site.

0 people with my full last hyphenated name according to that site. I know of 3.

Dad's surname:

Global incidence: 18,636

Most Prevalent: US

Highest Density: Barbados

Mom's surname:

Global incidence: 132,069

Most Prevalent: US

Highest Density: Montserrat

Cumberpatch? Boyce? Gumbs?

 

[Buckfast 1]

I was always told that my surname was German and that my ancestors had dropped a "Van" before the name to Americanize it. But I did some deeper research into my ancestry a couple years ago, and I learned that my surname was most likely of Scottish origin. The German rumor apparently came about because one of my ancestors in Nova Scotia married a German woman. Kind of a cool discovery for me considering that I previously lived in Scotland for six months and my FBG handle is derived from an infamous caffeinated tonic wine that is blamed for most of Scotland's societal ills.

 

[skol asylum]

A quick Google shows my surname is of Slavic origin and is a shortened version of a Sorbian word. According to Forebears only 633 people in the world currently have this last name..

Interesting. Approximately 1,933 people bear my surname.

217,000

I have a whole army.

 

[Christo]

France via England

 

[Mjolnirs]

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

eau really?

As in Lambeau?

As a Vikings fan, I hate that example. But, yes, like that.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Germans are the most populous ethnicity in the US.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Germans are the most populous ethnicity in the US.

Whoa

 

[grateful zed]

heil, guys.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

last name assigned to grandfather at Ellis Island...so now German(ish).

What was it before?

 

[jon_mx]

I believe the origin of the name is French, but the dude was born in Germany and migrated to One of the Scandinavian countries before coming to Philly by boat and settling in rual Pennselvania. He had 17 kids by two wives. During the first couple of generations the records show numerous misspellings of the name until by the third generation they settled on a consistent misspelling.(I know shocking). I am pretty sure everyone with my last name can be traced to that one dude.