Linguistic origin of surnames in your family!

[Sikeliot]

What are the origin of your family surnames?
Don't feel pressured to share the surnames if you think it compromises your privacy. I am only sharing the ones that will not immediately compromise my family's privacy of course.

My own last name has variations throughout south-central Italy; mine is the Sicilian version but there are versions of it in Calabria, and throughout other parts of Italy with various suffixes corresponding to region. It's probably in some way or another of Latin root.

My paternal grandfather's mother's surname is Lipari, which is a place name in Messina. Lipari in Sicily was named Lypàra by ancient poet Callimachus, and today you find men with the surname Liparis and women with the corresponding spelling, Lipari, in Greece (final S gets dropped for women).

My great grandmother on my paternal grandmother's side, hers was Costanzo, which has variations in southern Italy (Constanza being the other common one) and in Greece (Constantinou, Constantinopoulos, etc.) so what it might have been before, we'll never know. It's a common root in Italian and Balkan languages, you even see people in the Balkan Slavic countries with surnames like Konstantinov.

On my Portuguese side you have all of the typical Portuguese and Cape Verdean surnames -- Marques, Tavares, Teixeira, Gomes, etc. Most of these are also common in Brazil as well, and have a uniform distribution throughout Portugal.

On my Polish side, many of the surnames have been Anglicized in one way or another, but not all.

[Damião de Góis]

My surnames are all portuguese and i don't think they have spanish equivalents. From what i gathered two of them are of northern origin while one is southern. These two surnames stayed with my grandparents and didn't pass to me, but they are part of my ancestry as well:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-69pyFYo6CRw/UfblE1NavDI/AAAAAAAADfw/v2kVlQY8el0/s1600/Joana+Barradas%252C+Portuguese+people.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4dknN0HlDE4/UcYNM1saLtI/AAAAAAAABTo/2V_3XmIQVGg/s1600/Ana+Rocha,+Portuguese_people.jpg

[Empecinado]

From Castilian, Catalan, Occitan, Galician, Mozarabic, Andalusian Arabic and Basque languages.

[Prince Carlo]

I've got a French surname from Father line apparently.

[Methmatician]

My surname comes from the Ottoman Turkish word for "Lord".

[Dombra]

I have two surnames, a Swedish (possible German origin though if you believe some in my family) and a French.

My paternal grandma had a Swedish name and my maternal had a Finnish

[Tacitus]

Main surname is Greek or possibly Greco-Albanian (extremely rare regardless), one great-great grandmother's comes from Ancient Greek with the rest Latin-derived on both sides.

[Scholarios]

Mine is the Hellenized version of the Hebrew name of one of the Apostles of Christ.

[Armatus]

http://i.imgur.com/09zr3g2.jpg

My surname originated somewhere in this area and simply means: the one that lives on a hill.

[Peikko]

http://i.imgur.com/09zr3g2.jpg

My surname originated somewhere in this area and simply means: the one that lives on a hill.
Hillbilly?

[Peyrol]

My mom's surname is typical lombard and it's of germanic origin (from the longobard word for ''military camp''); my surname is pan-galloromance with variants in France (Both ''Oil'' and ''Oc'') and Catalonia.

Here geographical diffusion of my surname in Italy and US:

http://imageshack.us/a/img28/4499/cognomeitaliausa.png

[Kiyant]

My surname is a typical Turkish surname but my clan name was a name only found in the north-eastern regions

[Armatus]

Hillbilly?

Sure ,farming since 5000 BC on that hill. I hope that my ancestors got atleast some woman from somewhere else...

[armenianbodyhair]

I don't it its very common and I think it is region specific. There are theories about its origins some are more likely than others.

[Skerdilaid]

Ancient Macedonian

[Caismeachd]

Mine comes from gaelic.

[Smaug]

I have two surnames, I wont reveal them, but one is British and the other North Italian. I can reveal the other surnames of my family:

British:

Secret Surname, from Aberdeen - English/Lowland
Gordon - from Laurencekirk - Scots
Strachan - from Aberdeen, Scots
McRory, from Bute - Gaelic
McElroy, from Galway - Gaelic
McDonald - from the Highlands, Gaelic
McNaught - from Lothian, Gaelic
Stephenson, from Yorkshire - English
Mure - from Kilmarnock, Gaelic
Morrison - from Inverness - Scots
Randolph - from Dumfries, Scots
Erskine - from Renfrewshire, Brythonic, Scots
Gwyn - from The Gower - Welsh
Cumming - from Badenoch, Norman
McFergus - from Wigtow, Galloway
McLochlan - from Wigtow, Galloway
Gruffudd - from Swansea - Welsh

Italian

Secret surname, from Veneto - Gaulish-Venetian
Barracchi, from Rome - Central Italian
Segato, from Veneto - Venetian
Morini, from Veneto - Venetian
Martini, from Calabria - Calabrese

Portuguese:

Souza, from Braga, Minho - Northern Portuguese

[Windischer]

most surnames in my family are slovjak and rusyn. they are found in both ethnic groups and its really hard to be certain with their origins, as surnames in both languages tend to share common traits (although rusyns borrowed heavily from slovjaks)

[Peyrol]

I have two surnames, I wont reveal them, but one is British and the other North Italian. I can reveal the other surnames of family:

British:

Secret Surname, from Aberdeen - English/Lowland
McLeod, from the Outer Hebrides - Gaelic
Stephenson, from Yorkshire - English
Morrison, from Inverness - Scots
Gwyn, from The Gower - Welsh
Gruffudd, from Swansea - Welsh

Italian

Secret surname, from Veneto - Gaulish-Venetian
Barracchi, from Rome - Central Italian
Segato, from Veneto - Venetian
Morini, from Veneto - Venetian
Martini, from Calabria - Calabrese

Portuguese:

Souza, from Braga, Minho - Northern Portuguese

Martini isn't calabrese, it's centro-northern.

http://www.gens.info/lib/cog/maps/cognomi/M/MARTINI.gif

[Corvus]

Germanised Slavic name

[OldWayGuy]

My surname is related to religion I know the progenitor of our family was a priest or something like this...

[Mikula]

Mostly Czech, some German (in both, original and Czechized versions) and Polish

[Smaug]

Martini isn't calabrese, it's centro-northern.

http://www.gens.info/lib/cog/maps/cognomi/M/MARTINI.gif

Interesting! But I know this ancestor of mine was Calabrese, perhaps he was a descendant of Norther migrants.

[Peyrol]

My mom's surname is typical lombard and it's of germanic origin (from the longobard word for ''military camp''); my surname is pan-galloromance with variants in France (Both ''Oil'' and ''Oc'') and Catalonia.

Here geographical diffusion of my surname in Italy and US:

http://imageshack.us/a/img28/4499/cognomeitaliausa.png



I found this map of my surname in Europe.


It definitely doesn't exist in Catalunya as i wrote before.



http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/97/ff33.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/34/ff33.png/)

[Rudel]

Martini isn't calabrese, it's centro-northern.
Yep, it's probably one of the most common names among the descendants of Italian migrants here (and they were all from the Northern half of Italy).

All the names in my family are French, and most trace back as far as I known to Latin etymons (except for some oddballs like the Bretons names or those that ultimately come from very remote Germanic words, which is very common for patronyms).

[Peyrol]

Interesting! But I know this ancestor of mine was Calabrese, perhaps he was a descendant of Norther migrants.

Maybe this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardia_Piemontese

[Smaug]

Maybe this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardia_Piemontese

Ohh!! I am Piedmontese!!! Nice!!

The only ancestor I don't know the town of origin is this, I just know he arrived in Brazil from Calabria.

[Ianus]

My surname is from Veneto, but the etymology come from an ancient iranic word

[Peyrol]

Ohh!! I am Piedmontese!!! Nice!!

The only ancestor I don't know the town of origin is this, I just know he arrived in Brazil from Calabria.

Yeah, so probabily was from Guardia Piemontese.

There weren't only occitan ''bourels'' valadois (from Cuneo, southern Piemont)...there were even people from the ''other side'' of Cotian Alpes, so occitans from Val Roja and Dauphinèe.
They were all valdesians if i remember well.

[Smaug]

Yeah, so probabily was from Guardia Piemontese.

There weren't only occitan ''bourels'' valadois (from Cuneo, southern Piemont)...there were even people from the ''other side'' of Cotian Alpes, so occitans from Val Roja and Dauphinèe.
They were all valdesians if i remember well.

Yes, and taking a look at your map the main part of Calabria where "Martini" appears is in Guardia Piedmontese. So they were from Northern Piedmont?

[1stLightHorse]

My surname means "Big Balls", as my brawd Uhtred can attest to.

[Leadchucker]

Germanic then English being first recorded in Norfolk around 1186 during the reign of King Henry II.

[Peyrol]

Yes, and taking a look at your map the main part of Calabria where "Martini" appears is in Guardia Piedmontese. So they were from Northern Piedmont?

Valadas occitanas, Torino and Cuneo provinces:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_Valleys

[Smaug]

Valadas occitanas, Torino and Cuneo provinces:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_Valleys

Will you accept me in your tribe?

[Peyrol]

Will you accept me in your tribe?

Obviously yes.

Welcome:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdq9IfY9ESA


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaJEpA_IODE

[Burkean]

Obviously yes.

Welcome:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdq9IfY9ESA


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaJEpA_IODE

I've listened the songs and now I also want to be an Occitan))

[Didriksson]

German

[Peyrol]

I've listened the songs and now I also want to be an Occitan))

A dying culture unfortunately :(

[Comte Arnau]

If I count up to 16 surnames, most of the closest are Catalan, two are Basque, one from Upper Aragon, one from Occitania, and one from Western Iberia.

Hence why I call my ancestry 'Pyrenean'.

[Armando Esteban Quito]

Spanish (Armendáriz; of Basque origin): patronymic from the Basque personal name Armendari or Armentari, from Latin armentarius ‘herdsman’.
Spanish and French variant of Armendaritze, a habitational name from a village in Low Navarre named Armendaritze. The place name is commonly said to be composed of the elements ar(ri) ‘rock’ + mend(i) ‘mountain’ + aritz ‘oak’. However, this is probably a folk etymology; the place name is more likely the same as the patronymic surname, except that -itz here is to be interpreted as a locative suffix: ‘Armendari’s place’ or perhaps ‘herdsman’s place’.

[paksaltopam]

My last name is the anglicized version of the Danish name which also happens to be the Swedish version.

[Smaug]

Venetian, Gaelic, Brythonic, Anglo-Saxon and Iberian, but I carry only too, an Anglo-Saxon and an Italo-Gaulish.

[Burkean]

A dying culture unfortunately :(

Yes, republican centralism made his work( If I am not mistaken, regional cultures and languages are publically stimulated in France, but this has no great effect.

[Óttar]

Turner. (My surname from my maternal grandfather) English. Meaning one who works with wood. Related to Wheeler (a wheel turns, making wood in earlier times) related to French le Torneau.

Some other surnames from my maternal line: Bostwick (English. Anglo-Saxon), Farnsworth (English. Some who migrated to French Canada became Farnoeuf), Romaine (French. From il Romano, Italian. a name often adopted by someone who had studied in Rome) Huguenots had passed through France, and then the Netherlands, to England and on to America. Brundage (~Brundish, Welsh), Meekins (English. ~ Makin, Macon (French? Macon - Mason ???)

Paternal line: Hughes (English, Welsh, Irish), Dunn (Irish), Meehan (Irish) Collier (French "coal-miner", Irish), Meyer (German. "Merchant" or "Peasant"), Klein (German. "Small")

[JohnSmith]

I have italian surnames which are Germanic,Albanian and Greek in origin.

[Catkin]

One is an Anglo-Saxon patronymic surname. The other apparently is most likely derived from old Norse, though it could also come from Anglo-Saxon. The earliest recorded use of it is in the 1200s in north-east England, and the guy then had the same first name as my grandad with this surname. :)

[Pjeter Pan]

My last name was my great great great great great great great great great great...etc grandpas first name. I don't know if it has a meaning.

[Peyrol]

Yes, republican centralism made his work( If I am not mistaken, regional cultures and languages are publically stimulated in France, but this has no great effect.

Not at all...for example last years Corsica voted for the co-officiality of corsican with french, and many (mainland) french politicians said that ''french must be the official language of the republic, in all the departments''.

Corsican is indeed an interesting language...it's probabily the romance language closest to standard italian (tuscan)...i can understand 99,9% of the spoken and written words


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwNNbOKR8Hw&feature=kp

[Shah-Jehan]

Surnames in my family are mostly of Arabic, Sanskrit or Persian origin.

[Comte Arnau]

Yes, republican centralism made his work( If I am not mistaken, regional cultures and languages are publically stimulated in France, but this has no great effect.

Publically stimulated? Lol. They're even unconstitutional. France is the Western country that has killed its linguistic diversity the most, in the name of a Republican unity that downgraded the languages other than French to the level of patois, to the point that most of their speakers really believed to be speaking a 'corrupted French'.

Funnily enough, they have now a different map of linguistic diversity... with languages that are not native to the country.

[Tacitus]

I have italian surnames which are Germanic,Albanian and Greek in origin.

I'm kinda curious to hear the Albanian one, as my main surname might be of Albanian origin too (its root is Greek though).

[Stimpy]

They're Norse/Scandinavian/Germanic in origin I guess. Pretty much only patronymic names that were frozen during the 19th and 20th century when the government decided it was too hard to keep track of everyone.
Just some of the ones I know of in my family:
Svensson
Olofsson
Erlandsson
Assarson
Andersson
Petterson
Eriksson

Most people still use patronymic naming system though, just that they put them as middle name instead of last name. My name for example is [Name] Assarson [Lastname] since my fathers name is Assar.

[Tacitus]

My mother's maiden name is a contracted form of a given name introduced to Italy by the Normans.

[Oneeye]

My surname is partially Anglicized and "High Dutch" in origin. It's an uncommon name likely for a common profession.

Here is the distribution of it by its original spelling back in Europe.


http://i1065.photobucket.com/albums/u399/hammer1115/europenamedist_zpsdc345ea2.png (http://s1065.photobucket.com/user/hammer1115/media/europenamedist_zpsdc345ea2.png.html)

I didn't know there was a district in Austria were it is actually pretty common, but from I've found so far, the oldest records with this surname in Germany were from Hessen. Given that the earliest my direct male lineage is documented is a marriage certificate at a German American Lutheran church in 1800, and my ancestor was of the appropriate age, I speculate that it may have been brought over by a Hessian mercenary.



Here is the "relative distribution" for the original name.


http://i1065.photobucket.com/albums/u399/hammer1115/relativedistribution_zps4cb52ef9.png (http://s1065.photobucket.com/user/hammer1115/media/relativedistribution_zps4cb52ef9.png.html)

[Oneeye]

They're Norse/Scandinavian/Germanic in origin I guess. Pretty much only patronymic names that were frozen during the 19th and 20th century when the government decided it was too hard to keep track of everyone.
Just some of the ones I know of in my family:
Svensson
Olofsson
Erlandsson
Assarson
Andersson
Petterson
Eriksson

Most people still use patronymic naming system though, just that they put them as middle name instead of last name. My name for example is [Name] Assarson [Lastname] since my fathers name is Assar.



I have my father's name as my middle, and he has his father's, and so forth. We don't have the "son" added to the end, of course. I'd like to continue on with that naming tradition but so far only have daughters.

[Peyrol]

My surname is quite atypical as distibution in the USA...usually, italian surnames are very common in New England states, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas and in the West Coast...but my surname is more common in Louisiana...i'll definitely do some researches about this.



My mom's surname is typical lombard and it's of germanic origin (from the longobard word for ''military camp''); my surname is pan-galloromance with variants in France (Both ''Oil'' and ''Oc'') and Catalonia.

Here geographical diffusion of my surname in Italy and US:

http://imageshack.us/a/img28/4499/cognomeitaliausa.png

[portusaus]

My surname is an old English term for a profession, that is traced back to Yorkshire. I know of a few more English names, one typical Scottish and one Irish name, and the rest are Portuguese.

[Hong Key]

8 great-grand parents
British Isles surnames have various possible origins.
So I got 5 British Isle surnames, 2 Nordic and 1 French

Welsh/south central England
Irish

Swedish - Anglo spelling
Irish/North England

English/Scottish
French

Norwegian
Irish may have English origin

[La Misse]

My surname has a meaning in a non-Albanian language, it's because one of my ancestors were a solider/fighter at that country during the Ottoman Occupation, he killed the enemy of a king/very rich person and he got gold and the surnames as a honor. He went back in Albania, his children went to Kosovo, Montenegro and South Albania. But is Albanianzated with the ''AI'' in the end.

[Seraph of the End]

Some of the surnames in my family were (I'm not gonna say my own though):
Samardžija
Žabić
Naglić
Serdar
Mihaljević
My paternal grandparents had the same surname, and also my grandfather's parents both had that same surname. They weren't directly related, as far as I know. I know it's originally from Montenegro. There's this story that our ancestors were actually Popović but one of them got into a serious conflict with his family so he left them and started our branch of the family (if I can say it that way), and one part of them came to Bosnia during Ottomans rule. And Popović family was 'part' of the Kuča tribe or something like that. Maybe some members from Balkan know what I'm talking about. Anyway, I don't believe in those stories, since they're just that, stories. :p

[Shah-Jehan]

Some of the surnames in my family were (I'm not gonna say my own though):
Samardžija
Žabić
Naglić
Serdar
Mihaljević
My paternal grandparents had the same surname, and also my grandfather's parents both had that same surname. They weren't directly related, as far as I know. I know it's originally from Montenegro. There's this story that our ancestors were actually Popović but one of them got into a serious conflict with his family so he left them and started our branch of the family (if I can say it that way), and one part of them came to Bosnia during Ottomans rule. And Popović family was 'part' of the Kuča tribe or something like that. Maybe some members from Balkan know what I'm talking about. Anyway, I don't believe in those stories, since they're just that, stories. :p
What does Serdar mean in Serbian?

[Kiyant]

Both the surname of my father and my mother are Turkic

[Seraph of the End]

What does Serdar mean in Serbian?

I don't think we have that word in everyday use today. It was a word used for an officer's rank in Dalmatia, that's in Croatia. (People who fought for Republic of Venice against Turks had that rank. That's what I heard at least). Why do you ask? xD

[Stimpy]

I have my father's name as my middle, and he has his father's, and so forth. We don't have the "son" added to the end, of course. I'd like to continue on with that naming tradition but so far only have daughters.
Here we just add 'daughter' after their fathers name. My moms middle name for example is Larsdotter = Lars daughter.

[Leo Iscariot]

All are of Spanish origin except for one. My grandpa's surname, Perdomo, is the Spanish transliteration of the French surname Prud'homme.

[Peyrol]

All are of Spanish origin except for one. My grandpa's surname, Perdomo, is the Spanish transliteration of the French surname Prud'homme.

It's both the catalan and piemontese translitteration of this surname.

http://www.gens.info/lib/cog/maps/cognomi-prov/P/PERDOMO.gif

[roro4721]

All my family names are Armenian:

Muradian - ian/yan is equivalent to son. So it's basically Son of Murad. Murad is the Turkish/Arabic word for desire or wish.

Simonian- Simon is just a biblical name.

Mkhitarian- Fully Armenian name. I think my mother once told me Mkhitar is someone who comforts and consoles

Thomassian- Another biblical name.

Avedessian- Fully Armenian. Avedess means good news.

Kasparian- Another biblical/Christian name.

Garabedian- Garabed is just an Armenian name.

These are all the family surnames I can remember, I think I got as far as my great-grandparents.

[Shah-Jehan]

I don't think we have that word in everyday use today. It was a word used for an officer's rank in Dalmatia, that's in Croatia. (People who fought for Republic of Venice against Turks had that rank. That's what I heard at least). Why do you ask? xD
Interesting, because it is an Indo-Iranian word as well and roughly means Chieftain/leader etc.

[Seraph of the End]

Interesting, because it is an Indo-Iranian word as well and roughly means Chieftain/leader etc.

I didn't know that. It's cool :biggrin, haha.

[Peyrol]

I didn't know that. It's cool :biggrin, haha.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdar_%28Ottoman_rank%29

[Stefan_Dusan]

Progovac is greek origin from Progon meaning ancestor. You have legacy of this in english names in words like progenitor. The family legend is that our progenitor Milosh, had many sons as well as many alliances, and somehow each son would end up with a different surname at modern times.

Since I have been doing this on 23andMe I have list of many surnames both paternal and maternal I list the ones here:

Paternal:
Vukosav, Vukovic, Vukosic, Vukasinovic, Vukicevic, Djordjevic, Radovanovic, Radojkovic

Maternal:

Vukajlovic, Vujovic, Vulanovic, Njanjini, Deronjic, Spajin, Apic, Barjaca, Cicin, Popovic, Latinkic

Actually many more on maternal because on her tree everyone is recorded while on my father only men. I tried my best to include only names that went into my blood but her tree is very confused.

[JohnSmith]

My Tuscan surname Banchi, please do confuse with Bianchi.
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=45463&d=1394754749
45463

[Borna]

Croatian side - Bašlinović - one of the oldest recorded Šokac surnames in these regions. Origin is Military District of Slavonia, dates back to 1625.
German side - Hornung - Originates in Kirchberg, Tyrol, firstly mentioned in year 1406. They came here as pre-colonist wave of Volksdeutsche population from the German Alps.

[Germaniac]

My surname is a toponym and was originated in Franconia. It's from feudal nobility origin.

[Dani Cutie]

Castillians,Frenchs,Galicians,Catalans,Andalusians ,Basques and maybe Irish and Germans.

[Dani Cutie]

Progovac is greek origin from Progon meaning ancestor. You have legacy of this in english names in words like progenitor. The family legend is that our progenitor Milosh, had many sons as well as many alliances, and somehow each son would end up with a different surname at modern times.

Since I have been doing this on 23andMe I have list of many surnames both paternal and maternal I list the ones here:

Paternal:
Vukosav, Vukovic, Vukosic, Vukasinovic, Vukicevic, Djordjevic, Radovanovic, Radojkovic

Maternal:

Vukajlovic, Vujovic, Vulanovic, Njanjini, Deronjic, Spajin, Apic, Barjaca, Cicin, Popovic, Latinkic

Actually many more on maternal because on her tree everyone is recorded while on my father only men. I tried my best to include only names that went into my blood but her tree is very confused.
Possible spanish ancestry?

[Ryujin]

modern Turkish.

[StevenTylerAerosmith]

What are the origin of your family surnames?
Don't feel pressured to share the surnames if you think it compromises your privacy. I am only sharing the ones that will not immediately compromise my family's privacy of course.

My own last name has variations throughout south-central Italy; mine is the Sicilian version but there are versions of it in Calabria, and throughout other parts of Italy with various suffixes corresponding to region. It's probably in some way or another of Latin root.

My paternal grandfather's mother's surname is Lipari, which is a place name in Messina. Lipari in Sicily was named Lypàra by ancient poet Callimachus, and today you find men with the surname Liparis and women with the corresponding spelling, Lipari, in Greece (final S gets dropped for women).

My great grandmother on my paternal grandmother's side, hers was Costanzo, which has variations in southern Italy (Constanza being the other common one) and in Greece (Constantinou, Constantinopoulos, etc.) so what it might have been before, we'll never know. It's a common root in Italian and Balkan languages, you even see people in the Balkan Slavic countries with surnames like Konstantinov.

On my Portuguese side you have all of the typical Portuguese and Cape Verdean surnames -- Marques, Tavares, Teixeira, Gomes, etc. Most of these are also common in Brazil as well, and have a uniform distribution throughout Portugal.

On my Polish side, many of the surnames have been Anglicized in one way or another, but not all.

do u have pereira/perry ancestors?

joe perry aerosmith guitarist comes from madeira and is originally pereira

[nittionia]

nvm

[Crimson Winds]

I have two surnames, one is Turkish other is Circassian. One means grandson other means grouchy.

[Alexandro]

My first (paternal) last name is of Galician origin, and my second (maternal) is Basque.

There are also people with Portuguese and French surnames such as Pereira and Dubois on my maternal side, and Italian (Corsican) on my paternal side like Bonini. I always wondered about those surnames, and through genealogical research I found out that I'm the descendant of Azorean Portuguese and Southern French that settled in the Canary Islands on my maternal side, and I am 1/16th Corsican from some insane fucker who decided to leave that beautiful island for middle of buttfuck nowhere Castilla la Nueva on my paternal side xD

[Rethel]

Surname: Germanic.
Cognomen: Slavic.

But there is some possibility that surname is of romanic origin.

[Faklon]

Father-Latin, uncommon even in Latin countries
Mother-Greek
PGrandmother-Turkish word for outlaws combined with adopted Latin word
MGrandmother-Greek
PGGrandmother-Greek
MGGrandmother-Latin, Italic with greek suffix

[Arūnas]

^^ Hi Παπαϊωάννου, how is going?

[Faklon]

^^ Hi Παπαϊωάννου, how is going?

One of them is Γιαννόπουλος, the rest are not stereotypical.

My actual surname is two syllabes.

[Smaug]

My mother’s family name is Scottish of Anglo-Saxon origin and my father’s family
name is North Italian of Gaulish origin.

[Gallop]

The earliest documentation attesting to the change /f /> /h/ or the complete loss of /f/ in historic Castile (including La Rioja) is from the 9th century.

Since the 11th century, the number of apparitions has increased, not only in Castile, but also in other territories.pudo could have been carried out much earlier in oral form.

[Creoda]

Parents
-Gaelic Irish patronymic
-English toponymic, Anglo-Saxon origin

Grandparents
-English occupational, Norman French origin
-English medieval derivative of a given name

Great Grandparents
-Gaelic Irish patronymic
-Welsh derivative of a given name
-English toponymic, Anglo-Saxon/Germanic origin
-English toponymic, Anglo-Saxon origin

[Ellethwyn]

My paternal surname is of Spanish and Portuguese origin.
My maternal surname is of English Anglo-Saxon origin.

[ChepniQizilbash6129]

My surname means "-from Turkic Land" which is located in central asia (you can see from the image below). It is used in all Turkic lanuages.


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[Hithaeglir]

Latin origin for both of my parents. :) The rest of the family has a mix of both Greek and Latin origin surnames.

[Beowulf]

Spanish, Latin, Germanic, Estonian(?), Italian, basque, French, Norwegian not in any specific order

[Jingle Bell]

Portuguese & Galician

[nittionia]

My dad's is German and my mom's is Swedish

[Katarzyna]

Baltic origin from Old Prussian

[Benyzero]

Hungarian, czech, and german surnames

[CordedWhelp]

German, Danish, Polish names for the most part...an AJ ancestor with a German surname (but which has become more associated by this point with Jews verses ethnic Germans) and an Irish ancestor with a very Gaelic surname.

[CosmoLady]

Swedish (including generic Germanic from Sweden), Dutch, French (Occitan) for my adopted family,
I don't know my biological parents

[Etelfrido]

As I've already said, they have Portuguese, Italian and German origins, though I didn't inherit any Portuguese surname.
Among the Portuguese ones in my family there are some that have Germanic roots.

[CosmoLady]

As I've already said, they have Portuguese, Italian and German origins, though I didn't inherit any Portuguese surname.
Among the Portuguese ones in my family there are some that have Germanic roots.
That's interesting, I have a few Brazilian friends and they all have German or Italian surnames

[Etelfrido]

That's interesting, I have a few Brazilian friends and they all have German or Italian surnames
Do you know where they are from? German and Italian surnames are common in the South, São Paulo also has lots of people with Italian surnames and they aren't unheard of in Rio de Janeiro either.

[Oghuz]

Paternal surname is of Tribal Turkic origin, belonging to these people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qizilbash

[CosmoLady]

Do you know where they are from? German and Italian surnames are common in the South, São Paulo also has lots of people with Italian surnames and they aren't unheard of in Rio de Janeiro either.
The three German or Italian Brazilians that I knew were all from Rio de Janeiro,
and the Brazilian American (mixed German and Italian) was from Miami Beach,
and her family was from Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro, I forgot.
They are all urban or suburban types, but I don't know for how many generations.

Yes, I heard that the southernmost part of Brazil is the most functional and European part! :)

[Victor]

My surname is Russian/Polish/Slavic linguistic origin, with a root word "coldness".

[Melkiirs]

There is a great variety: Germanic (German, Yiddish, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch), Slavic (Polish), Baltic (Lithuanian), Celtic (Irish, Scots Gaelic), Semitic (Hebrew)

[Etelfrido]

The three German or Italian Brazilians that I knew were all from Rio de Janeiro,
and the Brazilian American (mixed German and Italian) was from Miami Beach,
and her family was from Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro, I forgot.
They are all urban or suburban types, but I don't know for how many generations.

Yes, I heard that the southernmost part of Brazil is the most functional and European part! :)
Despite Rio not having received many recent immigrants as São Paulo and the South, and São Paulo having received mostly Italians, they also attracted people from all over for being the most important cities in the country.