The Origin of your Surname

[The Blade]

The root of my surname is Hellenic and dates about century and a half ago. However, I don't have actual Greek descent. My paternal great-grandfather and his relatives (R.I.P.) were Bulgarians from the Thessaloniki area.

[HelloGuys]

All my family surnames (Known/registred) are from Spain (Spanish surnames)

[Mixdguy17]

My first one is a very common Spanish surname that can be found throughout all the peninsula but apparently it comes from the basque language, and my second one is Italian but it's very uncommon and cant actually find the origin of it, but its estimated that it might be from the south of the country but yeah the variation of mine cant be found only another one which is also Italian but without one letter than mine

[Luso]

My surname is from Galicia.

[hmaohma78]

First surname is extremely common and the origin is from Spain. My second surname is apparently a combination of castillian plus galician

[Chris596]

I literally don't know anyone else with my family name. I've been also searching for some info about it throughout the years, I didn't find anything.

[Ymyyakhtakh]

Finnish surnames usually consist of a word for a natural formation, plant, or other event or construct of nature, either alone or followed by the suffix -nen or -la/-lä.

My surname consists of just the word for a natural formation without any suffix. The word is thought to be borrowed from either Proto-Norse or Proto-Balto-Slavic.

These were the 32 most common Finnish surnames in my dataset (because I like integer exponents of 2 but I hate the decimal system), along with the meaning of the root part of the name:

Korhonen - proud or upright; elder?
Virtanen - stream
Nieminen - cape
Mäkinen - hill
Mäkelä - hill
Laine - wave
Hämäläinen - Häme
Koskinen - rapids
Järvinen - lake
Lehtonen - grove
Lehtinen - leaf
Heikkinen - patronymic
Saarinen - island
Salminen - strait
Niemi - cape
Salo - forest
Salonen - forest
Heikkilä - patronymic
Heinonen - hay
Jokinen - river
Rantanen - beach
Kinnunen - skinner
Tuominen - bird cherry
Mattila - patronymic
Laitinen - side?
Turunen - city of Turku or marketplace?
Karjalainen - Karelia
Lahtinen - bay
Ahonen - meadow
Ojala - dike
Aaltonen - wave
Leppänen - alder

It would sound cool in English too if someone was called Mike Wavenen or John Beachla or Dave Forest.

[El_Jibaro]

My paternal surname is Galician.

Maternal surname is Basque, from a great-great grandfather born in Álava.

[MandM]

Romance origin surname

[Tutankhamun]

My maternal surname is of Venetian origin

My paternal surname is toponym of an Portuguese-Galician origin