The Origin of your Surname

[Fred]

Hmm, they're quite different, at least from my perspective they are. Speech, mannerisms, even outlook. Edinburgh is aesthetically beautiful, Glasgow is not, it's quite an ugly city, terrible skyline views.

Sure. This is what I illustrated.

I love Italy and all things about it; it is my favourite country, favourite food, archaeology, history, music, literature, style, architecture, language, and of course, religion. Italy is like my spiritual home, so I would certainly welcome any link. But it's unconfirmed due to my GG being adopted and taking the surname Gallagher to replace the more enigmatic Nocca.

I have an adopted GGG too, name changed to Baker, which is an old Massachusetts family. Her daughter looks Mediterranean, but I cannot be sure.

[Poltergeist]

From a personal name.

[Monolith]

Slavic, from a tree.

[Amarantine]

Croatian

[Monolith]

Croatian

What's your last name then? Horvatić?

[ikki]

one pannordic, and spread into netherlands, britain and beyond, without being common... including famous (and infamous) people... evidently had something to do with industrialisation getting started and the iron bridge etc


madmen, women.. crazed inventors, cooks and all around rebels. Industrialists, linked here and there to various marquises etc... like entertaining the spanish marquis who under nappy took hamburg and managed to send the brittish court home without going via nappy et guillotines
And nowadays niggnoggs use a derivative

[W. R.]

My surname is quite rare and I doubt that it can be found somewhere outside Belarus. Most probably the stem of it is a Christian name which is very rare here now. The name may be a variant of prophet Haggai’s name, or a name of one of forty martyrs of Sebaste.

The ending -vič used to be a patronymic suffix, now surnames with this ending are quite common in Belarus as well as, it seems, in some countries of former Yugoslavia.

[Rusalka]

I did a little search on my surname some time ago and it would seem that it phonetically resembles the Polish word for "swamp" (bajoro).

Other hypotheses floating in the air are that it could stem from the Russian "boyar" (In the territory of the Great Duchy of Lithuania "boyar" was a warrior and "bajoras" designated a nobleman - certainly more stately than a simple "swamp", if you ask me) or that it has its origin in a Lithuanian name for a village.

[Grey]

My surname is an Italian derivative of the name Noir (which means I got made fun of a lot in school ). That ancestor moved to Genoa from France (don't know from where) and from there moved to Gibraltar, Spain, and from there joined the European Regiment of the Confederate Army and ended up in New Orleans. There my ancestor, Domingo Negro*****, married a German woman and thereafter their descendants only married other Germans until one a few generations back married a half Acadian and my father who also married an Acadian (who is also part German). My mom also has negligible British ancestry.

So I'm a bit over half German and a bit under half French with an Italian last name. Damn that's complicated. Most other names in my family are of Germanic (Frankish, Norman, German) origin, with some of Breton and some of merely French origin and one of Swiss origin.

[Ulf]

I got my surname from my dad.