Uncommon Last Name

[gixajo]

I knew a rich guy which Valois Last Name.
I knew another rich boy that carry the Bourbon surname.
Does it means that they are members of the House of Valois and the royal House of France?

I knew during my military service a soldier whose surname was "Borbón", and as far as I know he had not any link with that royal family.

[gixajo]

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Is Philip VI, in full Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia, king of Spain from 2014, a member of the royal House of France?

There are more Spanish claimants to the throne of France, for example, this one, that is also grand-son of Franco:

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

On the other hand, there is another Bourbon branch, who are claimant of the Spanish crown, the famous "Carlists".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince..._Duke_of_Parma

[Ranger0075]

Exactly. My surname is of German origin and yet my paternal side is Ukrainian. Surnames don't mean anything.

A friend of mine is Romanov, but his family isn't Russian, he says his father is part Polish, which is weird, Romanoviski may be Polish, Romanovych may be Ukrainian, but Romanov?? He isn't Jewish.

[gixajo]

A friend of mine is Romanov, but his family isn't Russian, he says his father is part Polish, which is weird, Romanoviski may be Polish, Romanovych may be Ukrainian, but Romanov?? He isn't Jewish.

Maybe he has Roman ancestry, from Rome, or Roma(ni) ancestry, or Romanian, or simply the father of the person that takes the first time that surname was named Roman...

[Ranger0075]

Maybe he has Roman ancestry, from Rome, or Roma(ni) ancestry, or Romanian, or simply the father of the person that takes the first time that surname was named Roman...

Romanian makes sense, there's some overlap with Russians with their -ov surnames around, then his family probably moved to Poland where they took a ship to Latam. I've seen cases like that...

Ironically he is a communist jajaja, we do jokes but he doesn't care

[Malagueña]

Exactly. My surname is of German origin and yet my paternal side is Ukrainian. Surnames don't mean anything.

It isn't rare to see slavic people with german surnames isn't it?

[Nurzat]

Exactly. My surname is of German origin and yet my paternal side is Ukrainian. Surnames don't mean anything.

not really. in Bukovina there were a lot of German settlers. grandpa could have had real German ancestry. I mean it's one thing to have a last name like "Onion" or "Fir tree" and another thing to have a last name of foreign etymological origin

[Polak]

It's not uncommon with Western Slavs but not too common with Eastern Slavs.

[Polak]

not really. in Bukovina there were a lot of German settlers. grandpa could have had real German ancestry. I mean it's one thing to have a last name like "Onion" or "Fir tree" and another thing to have a last name of foreign etymological origin

My ancestry is from Galicia and Podolia, and if it was real it'd show.