Strange surnames in your family tree

[Erronkari]

Decristofano (neapolitan/south-italian).
Muzzupappa (calabrian/south-italian).
Rivadeneira (galician/NW spanish).
Perera (asturian/North spanish).
Cazenave (of gascon originfrom Mont de Marsan/Aquitaine/SW french).
Foix (Apparently of gascon origin, from Pau, Nouvelle Aquitaine/South french).

[El_Jibaro]

Decristofano (neapolitan/south-italian).
Muzzupappa (calabrian/south-italian).
Rivadeneira (galician/NW spanish).
Perera (asturian/North spanish).
Cazenave (of gascon originfrom Mont de Marsan/Aquitaine/SW french).
Foix (Apparently of gascon origin, from Pau, Nouvelle Aquitaine/South french).

A typical Uruguasho/Argie mix of surname origins there

[zebruh]

Figueira, Ardila for example

I knew a guy that was named Ardila from chile once

[Ellethwyn]

Blaylock

[Rafael Passoni]

Klerkx

[someonenotyou]

I wouldn't say unusual, but I don't know the meaning of Zoltai and Simay.

[Sarin]

This might not have been the case had GB not been synthesized either or not been assigned the name 'Sarin' .

[PAGANE]

Пиърл, Шафранек, Ярковски.

Не знам значението на нито един от тях.
Само произходът му.

Šafránek - from the flower of Crocus sativus, known as "saffron crocus". Saffron has long been the most expensive spice in the world by weight A degree of uncertainty surrounds the origin of the English word "saffron". It might stem from the 12th-century Old French term safran, which comes from the Latin word safranum, from the Arabic za'farān, which comes from the Persian word zarparan meaning "gold strung" (implying either the golden stamens of the flower or the golden color it creates when used as flavor)


Jarkovski- Inherited from Proto-Slavic * jarъkъ. Synonyms of
bright, shiny, glamorous, sparkling, dazzling, glowing, radiant

[Smitty]

Interesting thread. There's quite a few in my tree, but among them:

Ventres (English)
Herrnleben (German, Mr. Life?)
im Wolde (German)
Pinnavaria (Italian)
Scatà (Italian, probably from the Greek skata, literally feces, from what I can find)

[Rafael Passoni]

I have Camacho from my Spanish grandmother side and it sounds oddy here. Terúel I only find in my family too, and more strange is Ross among Spanish people, my aunt's thought it was from Scottish origins, but it seens it is not when I come back to early 1800's.