The Origin of your Surname

[someonenotyou]

My surname is Hungarian and fairly common. My mother's is Zoltai, I never could figure out the meaning of it is. My great parents changed their surname to Zoltai from Elbert after WW2 when my grandfather was still a kid.

[Universe]

Occupational surname, a person who works with leathers and shoes. This profession does not exist nowadays. It is not particularly common or uncommon in Hungary.

[Beowulf]

im spanish so i use two surnames


paternal:Aragón the oldest paternal members of my family were from there


Maternal: French, a variant of a very common surname in there Durand i have a variant of it

[Jingle Bell]

3 surnames from N. Portugal and 1 from South which can have Serfadi origin

[Beowulf]

3 surnames from N. Portugal and 1 from South which can have Serfadi origin

You don't have a big Genealogical tree?

[Eurafricanid]

I have two surnames.
Paternal: is of Galician/Northern Portuguese origin.
Maternal: is of broad Portuguese origin, but also highly adopted by ex-slaves, which, I think, is where I got it from.

[Victor]

Russian surname of Hellenic origin (not related to Greek ancestry by maternal grandma, just a concidence).

[Jingle Bell]

You don't have a big Genealogical tree?

Not a rly big, i can back just 6 generations ago and i have some informations of ancient ancestors

Im working in that, but its hard find anything when in slavery times, i can just find information abt my white ancestors

The only rly ancient thing i know its i descend from some Aragonese Fidalgos who came to Brazil in ~16 CE by my maternal grandma surname and what others distant parents said, my grandma got a strange spanish surname so was kinda easy know its was not from colonial Galician-Portugueses

[axel.aleman]

Castillean traduction of Catalán Alemany surname
And probably inherited of Canarian Islander migrant

[Beowulf]

Not a rly big, i can back just 6 generations ago and i have some informations of ancient ancestors

Im working in that, but its hard find anything when in slavery times, i can just find information abt my white ancestors

The only rly ancient thing i know its i descend from some Aragonese Fidalgos who came to Brazil in ~16 CE by my maternal grandma surname and what others distant parents said, my grandma got a strange spanish surname so was kinda easy know its was not from colonial Galician-Portugueses

that's very cool the conexion i have with Aragon is with my paternal side and there are a lot of foreigners and aragonese mixed