What is the origin of your surmame/last name?

Scotland is the country of origin for my last name. It's one of many variants of a large, old Highland clan. It may have steeped in Northern Ireland for a century or two before coming to America, I'm not sure. The family is tall though, and said to always have been, I'm the shortest man at 6ft, the shortest man... :lol:

 

Scottish and Welsh primarily. My last name is very very common. It derives from living around the things it actually is made of. Pretty much like your last name being "House" because you live in a house....

 

England & Scottland

 

Irish

 

Chinese clan name.

 

english. very, very english.

 

Southern Italy, from the 4th century, with ancient Greek origins.

 

"A regional name for someone who had migrated from the north, like England or Scandinavia." I share a last name with someone who is very famous and well-known and when I introduce myself to new people, they always ask if there's any relation and I always say yes just to see them fangirl for a good 5 minutes (there is no relation that I know of).

 

It's greek, peloponnesian, not too common but not strange either.

 

My name is Slovak, although with a German spelling. When my great-grandfather came to the US, he settled in Milwaukee, which has a strong German influence, and somewhere along the line the spelling changed a bit. As far as I can tell, his direct descendants are the only people in the US with it.

 

According to that website, both my surnames are Spanish, and others I remember (that "got lost" in my family) are also mostly Spanish, except for two, which are Italian and German (from my mum's side and dad's side respectively).

 

Google says mine is derived from Swedish (?) and the name 'Erik'. And that quite a few people in the South West of England have it, although I can't trace my family there at all. It's not completely uncommon but I've never met anyone with it who's not actually related to me.

 

I dunno...

English or something.

 

Spanish (Castile), Sephardi

 

German. Very, very German.

 

This. And I visited my dad's village in China, where everyone had the same (my) last name, which was cool and sort of weird.

 

Anglo-Irish nobility. My surname is quite rare as are the number of my clan.

Happy days

 

Mine is English and Irish

 

I don't know, Spanish maybe, but I have the most ridiculous combination, my last names translated would literally be "big polished potter" taking it from the context

 

According to Ancestry.com

French: from the Old French oblique case of a Germanic personal name, The surname is also found in England and Ireland, where it is probably a Huguenot importation.