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Ha! My surname means "was once a pauper" in a language that has since morphed into another language in which my surname doesn't mean anything anymore
Well we have a bunch of surnames after animals where I live. In fact my own one translates to blackbird.
Do you ever get the urge to just start singing in the dead of night?
Not really but my gf keeps asking me why I am sending blackbirds to spy on her.
here in sweden a goodly chunk of surnames are just straight up made up, shit like "nyquist" which even at the time was a hilariously pretentious way to spell "nykvist" and just means "new branch".
My surname means doctor, yeah don't be fooled
My surname translates to the suffering one :(
In a different hemisphere than my ancestors, my surname translates to "Go Fuck Yourself".
Found that out while working in a restaurant staffed by speakers of that language. Thought they were fucking with me but I googled it.
My full name translates to "strict and serious son of a farmer", which describes my dad quite well and me not at all 🤦😂
I mean, let’s hope it was containers.
I love my last name, it translates roughly to "those people over there past the tree"
Would have made moving quite an issue for your ancestors, though 😄
Seriously, also I wonder if there are peoples with the same surname that aren't in my family tree, cause I am sure it's more of a name of a village than a family. Keeping surnames is so weird though, very weird feudal tradition and honestly I think having a unique last name is more interesting in general. My partner changed her name to something unique she's the only one with that surname. I kept mine cause I think it's just so interesting, but part of me wishes I changed it, if not drastically then to the feminine version of the name as the language it's in is gendered.
One of my life goals is living in a house over a hill where the specific tree from my last name is planted.
Related to another popular post right now...so what was Bruce Dickinson's ancestor?
They tailored garments for apes.
'Gaylord'
Town Jester? Threw the best parties?
Isn't Gaylord a first name?
I have read random weird news articles about modern people who have it as a last name, I swear.
Mitch Gaylord was an Olympic Gymnast and bad actor, he invented two techniques, namely the Gaylord Flip and the Gaylord Two.
You hear about that gay Irish couple? Gerald Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzgerald.