I heard that all the people with the last name Claudio are related. Is that true?

Answer 1

Claudio

Portuguese (Cláudio) and Spanish: from the personal name, Portuguese Cláudio, Spanish Claudio, vernacular forms of Latin Claudius, a Roman family name derived from claudus ‘lame’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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"Lame" here means you broke your ankle and it didn't heal right, not that you wear black socks with tennis shoes.

So, back when they were starting to use last names, a Spaniard or a Portugese who was lame might have been called "Juan Claudio", to distinguish him from Juan the shoemaker or Juan the son of Carlos. (I don't know how you say "Carlson" or "Shoemaker" in Spanish.)

"Juan del Rio" was the Juan who lived by the river.

I'd guess some of them are related and some aren't.

If you go back to Noah or the first band of Homo Erectus to come out of Africa, depending on your religion, we're all related. However, 512th cousin is pretty distant.

Answer 2

The myth that everyone with a certain surname is related is a common one; it is seldom, if ever, true. For one thing, when you consider that people can and do legally change the surname they were born with, and often such changes are to more unusual names, it would be difficult to prove that all individuals with any surname were all related. (Unless a family changed their names to a surname that doesn't otherwise exist - and that wouldn't really count, since it would be an artificial example.)

Since "MrsDebra1966" doesn't say what last name she is referring to, I can't say for certain she is wrong. There are one or two surnames here and there so rare such a claim is correct. However, the general link she provided to Ancestry does not deal with any specific family, and I suspect what she believes is inaccurate.

The rarest surname among my own ancestors is more uncommon than 99% of surnames, and yet I can only be sure that all the people with that name living in a certain region of the US before about 1840 were related. Many people with that name who lived elsewhere, or later, may also be related, but not all.

Claudio is not that uncommon; families with that name come from several different countries, and there is no chance whatsoever that they are all related. (Unless we all spring from a common ancestor, in which case the question is meaningless, since we would all be related.)

Answer 3

Could be! Everyone with the same last name as me are also related.

Answer 4

I don`t know:)
sorry