2006-07-28 21:30:03 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
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2006-07-28 21:33:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get yr facts right. Try telling that to Steven Spielberg. What actually is a British surname? I know a British guy called Gurdip Singh does that make it a British surname? British surnames come from Europe anyway during the Saxon, Viking invasion. The British royal family are Germans by descent.
2006-07-29 04:46:33 · answer #2 · answered by JasonLee 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Okay. If you call Twoteeth, Hairychin, Takes The Gun, Montana, Stiffarm, Big Spring, Bearstail, Quequesah, Manybears, Spotted Horse and Wapato British surnames then I guess most Americans in my neck o' the woods have them.
2006-07-29 04:50:09 · answer #3 · answered by Hidden .38 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because, the Europeans pretty much founded and settled this country. Don't forget that many early American Colonists were of British descent, The early Americans were actually Europeans that settled in America, then got taxed, and told what to do by England. These early Europeans settlers said "Hey, this idea about England telling us what to do, and when to do it REALLY SUX, lets start our own counrty", A very tough thing to sell, especially when you have no gun powder, and the British have Battleships, who's got bigger balls than us !
2006-07-29 04:39:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I find it hard to believe that MOST Americans have a British surname.
2006-07-29 04:34:59 · answer #5 · answered by survivor 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well Ali, the afro-americans in the US. are carrying their
slave names and a lot of those names are Anglo, my boss
at work is an afro-american but, his last name is portuguese
because his great great great grandfather was put into
slavery by the portuguese, other Slavers were the French,
Spanish, Dutch,Italians,Arabs.
2006-07-29 04:45:28 · answer #6 · answered by watts2ask 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure that the most common surnames are British? According to my opinion they are Jewish from the very beginning - really. Check it up and you will see that's the fact.
2006-07-29 04:56:52 · answer #7 · answered by Robert E. B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have a British last name and that's where my ancestors came from. But I'm not entirely English, I'm a mishmash of other ethnicities too. Not sure why the English last name stuck.....
2006-07-29 04:40:18 · answer #8 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Correct. Bristish, Irish, Scottish and French.
2006-07-29 04:35:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because those pilgrims who came over to settle North America were British.
2006-07-29 04:33:54 · answer #10 · answered by keengrrl76 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
not all of them.their surnames differ.if the surname starts with VAN (and sth after that) you have to do with a hetherland background.and so on.
but actually they have changed their names a lot, it's only a few of them that know exactly where they do come from.
2006-07-29 04:41:52 · answer #11 · answered by shalimar 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋