where can i find a website that i can find out what my last name means, and like what language it is (like french, italian or what, i dunno) thanx if you help me
2006-12-13 05:42:56 · 12 answers · asked by babyboo_17 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
http://www.last-names.net/
2006-12-13 05:44:13 · answer #1 · answered by KYLE 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is like a barcode. The greater variety of products you have the longer must your codes be. Humans at first had only one name of one syllable which, as populations grew became two or more syllables. Further population growth lead to the rise of the last name. Now, not only do we have last names, we have increasingly complex first and last names. When is the last time you heard of a newborn being named Jane? Or Ralph. These names do not allow humans to effectively identify each other with enough precision. So we have names like Shantilla, Britney, Courtney. We also see a rise of double-barreled last names such as Rodham-Clinton.
2006-12-13 13:49:37 · answer #2 · answered by Gibaudrac D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's heritage.In older times,many people were named for the jobs they performed ,many immigrants changed their named to avoid deportation and some just chose their own and then the passing down began.Latin Americans keep the name off the last name of the father and of the mother.For example : Jorge Valencia Garcia,
Valencia would be the fathers last named and Garcia would be the mother. A child born Maria would be Maria Valencia Garcia until she married and took the last name of her husbands father.Try MyHeritage.com.
2006-12-13 13:50:26 · answer #3 · answered by Boriqua P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did a lot of research on our english last name and found it means village by a lake. Just do a lot of looking around on the internet. English last names are often the name of a town or place.
2006-12-13 13:45:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just do a search on "last name meanings" and several sites should pop up. You can try the one I listed below.
2006-12-13 13:45:55 · answer #5 · answered by SteveN 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many websites to research your surname or last name origin. I am posting you a link that lists many of them.
2006-12-13 13:46:58 · answer #6 · answered by Janine E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try using a Yahoo! search. Search input: last name
2006-12-13 13:45:12 · answer #7 · answered by Underlined name. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a lot of sites for this purpose. Here is a short sample list:
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/Fact.aspx?&fid=10&fn=&ln=
http://www.last-names.net/
http://www.searchforancestors.com/surnames/origin/
2006-12-13 13:46:48 · answer #8 · answered by blapath 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it represents people with the same last name and how u were brought up..
2006-12-13 13:45:45 · answer #9 · answered by ms taurus 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry, but I can't help it:
"...and like what language it is..."
Like, totally!!
Like, Oh my gawd!!
Seriously, kids, you can say "like" all you want, but when you start typing it into sentences it's even more annoying. So... um, like, jeesh.
2006-12-13 13:48:26 · answer #10 · answered by SHERINA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try here if not a lot of genealogy webpages give definitions
http://www.ancestry.com/?o_xid=21860&o_lid=21860&o_xt=8911
2006-12-13 13:46:59 · answer #11 · answered by ~*cRaCkNeSs*~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋