last name origins?

Question

is there any websites that you can find out what origin your last name is from?

Answer 1

http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx?ln=

That doesn't always help you trace your own origins, though. To take an extreme example, you could be 15/16ths Chinese or Cherokee or Irish and have a German surname.

You could be German, Hungarian or French and have an English last name, too; lots of immigrants changed theirs so people could spell it.

Answer 2

If you are of Irish, German, English, French, Italian, or Jewish descent, (seeing that you are blonde, I would assume this to be correct) you can find out the origins of your last name at the following websites:

http://www.last-names.net/
http://www.searchforancestors.com/surnames/origin/

Answer 3

I don't but i wonder about some last names because they sound like misspell words.

Answer 4

try typing in geneology and going to the one that says Family names geneology book