Someone please give a direct reply to this matter which puzzles me?

Question

I am born and live in NY City all my life. I am NOT a transplant. Now it seems that in recent years , I keep seeing, hearing, strange names and strange facial features, unlike anything I am familiar with in NYCity. I mean Justin Timberlake, & Britney Spears - and there are others. Those names, "Timberlake," "Spears" - where are they derived from? What ethnic group, what cultural origin? IN NYC, I have daily seen Hispanics, blacks, Jews, Irish, Italians, Greeks,Syrians, Polish, Russians, & everything under the sun. But about Timberlake, Spears, and others like them, "WHAT ARE THEY REALLY? their faces, & names are an anomaly to me in NY. I don't recall growing up with people like them at all. So can someone give a precise answer about what are these types I mentioned. To which group or ethnicity do they belong? And why are they so popular today? Is it because of their strange exotic ethnicity????

Answer 1

I never heard of them.

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://joshuakane.diaryland.com/older.html
http://www.halfsigma.com/2006/12/robert_steinbuc.html
http://www.behindthename.com/

Origins of Surnames
Surnames are generally derived from one of four sources: the name of the person's father (patronymic), the person's locality, the person's occupation, or a descriptive nickname for the person. When they were created, they answered one of the following questions: Who is this person's father? Where is this person from? What does this person do for a living? What is his or her most prominent feature?

Answer 3

Who??