does anybody know where last name come from?

Question

my last name is Paniagua, is bread and water in english. there a lot wired last name around.

Answer 1

Last names traditionally come from your place of origin or job title used in the family (as it was common for you to not move up or down in your caste). Those without the last names that denote origin or occupation could be related to royal blood (as only the "important" people had last names until it was decreed that everyone must have one) or a transformation to make it "easier" to pronounce if it's a Eastern last name. Transformations were fairly common during the immigration boom to the United States because the people registering families didn't care much for correct spelling and wanted to make it easier on English-speakers to say those "weird foreign names".

Answer 2

There are several basic origins of names. One is place name, e.g. Thomas a Becket or Otto von Bismarck. A, au, von, van, etc. mean of or from. Another is occupation, eg Baker, Smith, Goldsmith, Schmidt,etc. Some occupations are archaic, eg Fletcher (Maker of arrows)or Thatcher (Puts straw roofs on huts). They may be in various languages of course. Another is descriptive. Large, Long (Chang in China), Belle (Beautiful),etc. Your surname is in a Romance language. It is not French. It may be Spanish or Portuguese, but Italian is possible too. I am part-French, and I speak it.

Answer 3

Your ancestors might want to have. can. we are able to purely wager. opportunities a million) Their Syrian surname gave the look of "Tailor". 2) Their Syrian surname meant "tailor" in Syrian. 3) Your immigrant ancestor replaced right into a tailor by commerce. 4) The clerk at Ellis Island replaced into prepared on president Taylor. 5) Your immigrant ancestor had to mix in, so he picked an English-sounding call 6) someone named Taylor befriended your immigrant ancestor, so he chosen that call. 7) not one of the above. in many Islamic international places, human beings purely have one call; they use their father's call too, so that you'll tell which Ahmed you're talking about, besides the undeniable fact that that is not like a surname. Your immigrant ancestors might want to no longer have had a surname.

Answer 4

alot of last names come from jobs people had in the middle ages, e.g. baker or fletcher. so i rechon urs will come from europe somewhere and could have something to do with being a baker.

Answer 5

looks strange, as Spanish language names go. I would find it likely that you hail from South America (Mexico and south of there), and that you might be mestiza by ancestry...

It is likely a name taken by (or given to) a black or Indio based on his occupation (cook, barkeeper?), or just something he found important or sounded cool.