A random question, yes, but i was just wondering.
2007-08-09 13:09:48 · 11 answers · asked by Elley 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Last names usually denoted a person's job, especially in Europe. As times have changed, pronunciations have changed, meanings have changed, all sorts of stuff.
For example, when America was bringing people over to Ellis Island, they would have to take names of everyone there. When they couldn't understand a name, they would mispronounce it, misspell it, give them a similar sounding American name, or even just give them random American names to simplify things for themselves.
2007-08-09 13:14:50 · answer #1 · answered by Tom L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The story of Adam and Even is fiction. Last names (surnames) have different origins depending on the country your family originally came from. I have some Swedish in my family...and the last name would be according to the male head of the house hold. Alex=Alexson John=Johnson. In England your surname would apt to be your profession. Baker, Hunter, Parson, Spinner, Miller...etc.
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2007-08-09 13:17:22 · answer #2 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
people didn't start taking last names until thousands of years after adam & eve
2007-08-09 13:14:44 · answer #3 · answered by Matthew 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original names started to go out of fashion silly!
2007-08-09 13:13:00 · answer #4 · answered by hmmmm_maybe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you notice, early in the Bible people had only one name. Later you would see Simon the Tanner, on Straight street. So it follows people got their name from their occupation.
2007-08-09 13:14:05 · answer #5 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well my last name is Gardner...which came from Gardener, and in medieval times if I were alive I would be known as Brian the Gardener...
2007-08-09 13:12:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Last names originated centurys ago by your trade.
If you made swords. You became a swordsmith.
If you made horseshoes you became a blacksmith.
If you worked with wood. you became a carpenter.
If you painted. You became a painter.
If you were intellegent enough to write. You became a writer
ETC. <}:-})
2007-08-09 13:27:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea I think last names just said what peoples' occupations were. Not sure though, good quesiton!
2007-08-09 13:13:49 · answer #8 · answered by freespiritede1986 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have been called Billy the Babbling Fool
2007-08-09 13:13:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
iv got no bloody clue
2007-08-09 13:26:54 · answer #10 · answered by ۩۩۞ღ♥°Love Stoned♥°ღ ۞۩۩ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋