Have you ever looked up the meaning of your last name and found something interesting?

Question

I found out that mine is meant to do with a town or house which is built/put on an elevation.

And my first name Sarah means Lady or Princess etc and my middle name means The Garden so that makes me...

The Lady/Princess of a garden and house/town which is built/made on a hill.

Lol, found that hilarious and this is the site I used: http://www.searchforancestors.com/

Answer 1

Well, my last name, ''Post'' should be pretty obvious. As for Melchior, one of the three wise men and all. (Biblical story of Jesus' birth)

Post is actually a German name. My family must've come from there a long time ago.

It can mean ''mail'', but was also used for people who lived near a certain landmark or boundary. It's also used in Dutch and Danish.

Answer 2

I highlighted your question by giving it a star. Too often we people hold onto prejudice because it protects us and helps give us a sense, a good sense, of who we are. Our prejudice, often too, makes us feel important. This is something that we need, living in a competitive world.

I hope that most of the top genealogist registered for this forum will give your question a second glance and perhaps comment on your question and/or my answer. Often times, we feel that everything is known and that there is no new knowledge left to uncover. Life and scholarship becomes somewhat stagnant. So, I thought that I would contribute to the pool of knowledge here in the genealogy section. I hope that people don't mind.

Yours,
Zhou and Guo

1. My last name is a Hebrew last name. My family comes from an ancient village in Shinar, also, known as Mesopotamia. The name of this village is Hassuna, a very old settlement about 25 miles south of Calah.
2. If any of you are decent Christian scholars or students of the Bible, you might be familiar with the story of Nimrod. After the flood of Noah arose a mighty hunter, who opposed God. He took his tribal bands up the Tigres River and conscripted people there and built great cities. During that time, the Hebrew race lived in cities like Sephar and Ninevah. This is the Northern part of Iraq and part of what is called, today, the Sunni Triangle.
3. My Hebrew last name of Jo is the shortened or abbreviated form of God's name, Jehovah. We got that last name about four thousand years ago sometime just after the time of Eber and long before Abram.
4. Originally our last name of Joba meant "God to hold" in its original form. Through the ages names and word meanings change. So much of our human past has been lost with time. If you come from a major world civilization, you might, though, find enough records to give you clues as to an ancient past and uncover many things, good things, which will make life and our greater world a much better and more wonderful place in which to live.
5. As my family migrated from Shinar into China, 1900 BC to 1700 BC, our name changed to Jo. In China, it is pronounced as Djou. In the Wades-Giles romanization system, it was romanized as Chou. Zhou in Mandarin, and Chow upon our arrival to America.
6. In China, our family surname means "complete" or circle. Complete is closer to the original Chinese meaning.
7. Though we are true paternal Hebrews, we no longer look Hebrew due to the thousands of years of intermarriage with the Chinese people.

I hope that this helps and if anyone has any questions, please feel free to write.

Zhou and Guo

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Answer 3

My name means: Divine. Mythological ancient Roman divinity Diana was noted for beauty and swiftness; often depicted as a huntress. Also Diana Princess of Wales. *Cool website.

Answer 4

Thomas usually means 'the twin' and my last name, from Scotland, means 'well-bred'. Well. I'm not a twin, and I'm working on the well-bred part. Good manners are vital to a good reputation, and a good reputation is worth more than gold and silver, says the Bible.

Answer 5

My maiden name is a type of cow.
I never had to look it up as I was informed this in front of my entire 7th grade science class.
I never lived it down.

Answer 6

Mine has something with a pagan midwinter festival called JOL ( well something like that) it later became Christmas, strange what we find when we scratch the surface.

Answer 7

My last name is Norwegian, meaning: "the valley on the green side of the hill" (or something very similar).

Answer 8

I know what my first name means but no I've never looked up my last name.