Surname Meanings and Origins What is yours?

[ConcernedParent]

This list has a strong euro-centric bias. I refuse to participate.

 

[Rambo]

Not listed.

My Indian name is "one who has *********"

 

[Teacher]

Mine isn't on the list either, but it's northern German/Dutch and refers to a fisherman or fishmonger. By the way, I generally dislike seafood of any kind.

 

[Andrew V.]

I think mine means "from the hedge" in Dutch.

 

[imatlas]

My surname, which is Hungarian, means either 'silk merchant' or 'Son of Attila' depending on who you ask.

 

[imatlas]

Originally Posted by NewYorkRanger

My last name is Italian for "Redhill" or "Red Head".

My mother's, although they're 100% Italian, is Spanish "Dondiego". So back in the 1500s when our family "appears" in the records of the mountain town in Basilicata we're from, we were either Spanish landlords or Spanish Jews hiding from the Inquisition.

Testarossa?

 

[javyn]

"son of walter".


LAMEEEEEE haha

 

[mordecai]

santorum

 

[imatlas]

Originally Posted by mharwitt

santorum
Ewww.

 

[Davidko19]

not on the list, but its polish so you Im sure its something regal

 

[JLibourel]

Quite seriously, my name is medieval French and means "the hangman" or "executioner." In modern French it would be "Le Bourreau."

 

[Pantisocrat]

^ bad-ass

 

[merkur]

..

 

[DrMoBueno]

Italian

"tinker"

Not on the list, but I already knew anyhow.

 

[Master Milano]

african for big penis