Last name shrinkit7/6/2023 ![]() Each family has to be taken on a case by case basis. For example, surnames were largely adopted between the 11th and 16th centuries in England, between the 16th and 19th centuries in Wales and between the 11th and 19th centuries in Scotland. This change occurred at different periods in different regions. Surnames only arose when families decided they were going to stick to a 'pseudo-surname''. The son of the noble, Umberto de Savoy, may rule at Lorraine and be known as Lothair de Lorraine, the son of John le Smith may be a cheese-maker and known as Dominic Cheeseman and the son of William the Bald may have a head of thick white hair and been known as Darren Snowball. These names were not necessarily hereditary, but were dictated by circumstance. Thus, a noble ruling from Savoy may have been known as Umberto de Savoy, a blacksmith may have been known as John le Smith and a bald man may be known as William the Bald much in the same way we refer to people in similar ways today, such as John the Gob or Rachel the Bean Counter. The earliest surnames in Western Europe grew out of existing methods of distinguishing people. ![]() Hundreds of years later this tells you that someone with the surname, Tailor or Taylor, had a ancestor on their paternal line who practiced that profession. ![]() Thus John 'the tailor', who was son of Peter 'the Bald' and grandson of Henry 'of the green' passed his distinguishing name (Tailor) to his children, even though none of them may have been tailors. Abkhazian Afghan Albanian Algerian American American Samoan Andorran Angolan Anguillan Antiguan and Barbudan Argentine Armenian Aruban Australian Austrian Azerbaijani Bahamian Bahraini Bangladeshi Barbadian Barthélemois Basotho Belarusian Belgian Belizean Beninese Bermudian Bhutanese Bissau-Guinean Bolivian Bosnian and Herzegovinian Botswanan Brazilian Bruneian Bulgarian Burkinabé Burmese Burundian Cabo Verdean Cambodian Cameroonian Canadian Caymanian Central African Chadian Chilean Chinese Colombian Comorian Congolese Congolese Cook Islander Costa Rican Croatian Cuban Cypriot Czech Danish Djiboutian Dominican Dominican Dutch Ecuadorian Egyptian Emirati English Equatorial Guinean Eritrean Estonian Ethiopian Falkland Islander Faroese Fijian Filipino Finnish French French Polynesian Gabonese Gambian Georgian German Ghanaian Gibraltarian Greek Greenlandic Grenadian Guamanian Guatemalan Guinean Guyanese Haitian Honduran Hongkongers Hungarian I-Kiribati Icelandic Indian Indonesian Iranian Iraqi Irish Israeli Italian Ivorian Jamaican Japanese Jerseyman Jordanian Kazakh Kenyan Kittitian or Nevisian Kosovar Kuwaiti Kyrgyz Lao Latvian Lebanese Liberian Libyan Liechtensteiner Lithuanian Luxembourger Macanese Macedonian Malagasy Malawian Malaysian Maldivian Malian Maltese Manx Marshallese Mauritanian Mauritian Mexican Micronesian Moldovan Monacan Mongolian Montenegrin Montserratian Moroccan Mozambican Namibian Nauruan Nepalese New Caledonian New Zealander Nicaraguan Nigerian Nigerien Niuean Norfolk Islander Northern Irish Northern Marianan Norwegian Omani Pakistani Palauan Palestinian Panamanian Papua New Guinean Paraguayan Peruvian Pitcairn Islander Polish Portuguese Puerto Rican Qatari Romanian Russian Rwandan Saint Helenian Saint Lucian Saint Vincentian Saint-Martinoise Saint-Pierrais and Miquelonnais Salvadoran Sammarinese Samoan São Toméan Sarian Saudi Scottish Senegalese Serbian Seychellois Sierra Leonean Singaporean Slovak Slovenian, Slovene Solomon Island Somali South African South Korean South Ossetian South Sudanese Spanish Sri Lankan Sudanese Surinamese Swazi Swedish Swiss Syrian Taiwanese Tajik Tanzanian Thai Timorese Togolese Tongan Transnistrian Trinidadian and Tobagonian Tunisian Turkish Turkish Cypriot Turkmen Turks and Caicos Islander Tuvaluan Ugandan Ukrainian Uruguayan Uzbek Vanuatuan Vatican Venezuelan Vietnamese Virgin Islander Virgin Islander Wallisian and Futunan Welsh Yemeni Zambian Zimbabwean
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