Names linked to niche professions that no longer exist, migration, colloquialisms and even entire families being wiped out during war could contribute to your family name being less common than others. Then again, it could simply be destiny. For instance, if a man with your name only fathered daughters generations ago, their surname most likely ended with them.
However, history does tend to repeat itself and recent trends have seen near-extinct British surnames enjoy a resurgence.
As families whose ancestors left Britain hundreds of years ago return, so too does the family name. The anglicisation of European names has also helped revitalise rare surnames in Britain.
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In fact, names based on appearances are historically common. Professor Richard Coates , the leader of the team of researchers whose findings on surnames were published in the "Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland," has a funny theory about this: "There are … names where the origin describes the original bearer such as Short … though Short may, in fact, be an ironic 'nickname' surname for a tall person.
This Spanish and Portuguese name is found in medieval records in the Latin form Garsea, meaning bear. According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica , it's the most popular surname in the country of Spain and is popular in Spanish-speaking areas; it's the most common name in California and Texas.
In , it was the sixth most popular name in the US, up from 18th in , according to Vice. Patel is not the most common surname in India, meaning that this specific sect of agriculturists was driven from India in droves to find different lives in English-speaking countries. The English version, Miller, is one of the top 10 surnames in America. Dan Nosowitz wrote Atlas Obscura that while Americans can trace their last names to their ancestors' trades, country of origin, and even town of origin, last names are relatively new in Vietnamese culture.
In fact even the name 'Vietnam' comes from the Chinese; 'viet' is the Vietnamese version of the word the Chinese used to describe the people southeast of Yunnan Province. Descriptive surnames are less common, partly as they were often derived from unflattering characteristics such as: stupidity, girth, baldness and sometimes outright insults like Blackinthemouth. Many of these surnames have disappeared.
Matronymic surnames are derived from the name of a female ancestor usually the mother and are uncommon in most parts of the world. Such names may arise due to illegitimate or posthumous births and occur amongst nobility when the mother was higher ranked than her spouse or 'bit on the side'.
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