Thread: Odd/Different Family Names

Being a Welshman and while listening in on a local radio show they just so happened to be interviewing an African American professor and an expert on African American surnames, and what he said made things that I always questioned make sense at last, now I have always wondered why the vast majority of African American's have Welsh surnames? such as Williams, Jones, Lewis, Griffiths, Evans, Davies, well the Professor said that these were the most common surnames for African American's simply because a greater number of plantation owners happened to be of Welsh Heritage then it was custom what ever slave you had on the plantation they automatically took the surname of the plantation owners, a simple but interesting fact but this always made me scratch my head wondering why? Mystery solved. PS, my Welsh surname is Pugh, but through the centuries it's been change because at one stage it would have probably looked something like this ap Hugh, the ap means Son, just as Mc in Scottish and O in Irish Gaelic also means Son of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_surnames

Jamie.

I've only got two that are worth adding,My father had a friend whose last name was Gata,not too uncommon,but they named there first daughter Allison,thus making her Ali-Gata, the second had to be proved to my father and myself,My mother was working in a uniform place and told us of two of the most unusual names Ive ever heard. Seems that Hogg is a common name,but there was a client who, with THAT last name named his daughter's, IMA, and Youra.....making them...well you get it,but she (my mother ) copied an invoice or something and showed it to us and as far as we could tell,it was the truth,can you imagine???

Originally Posted by redrover66

someone may have posted this before How Many of Me
But an interesting US site.

While the site does take the time to tell you that it’s not 100% accurate, I find that it’s pretty close!!

Not only does my cousin have the unique name of Audley as his first name, his last name of Kucklick apparently is also unique!!

According to the US Census, there are only 1, 581 people with the first name of Audley, there are only 117 people with the last name of Kucklick!!

They list only (1) Audley Kucklick living in the US!

I can’t wait to tell the family!! !!

My name is Peter Wake

Peter-stone
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Wake-watchful
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careful when honing

B, although your height may be a little intimidating, you are anything but an angry bear - a real gentleman through and through!. Thank you for sharing.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Do dweezel and moonunit zappa count?

I reckon Zomby Woof would be a good name for a dog.

When I was young I worked for the tourism government agency checking guests cards at hotels for statistics. I remember a fellow whose first name was Zoroastro, like Zoroaster. And weirder still was a guy in I saw a publication by the Dominican Republic telephone company. This fellow's name was Hermann Goering González. I was 19 when I saw this. Where did mom and dad get the idea? Really, true.
And then someone told me about a fellow puertorrican who served in the Air Force, and he named his kid Usaf, because he liked the USAF (United States Air Force) in the aircraft wings. Pronounced in spanish it sounds kinda biblical. There have been a few Usmaíls (in spanish also sounds middle eastern, like a second cousin of one of the Three Magi) from the mailboxes.
And another anecdote, I had a woman friend who was a nurse and she said in the hospital she worked the father of a newborn girl asked her wether she thought the name Syphillis would be nice for his daughter because it sounded so pretty. She explained that even though in spanish it sounds almost like the mythological fairy sylphid, is no name for a little girl. So there is no Syphillis Rodríguez, or whatever, thanks to my friend.
My name is Victor, it's neat, roman origin, means winner. And my last name Maldonado which literally means badly given. Does this mean I win unfairly? Not really, it's some spanish knight who quarreled with a french duke a long time ago and challenged him to a duel which would take place in the presence of king Phillip of France. The spanish knight smacked the dude nasty in the head, knocked him off his horse and was going to remove the fellow's head so the french king stopped the joust which the spanish knight protested. They kind of negotiated for the duke's head remaining attached to his body by the king grudgingly granting this knight the use of five fleurs -de- lis in his coat of arms. And his granting them "mal donnés" turned into the spanish name Maldonado.

My middle name is pretty uncommon in most areas of North America and I have had to take out my ID more than once to prove that it really is Metro. It was my fathers name and grand fathers and great grandfather and I have no idea past that. I am lead to believe it is a fairly common name in Eastern Europe.

Not a family name, but my "favorite" first name is La-a. Pronounced "la dash ah."

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

Not a family name, but my "favorite" first name is La-a. Pronounced "la dash ah."

Being from NY, you know that that would'nt even raise an eyebrow,personaly, I like ,Lasanya, I met her no B.S.