What's the nationality of your surname?

[mvd]

I advise you not to post your actual surname. My surname/last name is French. Though I'm really mostly British Isles and Italian. I have some Hugonaut heritage, and the name stuck.

[KitchenWitch]

1. Slovak

my maiden surname is Irish

[deadparrot]

2. Very, very German.

People ALWAYS mispronounce it. I'm mostly German, but with some Irish, Swiss, and Belgian thrown in.

[radfringe]

132. german

and italian on my mom's side

[ZombieNixon]

3. Same as the nationality of my first name.

Indian (as in from India, not Columbus' Indians)

[grace0418]

92. self-delete

wrong place

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. My married is Scottish my maiden is Italian

I hyphenated. Let me tell you, it doesn't roll off your tongue with ease. :P

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

127. My surname is Scottish nt

[WritingIsMyReligion]

159. You are wicked.

I love it!

:rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Both my married name, and my maiden name......

are English! But I have Irish, Scottish, German, French and Swede blood in my veins too.....

[XemaSab]

6. Scots-Irish!!!!

REPRESENT!!!!!! :headbang:

[billyskank]

101. I've just realised

I don't actually know what your surname is.

[Katherine Brengle]

7. Welsh.

[SeattleGirl]

8. Celtic

[EFerrari]

9. Maiden name, German, married name Italian, my given names

are Spanish, French and English.

Heinz 57 here. :)

[BikeWriter]

10. My surname is a derivative of Easthope, a peaceful place in Britain.

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Welsh

Or a part of England over that way, anyway. It means "People of the bog." :blush:

[REP]

41. Ancient Welsh

Ieuan is the root word; my brother's first name is another derivative of it (Evan) but one part of the surname was Scot-ified; the other part is a very old name for the vernal equinox.

[Lady Effingbroke]

12. English.

100% blue-blooded royalty. of course.

[tuvor]

13. Norwegian

[Skittles]

27. same

:)

[Cobalt Violet]

57. Same. First name too.

But there are a lot of Irish and English with the name as well.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

84. Norwegian as well

In fact, my entire name (first, middle, last) is Norwegian.

Of course, I am from Minnesota, so Scandinavian names are hardly unusual. Moving back here, I was surprised how many Norwegian names there are among the members of my Episcopal parish.

[Kathleen04]

148. My first name is Norwegian

in fact, I use my middle name online, 1st name is too uncommon..

Surname...I'm actually unsure. It's simple though, I'm guessing English.

[NMMNG]

14. German

And people frequently mispronounce it even though it is the surname of a famous TV star who also did at least one movie.

[Radio_Lady]

15. Maiden name is English, married surname is MADE UP from a

Russian name, which my husband wanted to change. We changed the name legally in 1973 to something easier to spell and pronounce.

I use my maiden name in all professional ventures.

Funny thing is that neither name really reflects our heritage. We are both Jewish by birth, but prefer the inclusive doctrines of Unitarian-Universalist faith, if any at all.

Husband was born in Massachusetts is of Russian and Roumanian heritaget (His father and family were driven out of Russian by the "pogroms" and his mother was born in Brooklyn, NY.)

I was born in Pittsburgh, PA, and so were both of my parents. However, my grandparents came from Russia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

We can only go back about four generations with some names. After that, it's lost in antiquity.

[mvd]

17. My mom is a genealogist

She's traced her mother's side of the family and my father's father's side of the family through 12 generations! It's easier to trace the Hugonauts and the English, though. They left a lot of records.

[Radio_Lady]

25. Most Jews just made it to England or another port -- by the skin of their

teeth. My husband's father left from Southhampton. My grandmother was a two-year-old and I don't remember the name of the ship or where it embarked from.

Not many records at all. My aunt (mother's sister) did manage to get to Prague to see where her father had lived. He came as a teenager and not with his family. Not sure if he even used his real name. There were two prominent names in my mother's family, one Czech and one German, if I'm not mistaken.

[u4ic]

16. Ukrainian n/t

[Nicole]

18. Dutch n/t

[jpgray]

19. I'd never post my actual surname

:eyes:

[Mr. McD]

20. Highland Scot

I am Scottish, Irish, and German mostly some English ancestry also.

[mvd]

23. I know I have Scottish and English

Some of them later went to Ireland.

[Ptah]

21. German

[flamingyouth]

22. Swedish.

[IChing]

24. It's Irish but with a Scotish accent. But basically American

It is 300 years of inter breeding in America is my
heritage.

really it is

The prince of wales, the future king of England, holds part of our Scottish title

But we lost that over
260 years ago.

No kings here.
even of the realm of this place.

I am just an
American

[Heidi]

26. Hyphenated last name.

German-Italian. :)

[realisticphish]

28. French/Belgian

ends in "ex" so it kind of narrows it down

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

29. Irish, both maiden and married..n/t

[datsafact]

30. Black Dutch

[flygal]

118. ok, have to ask because it IS the lounge

Is that a Blazing Saddles reference?

[flygal]

119. Danish

[Jamastiene]

31. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's British/English.

My grandmother's name is Tuscarora indian. I wish my name was less, how shall I put this, ridicule worthy.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

32. Indian.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

33. Irish...

apparently, from the northwest portion of the republic...not that northern Ireland mess.

[khashka]

34. Ok. let's get complicated here

Mine is German. German Jews - can you see where this is going?

My actual ancestry is is mostly Welsh, Irish, Black and Native American and Jewish.. But I'm the perfect Aryan stereotype. If you go back far enough, I'm a mongrel. Thank the gods! Most of my family came to America a long time ago. Some of my family came to America to escape the Holocaust.


See, the cool thing about being a mongrel - I can't hate any one without hating myself. And I have a rich heritage. Btu my surname is german.

Khash.

[Boojatta]

88. Next you'll say it's impossible for someone to hate his or her parents!

See, the cool thing about being a mongrel - I can't hate any one without hating myself.

Can't you hate Jeffrey Dahmer? (Any cannibal serial killers in the family tree?)

[khashka]

160. I meant groups not individuals

But come to think of it, I don't really hate any individuals, either. I get very very angry at some people. But people like Dahmer.... no I can't hate him. Angry and disgusted, yes. But hate? Mostly I just feel pity. How sad that someone can become so twisted that they set their internal demons loose on innocents......

As for your question... the only cannibal serial killer in my family I know of is me. I've eaten many unborn babies.

Khash.

(OK that last sentence was vile - Khash channeling Crowley and making rather disgusting comments about oral sex. Grow up, Khash, and people will like you better. Sheesh!)

[northofdenali]

35. Maiden name is Irish.

Married is Welsh.

Kept it all in the Celtic family, I did!

C'mon guys, kick this one for me, hmmm? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4853003
I haven't started a new post in months and I really need the ego trip! :loveya:

[HEyHEY]

36. British, and now Irish...Oddly

We ran to the Ireland when them protestant buggers were persecuting our catholic asses

[TheMightyFavog]

37. German

Although the translation of the word possibly implies Gypsy heritage.

[MrSlayer]

38. German. n/t

[njdemocrat106]

39. Irish

I'm half-Irish and half-Polish, however.

[Guava Jelly]

40. My surname didnt exist until my family came to america

it is believed that it was either schaublin schieble
but was morphed into shively in the new country.
but it is of german origin

[TheBaldyMan]

42. Scottish

although back in the dark ages the patronymic line is Angle (ca. 6-7th Century)

[Road Scholar]

54. Ditto on the ancient Scottish. nt

[dolo amber]

56. Aye...me three

[Road Scholar]

60. Aye, Langen, Logan

[no name no slogan]

95. Hae ya seen the Wikipedia, en Scots?

http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_leid

[TheBaldyMan]

115. the scots language society has a mental website

http://www.lallans.co.uk

or should that be a dippet wabsite

[ariesgem]

43. My last name is

scottish although I'm African American.

[LaurenG]

44. Both of my parents have surnames

derived from Scotland. Therein lies the secret to an interesting family history.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

45. Ellis- Island- Ish.

:hi:

[Xipe Totec]

46. Asturian

No, not Austrian, Asturian; from Asturias, a province of northern Spain.

[LostinVA]

47. Sicilian

[Lumily]

48. Irish.

[laylah]

49. Maiden name

German, married name generic but originally was Jewish until WWII for obvious reasons.

[Spider Jerusalem]

50. English...

as is most of my ancestry (the majority of my ancestors being part of the first wave of immigration to what were then the colonies, pre-1700). I also have Irish, German, Welsh, Scots and Dutch ancestors, but most of them seem to've been English.

[rug]

51. French

[rbnyc]

141. also French (nt)

[rug]

142. Bon Soir Madame

I'm only 1/8 French though. Great Grandfather Louis went fom Normandy to Quebec to Brooklyn.

[In_The_Wind]

52. My maiden name is Anglo-Saxon.

[lizziegrace]

53. It should be Greek

but for some reason, my 100% Greek grandfather changed it and now it's a german/austrian surname. :shrug: go figure?

[Misunderestimator]

55. Dutch

I changed my surname to something else though in my 20s.

[mainegreen]

58. Swiss/French

[sendero]

59. Scottish...

... and well-recognized as such :)

[eyesroll]

61. It's German-Jewish, although I don't have any known German ancestry.

My ancestors came from Russia and Poland.

[Gormy Cuss]

70. There were German towns in Poland and Russia

Perhaps that's how your family acquired the surname. I researched a friend's ancestry and found they they were from Poland but lived in a German settlement area. They were also Jews who had a German surname.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

85. The Polish and Russian Jews fled east when there was persecution in

Germany during the Middle Ages.

The language of the shtetl, Yiddish, is based on medieval German. That's why so many surnames that are considered typically Jewish translate into meaningful German words.

[samplegirl]

62. British & Irish

[mcar]

63. Irish

[Call Me Wesley]

64. Italian. (nt)

[Ravenseye]

65. Arabic

[gollygee]

66. Maiden name - French. Married name - English.

[two gun sid]

67. Irish, but it was Anglicized from the original.

[Trigger Hippie]

68. French

:)

[Bridget Burke]

69. Irish--slightly anglicized.

Surname maps of Ireland place most of us in Tipperary, but my grandfather was from East Galway. His town was used as Cromwell's HQ while Irish were being moved "To Hell or to Connaught"--perhaps that's how his ancestors got there.

"Burke" is a real name in that branch of the family tree. From the Norman "de Burgos" doncha know! Pretty far removed, from what I know of my family's situation.

[Beware the Beast Man]

71. English.

I have a pretty common, WASP-y last name, though I am mostly of Eastern European descent.

[RetroLounge]

72. German.

RL

[Bossy Monkey]

73. Misspelled Swiss-German n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

74. Sicilian

It's quite unambiguously roman in origin and southern italian in derivation.
The Professor

[purr]

75. german

my maiden is serbian/slovak.

[Radio_Guy]

76. Scottish

Though I have been accused of having a "Scotch" surname. :)

[1gobluedem]

77. Scottish -- same name as a city in Scotland

But I won't say which one.

[justabob]

78. Irish nt

[Lavender Brown]

79. Italian

[SiobhanClancy]

80. Irish!

as are all the surnames in my family:)

[purji]

81. My maiden name is French

My married name is English,but I am mostly German and Hungarian. :shrug:

[riona]

82. italian

[Burma Jones]

83. Scottish

Although there's much English there too....My father's ancestors had to leave because of Oliver Cromwell .

[bigwillq]

86. Italian (nt)

[DanCa]

87. My names original pronunciation is Sitehammer

It got changed to Caithamer (Kay-the-mere) when my grandpa George played for the white sox in order to make it sound more American. You can check George Caithamer and white sox for more information on this.

[catmandu57]

89. Scottish

Very old Scottish.

Our tartan.

[El Fuego]

90. Finnish.

[atomic-fly]

91. Scotch

[Benfea]

93. Norwegian. -NT

[grace0418]

94. Greek, although the shortened version my grandfather made up

is actually a French word. Oddly enough, most people think I'm Latino.

[lizziegrace]

121. My grandfather did the same thing

before he married, Papoo shortened his name and now it's a German/Austrian surname. Not Greek at all!

[no name no slogan]

96. Czech (Bohemian to be exact)

Although I am as much border country Scottish/English as I am Slavic. I'm also Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German and Slovak. A little of this, a little of that, a little of the other.

[fishnfla]

105. another bohunk here

family name goes back to the 14th century. Chods, guarded the border in the Bohemian Forest

[no name no slogan]

154. That forrest ain't going to guard itself, that's for sure

I wish my lineage was as noble. We were merely poor rock-farmers on some of the most infertile land in central Europe. Which is also why we're now in this country, too. :D

[azmouse]

97. My maiden name is German.

My married name sounds French but my husband's grandparents came from Poland. :shrug:

[miss_american_pie]

98. both married and maiden are German

But my ancestry is German, Slovak, Polish, Croatian, English, and Swiss.

[scarlet_owl]

99. My married name is German, my maiden names were

Spanish and English.

[hedgehog]

100. Hard to say - the name is German, but the pronunciation is French

My husband's family came from Alsace. My husband would like to go back and look up his roots some day, but as near as we can make out, the area his family came from was scoured pretty throughly in both World war I and World War II so I don't think there's any family left there to be found.

[huskerlaw]

102. Very German

but I'm also Irish, English and Danish.

[LibertyLover]

103. Anglicized Celtic

with some help from the US Immigration Services in Boston about 140 years ago when my grandfather came over from Ireland.

[nickinSTL]

104. Anglicized German

you can still tell it used to be German, but I guess it was a little hard for English-speakers to pronounce.

[malmapus]

106. French, got changed a bit on Ellis Island

But origin is French

[I Have A Dream]

107. I made my surname up and had my name legally changed. n/t

[AlCzervik]

108. Russian Jew.

[City Lights]

109. Maiden name German, married name German. n/t

[Momgonepostal]

110. French, married name is Anglo-Saxon nt

[sakabatou]

111. Israeli

[Left_Winger]

112. English

[rene moon]

113. Mexican

And I see that I am the only one one so far!

Viva la raza!

[fleabert]

128. viva la raza hermana!

sista by marriage at least, I am as white as they come. :-)

[seemunkee]

114. Ellis Island

Got changed from one Swedish name to another and no one knows the history of why.

[sg_]

116. It is...

"Exclusively an Ulster surname it is a variant of *********, the prefix *** being substituted for *** and the * aspirated,giving *** **************. It occured in the Tyrone Hearth Money Rolls of 1664 . It is now numerous and is located mainly in Co. Antrim."

:thumbsup:

[Bridget Burke]

167. Formerly Mag Thoirdhealbhaigh?

(Google knows all & tells all!)

[leftofthedial]

117. Murkan, you commie liburl

[mvd]

124. LOL

Some of the ignorant RWers would say I have a Freedom name.

[leftofthedial]

135. Mine is German-ish

[MrScorpio]

120. English

Vurrah English

[supernova]

122. English or Scots

Not sure which.

[jane_pippin]

123. Polish

[fleabert]

125. origin may be Celtic, principally from Santander, Surname Origin: Spanish

from http://genealogy.about.com/library/surnames/bl_meaning.htm

[TroubleMan]

126. Lithuanian

nt

[geniph]

129. Ellis-Island-type Anglicization!

(originally Irish, Anglicized upon immigrating here, during the "no Irish need apply" era)

[Bucky]

130. American

My patrilinear ascent is American as far as they eye can pierce

[KamaAina]

131. Austrian

I ran into a fellow in NYC once who told me it was quite common in Salzburg.

So, should I move to Collie-four-knee-ya? :-)

[DemonGoddess]

133. Spanish, via the Philippines

my hubby's last name is Anglicized German

[arwalden]

134. One Of The Most Ancient Anglo-Saxon Names From Britain...

... or so this site would have me believe. But I kinda think they're just hyping it up a little bit so that I'll buy one of their Coat-Of-Arms printouts.


http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp/s.Walden/Origin.EN/sId./qx/coatofarms_details.htm

[yvr girl]

136. English but if you trace it back far enough

it was Viking then French morphed into English.

[Nikia]

137. English

I took my husband's last name. He is adopted. His adoptive father who has that last name got it when he was adopted by his step father.

[FarLeftRage]

138. Italian

I am a second generation Italian-American with some French, Irish, Scotch-English and German/Dutch thrown in for good measure.

[salin]

139. german

anglosized in the US; first name - Scandanavian - closer roots.

[Xithras]

140. Anglicized German. n/t

[JitterbugPerfume]

143. German

Ziglar is very very German

[Ava]

144. Scotland

i wish i had my mom's last name. my mom recently traced back our ancestry far enough to find out we are direct decendants of Charlemagne. He is my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, so on and so on, grandfather.

[NJ Democrats]

145. Mine is German

I'm Jewish and also have Russian, Polish and Latvian blood (that I know of).
I'm about 50% Russian 45% German and 5% other nationalities

[BlueStorm]

146. Italian... it's my father's surname

[Matilda]

147. German.

Although my principal heritage is English/Scottish.

[Swede]

149. Swedish.

nt

[blue neen]

150. Maiden name--German

Married name--Irish. Mother's maiden name--Swedish. My given name--French.

[bumblebee1]

151. My maiden and married names are both German.

I'm British from my mother's side of the family. My grandmother came over from England after WWI. She married my grandfather in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, I never had the chance to meet her as she died three weeks before my mother graduated from high school.

[pokerfan]

152. die Deutschen

[VOX]

153. Scottish. And if it's nae Scot, it's crap! :>) n/t

[mikeytherat]

155. Really, really French

mikey_the_rat

[BrotherBuzz]

156. Swiss

[SteppingRazor]

157. Irish...

Heck, my brother's first and middle names are Sean Patrick, if that gives you any idea of how Irish my family is. On my dad's side, my father is the first generation in this country. On my mom's, the fourth. And with a single Scotch/English exception, every one of my ancestors traces back to the Auld Sod.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

158. Sco'ish.

(Scottish)

;) ;)

The first name is Italian, and the middle name, English.

[maveric]

161. Irish, but mistaken for French.

Lenane. It was changed during the Ellis Island experience from O'Lennon.

[Bridget Burke]

168. My Irish surname can be mistaken for Arabic or Farsi...

I've had people ask if my father was Egyptian or Lebanese. And I got a mass-mailing last year, instructing me how to compute my contribution for Ramadan.

[LiberalEsto]

162. Estonian

I kept my maiden name. Husband's is German, though he's more Irish than German.

[Kerrytravelers]

163. Both me and Mr kt are mixed Scottish and Irish- 50/50 on both sides.

We both know a bit of our family history. I also know what Klan (Scottish thing) my family is from- the same one as William Wallace.

[Orsino]

164. Scottishy, I think.

There's an "official" tartan and everything, though I'm not sure what that might prove about the name's origin.

[Bassic]

165. I'm french-canadian, but my surname is english (though it came from a

scotsman)

[AngryAmish]

166. Donkey Irish