How did people actually get their surnames? I understand that many were just patronymic or reflected a trade, but when did they adopt these and how? Were they asked one day by a bureaucrat what their names was and they just went with something?>What’s your name?>Uh John … uh… Cockburn?Then they just kept it until today because some asshole made it up on the spot?
>>15104866Cockburn was some town and people from there just started naming themselves that. >t. google pro
>>15104866Jew surnames are cool. They just started naming themselves after gold, silver, jewels, etc.
>>15104890I figure it came from something like that, but why and how did they choose that instead of King, Gold, Silver, etc like >>15104898
>>15104866X son/daughter of Y
>>15104866good question. I think about this a lot.
>>15104983Yeah, I think they call these "ornamental" surnames. The Yids were dressing themselves up with flashy bullshit and demigod claims waaaayyyy before the American nog was. My mother's family has a pretty cool ornamental name.
>>15105001Okay, but when and why did they choose to be X-son. It must have been something like:>well, me dah was named Chad, so I guess me surname is Chadson.But why that if his granddah was Steve? It must have just been when he was asked, but when and why and how were those things going down?
>>15105021My family has a pretty decent one too. This isn’t it, but I wonder which cheeky bastard in the past just decided>oh yeah, my name? Well, it’s John King of course.I feel like those guys, who weren’t Jews, must have had some balls.
>>15105094>John KingCould be that in the "old country" his name would've been something like John Kreeneg, but when he came to the new world he Ellis Island'd his name to something more suitable to the Anglo-American.
>>15105106That’s definitely possible for some. In my family at least, that wasn’t the case and I know that bastard came from England and picked something almost as neat (I won’t say what it is). Meanwhile there’s people walking around with surnames like Cheater, Cockbrun, Smith, and Cochran.
Guide on kike surnames: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4825070/jewish/10-Keys-to-Understanding-Many-Ashkenazi-Surnames.htm
>>15104866>Mfw my last name is literally just a pastry>Like not a profession related to pastries>It's just the name of an actual pastry Italians eat. But in diminutive form. It's literally just donuts.I guess my ancestor was just a town baker or some shit. It's not the weirdest one I've found though. I know a guy whose name is literally Pulido (Polished in spanish)Oh and also when I was in school I knew this Fat kid named pineapple.But if you are asking for names like delatour, de la Torre, Darcy, a lot of those were jus aristocratic names filtered down.Beware of town names in your surnames though. Very big chance I might be part jew because of that.>Here's hoping the namesake of my grandmother's father was just a dumbass and not actually a jew.
>>15104866I think in most cultures people began using surnames before the government started registering them. By the late middle ages populations were large enough that people needed a way to distinguish each other because it's not clear which one of the 50 Johns you're talking about. Only I'm not sure when these last names became permanent. There was probably a time when they would change often, perhaps even with every generation.>>15104898Those surnames were created by Austrian officials in the 1780s and assigned randomly. Some Jews chose their surname by paying a bribe, but this wasn't the rule.
>>15104866I wish it was based on trade cuz then i'd be "Slaughter" or "Butcher" which is based af
