A History of Family Names
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A History of First Names: • A History of Names
Family names AKA last names or surnames are important in many cultures to tie us to our our lineage. They are a link back to our ancestors and they are an intriguing glimpse at where our forebears came from and what their lives were like. In most patrilineal societies - which is most societies - children are given the surname of their father’s family. As maternity is always certain while paternity is a little more nebulas this has long been an important way for a father to label his children as his own. And as inheritance most often passed down from father to child so did the family name. But family names did not always exist so where did they come from? And how do they differ among different cultures throughout the world. Let's take a look at the fascinating history of family names.
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Me too lol
Same. ❤️
Haha same
Omg me too!
I feel that
The fact that people added “the fart” after someone’s name just tickles my funny bone
Even funnier his son is called Halfdan the Mild which brings to mind a guy called Dan who’s half as tall as the average man and extremely sensitive and moderate
@@emilybarclay8831 'His name is ''den Gavmilde'', not mild, which is ''the generous'' in English
I wonder how he got his nickname "the fart" too much fiber maybe lol
@@liz2saintvideos I think the word fart actually comes from the word for swift or something like that
@@emilybarclay8831 I'll
Imagine your father's last name being "the great" or something and you get "the fart" I would've just log out of life
lol!!! Thanks for the giggle. ^_^
And then they rename you in death to Johnny Logout
My last name only came about because my great grandfather was getting his mail mixed up with another solider in the same barracks as him. So he changed it. Hahaha Our great family history. 😂
That's crazy. My dad's 2nd last name is Funez!! Not very common.
In the Swedish army in the 1600 to 1800-hundreds there were so many soldiers with the same name that everyone was given an extra "soldier-name" so no one would have the same last name. Then when they stopped with this a lot of soldiers changed their last name to just their soldier-name.
Sadly many medieval family names have not been recorded, I’m sure they were as beautiful as the given names!
Plantagenet was a good medieval one
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@@puffin8252 oh my-
Well I mean Henry is my third cousin so 🙃
My married name (Raeder) is German for “wheel-maker” and is a shorter version of Rademacher. My maiden name (Oakes) is just English for “oaks.”
...is your grandpa a pokemon professor?
@@lrose1310 lmao
Persephone Raeder my name is eijk witch comes from eik thats dutch for oak. Coincident
Wheels made from oak seems like a logical choice also... I understand from the thread this is an ironic humor pointing to a kids game- but also anyone who has tried to work with oak wood vs. pine is like fresh soft bread 🍞 compared to sawing into a 🔨. Lol. I nvr got into the Pokémon craze.. not that I was 💩 on it ( for inevitable triggered trolls) 😬🙄😉
I'm Belgian, and at school (so if this is incorrect, blame my history teachers) we were taught that Napoleon made everyone in the low countries (today's Belgium and The Netherlands) get family names.
However, the people from The (then) Netherlands didn't think the concept was going to stick, so they came up with the most ridiculous names (Spring in 't Veld = Jump in the field, Deneuker = the f*cker, etc). But because the people Napoleon sent to write them all down didn't actually speak their language, they didn't understand they weren't taking it serious, and just wrote it all down.
It would even be so that one person would make up a name, like , and the next person in line would say 'the same', meaning the same last name because they were related, but the administrator would then just write down 'the same' as the last name.
Maybe they just didn't care.
Is THAT the name you want to go by? All right. It's your funeral.
Also from Belgium, and indeed, I got the same explanation! When I was younger, I always thought I must be from the “Netherlands” descent, as it is a pretty ridiculous last name, that’s also a word in Dutch. But after some research, I got to discover I was wrong. Apparently the word had a completely different meaning back then, and is my last name actually an ode to a honorable position in the army. It’s funny now I looked up how that position is called in English, and it basically reveals my last name, just written a bit differently, but both have the same pronunciation.
thank you for the mention of my country’ history (vietnam), now i knew the reason of the nguyen domination
I'm not Vietnamese but I have been curious about this too.
Hi, I have a question, do you know the history of the Annam people? I'm from the carribean but one of my ancestors is from those people.
I would like to know more about them if you know something
Yep, I have two neighbours. Both Nguyen, both unrelated. Vietnam has such an interesting history, especially the names are an interesting part.
My family name is Klos, short for Klosett wich is toilet in German so I really won in this category
I feel you, mine is Kloh, which also means toilet in German lol Lucky me I don't live there (but my sister does and people haven't said anything to her face so far).
...I was playing a game called Crusader King 3 the other day and gave some poor Scandinavian ruler the word Toilet as a last name, but...I didn't know toilet was an actual last name in some areas... O.O
LMAOOO
I am so sorry for your last name! In other news, my brother needs that last name because he lives on the toilet lol 😆
mine is old German and means warrior as it refers to a class of people that were spear throwers. sry for yours. lol
Some freed slaves changes their last names to that of the traid they learned as a way of aeporating themselves from their former masters. It was a way of defining themselves by something they saw as theirs. Their skills, no matter how they learned it, was something no one could take from them.
Or they changed their last names to that of a president's last name, hence why you often see people of African-American descent with surnames like Washington, Jefferson, and Jackson.
Wow
Upon emancipation, some also took the name "Freedman" or "Freeman" to break ties with the name of the people who kidnapped them.
Or they changed it to that bc it was all they knew. Don't be cringe.
According to my grandmother, when my family came to Brazil, they changed our last name from “Sisti” (which is Italian) to “Siste”, to turn it more similar to Brazilian names.
When my great-great-grandparents came to Brazil, Brazilians changed their surnames. from Pajünk to Pagung and from Gabrecht to Gabret. Its a little sad, but I still love my surnames (besides it's already difficult for people to understand with changed surnames, imagine the old ones!)
7:33 that's actually the other way around. In Spain you pass on the middle name (the first surname), which is (usually, but not necessarily), the father's middle name. So the usual structure is [First name] + [Father's first surname] + [Mother's first surname]. The model described in the video is actually the Portuguese one.
I really like our Iberian systems. We have both our mother's and father's surnames. Both are represented on their children's names. That's lovely.
Thank you!! When I watch that part I also realized she was wrong!
Same in Dominican Republic
In Puerto Rico people use two last names your father and your mother in that order so my name is Gabriela Sabel Rivera Crespo and everyone has it like this
That's so interesting! I'm curious as to how it works when you have children of your own? Like which of the two names do you chose ?😁
Your mom and dad also have two last names so there paternal last name becomes your paternal and maternal last name so my mom last name is Crespo Centeno and my dad is Rivera Rodriguez so when you're signing the birth certificate you put there first last name which becomes your paternal and maternal last names I hope with this you can understand better 😁
In Brazil, we also usually have two surnames, one from the mother one from the father. But the most traditional order is first the mother's and then the father's and it doesn't have to be only one from each.
For instance, my full name is Isabel Alencar de Alcantara Vieira. Alencar is from my mother, Alcantara and Vieira are from my father ("de" is a preposition that means "of" or "from").
The surname that is passed to the child is normally the parent's last surname, but it can be the first. My great-grandfather, Cícero Alencar e Souza, passed to his children his first surname.
Exactly. I think It's the same in all spanish speaking countries.
We have a Name and sometimes a middle name. Then, our father's family name and lastly our mother's family name. Spanish laws now allows us to choose if we prefer to use the mother's family name first insted of the father's one.
Lastly, in Spain women never adopt their husband's family name, we kept our own 😊
@@Crimsonisaddicted I said Puerto Rico cause I wasn't really sure but I have seen that it's like that in Latin America but cause I'm Puerto Rican I was 100%
Rodriguez, the son of Rodrigo. So I have an ancestor whose name was Rodrigo from Spain
Then I guess that means that I'm son of Diego, because mine is Díaz.
Same with Gutierrez so I’m son of Gutier (Walter from Visigothic Tribes that rampaged through the Roman Province of Hispania) 🤣🤣
@@Coochie_Cuttah same
Mine means friend of god 👁👄👁
Rodrigo means “famous ruler” (from Germanic “hruod” = fame + “rihhi” = rich/powerful/ruler/mighty)
Im so happy that in Spain we get our father but also our mother family name :) As a funfact the law changed a few years ago and now the fathers name doesn't have to be in first place always, parents can choose the order and if they do not agree the family names go in alphabetical order. This change helps to preserve less common family names :)
Rex is Latin for King. Roy is from Anglo -Norman England, the name derived from the Norman roy, meaning "king”.
Yes, and the French “roi” which means king.
Rey in Spanish.
As in royal?
Son of the king is fitzroy for England back in a day.
Roy could also be Gaelic for red
Interesting video. My surname (Žunar) means woodpecker in english. My ancestors were foresters, so, since woodpecker is a forest bird, I guess my surname was derived from occupation.
My family name is Abella from the word bee. Basically means beekeepers. Now I'm thinking of getting a bee tattoo just for fun😂.
😂😂😂
My family name Prescott comes from Priests•Cottage
Fun Linguistic Fact: The -ez/-es ending of Spanish names is actually related to the possessive case of English, as in "the dog's tail". This is because these endings in Spanish come from the language of the invading Visigoths in Spain at the time. The Visigoths spoke a Germanic language related to German, Danish, Dutch, and yes, English. (Germanic in this sense does NOT mean just German, but German is one of the members of this group). Anyway, in Spanish, a name like Rodriguez, coming from the Visigothic language, would be analogous to saying Roderick's (offspring) in English today. Martinez = Martin's, Fernandez = Ferdinand's, etc. The connection is actually more obvious if you keep in mind that apostrophe s in modern English used to be -es in an older version of English. For example, lamb's wool, used to be, lambes wool, once upon a time.
Hey! I really want to point out that in Spain we have two last names, not a middle name. Typically, the first one is from our father and the second from our mother, but this is changing now since more mothers want to have their first last name to be the child’s first last name aswell. So, on the video it’s mistaken!
In Chile we do the same! Two last names. Single mothers commonly name their children with their own last names, or sometimes swap them to avoid prejudice.
Our laws also now give parents the option to use either moms or dads last name first, and the other last.
Also I have heard that in Brasil the first last name is always the mothers and the fathers comes second.
And in Chile we traditionally have a first name, middle name (even two or more middle names) and two last names. For example, my name is Isidora Romina Flores Capes, Romina being my middle name. My aunts name is Andrea María Eugenia Capes Berrios, María Eugenia both middle names.
Many people also coloquially use one of their middle names, my aunt uses Eugenia, her third middle name. Compound first name are also very common, like feminine María Something (María Rosario) or masculine Juan Something (Juan Andrés), and that compound name is used officially.
As a last comment, there are people with two or ir three middle names. I know someone whose name is Marta María Victoria Piedad, and she uses Victoria as her common name.
After watching the first one of this series, I couldn't wait to see this second installment! I really love the work u do!
I carry both my mother's maiden surname and my father's surname, but without a hyphen, in a culture heavily influenced by the Spanish. My mother's maiden surname is Marston, an English name derived from "the dwellings near the marsh", and my father's surname is Escamilla, which is a Spanish name meaning "little fish scale"
I once read my last name, Hildebrand, means "(s)he who wields the sword" 💪😁 which I think is pretty neat!
Hild = strife or battle
Brant = fire or sword
I have family with a variation of the same name, so we may be distant cousins of some sort. It seems someone in our ancestry may have had a violent reputation.
@@SuperKatiki it's actually a somewhat common name in Germany! The oldest writing we know of is called Hildebrand song, so it goes waay back!
3:44 "We see examples such as Alfred the Butler" Alfred Pennyworth is time traveler confirmed! XD
My last name is Klaassen, it means "son of Klaas". I have actually found the ancestor who first carried my last name! His fathers name was Klaas Cornelissen (1764-1843) and his son Peter Klaassen (1790-1832). In 1811, Napoleon made all people of the Netherlands choose a last name, if they didn't already have one. So when Peter was 21 he simply chose his fathers name and it was passed down to us!
In the Swedish army in the 1600 to 1800-hundreds there were so many soldiers with the same name that everyone was given an extra "soldier-name". Then when they stopped with this a lot of soldiers changed their last name to just their soldier-name. My great great grandfathers last name was Nilsson, meaning son of Nils (the nowdays 4th most common last name in Sweden) and he changed it to Svärd meaning Sword. Other examples of soldier-names are Modig = Brave, Sköld = Shield and Frisk = Healthy.
My last name is Kok, I'm Dutch and just means 'cook', 3 guesses to where that comes from :)
I can’t decide if this video is brilliant for genealogy, or if I want to throw all of my family trees away.
Why?
This is very interesting! Just one correction, in Spain the mother’s last name is not our middle name. We have two last names, one from the mother and one from the father. Women do not give up their last names when they marry.
my family name Sugg is old english, i believe it means small bird or sparrow. most of the other surnames in my family are old english or old norse.
i’ve seen it spelled “sugma” as well 🤔
Oh I bet the headache of mispronounciations can be tiring, I can empathize- I went from a very English last name & married a Soucie, which is an inevitable & understandable nightmare phonetically ~ it is SUE-SEE, but 🍣 🍱 Sushi is always usually frustratingly tossed out especially in 🇺🇸.
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Very nice job! Extremely informative
Up to the 18th century selected Finnish men were serving in the Swedish military (Finland was a part of Sweden back then). Most men at that time did not have family names, so they were assigned with nick names often based on some quality of their character. These names stuck even after the military service (if they survived it). Even today you see Finnish people carrying a sometimes funny Swedish family name
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This is so informative. Thank you!
Excellent videos about names and time history! I feel like I received such an in-depth education and a whole new appreciation for the things I never thought twice about. Thank you Lindsay!!
Thanks for this video and the others that you have done!!! Really enjoying them!
The place in northern Italy where my family is from is so small and insular, a lot of times people had a second last name since basically everyone in town had one of four last names. For instance, you could be Maria Dalpiaz of the valley or Maria Dalpiaz by the church and stuff like that
My maiden name is Payne. I went back through the generations on FamilySearch and saw the spelling fluctuate between Payne and Paine when a male ancestor came from France to England with William the Conqueror. Given the French word for bread is pain, I assumed they were bakers back then.
my great grandmother my granny, my mother myself and my daughter all share the same middle name Elizabeth as its known as the first born daughters rightful middle name
Thank you Lindsay!💕
Another splendid video x
My grandparents used to have traditional Swedish -sson names, but changed them before my dad was born. they were given a couple of options by
the tax authorities and chose our current one. An interesting way of feeling a connection to my aunts, uncles, and cousins that most other Swedish people lack.
I love you channel keep it up
By the way... the Hebrew for "son of" is BEN not bin (which I think is Arabic).
It is but it’s ibin not Ben
But some spoke Arabic, doing g a study ...
Very interesting..Thank you so much for sharing.
I found this to be so interesting and educational. Thank you for this video. My last name is Montalbano. It means White Mountain in Italian. My family comes from Sicily. There is a city by that name and when you trace the roots of the name it's from Spain originally. Spanish nobility brought it from Spain to Sicily. So I've often wondered if our family took the last name of the town and if so why that last name and not another such as their occupation.
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thanks for another great video lindsay! i learned quite a bit in this one.
My lastname derives from the old English word "Wetherhala", basically means where sheep knelt or rest.
I heard that in France before the revolution people had middle names of saints. My sisters and I have middle names of both saints and relatives. My sister for example has the middle name of Mary both a saint and a great aunt of ours.
Archdeacon is one of the many names that the Normans brought with them when they conquered England in 1066.
Just had a very interesting read about my family name origins. Thanks for the inspiration!!
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Such a fascinating history!
Very good. Seems well informed.
My husband’s middle name is his paternal grandmother’s family name. No one is left to carry on the surname “Kirkland”.
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@@johnbevere690, Costco. ;)
WOW Beautiful Video Great Work
Gosh this is my favorite channel!!! i learn so much wish i would’ve learn all this stuff in school 😕
Good Video!
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Thanks Lindsay xx
i really like this channel a lot, i am intressted in ancient history, and one big mystery i have is where my or my moms last name comes from.
My last name is ghanbarian, and my moms is Khosravi. We've heard that Khosravi is ancient persian for royal, while Ghanbarian can be traced back to the middle ages.
It's why i love this channel so much, it explains so much history in such short time. Keep up with the good content !
My mother decided to keep her last name, because it was so rare.
My middlename comes from my father and my last name from my mother.
I decided to keep my names, when I got married. I had always been use to parents with each their name and didn't want to give up my family names.
Nice comment dear 👍🏼....... Where are you from ?
My name is Naznin Sultana
Naznin means beautiful in arabic😍
And Sultana means princess/ queen👑
So my name means Beautiful princess 👸
I used to work with a Nargis (also spelt "Nargiz"), which I learnt means "daffodil."
Hi! I already commented on your last video about names! In Spain, we don't have middle names. We have first names, which can be composed by more than now name, and two family names. Our mother's family name isn't our middle name, it's our second family name or our first family name, depending on what the parents decide. So, Lola García Fernández and Kiko Fuentes Pérez could name their son Paco García Fuentes or Paco Fuentes García. Traditionally, the father's family name goes first, but parents can choose.
Your videos are super interesting!!
I recently discovered this channel, absolutely love it, and am currently doing extensive research on my family history. Obviously I included my family name in this research, so great timing in this video!
My maiden name is very german sounding as I am Austrian/Czech on my dad's side and Italian on my mom's side.
I find this topic interesting all around, my husband is Chinese, I took his last name, however he often uses it as his first name because people usually butcher his given name 😏😉
love this
I'm Vietnamese-American. Women are not required to take their husbands' family name upon marriage. So in our community, practically all couples have different last names, but their children would take their father's family name. My mom kept her last name, Nguyen, but I share the same last name as my dad, Bui.
Thus is my new favorite channel! My maiden name was DePriest. It was interesting the learn where the De came from.
Me: last name ,polish
Also me:
Isn't polish 😂
Brodeur-Jacobs! Very fancy sounding. Thank you for another lovely video!
Yay time for a new awesome video
Who would dislike Lindsay's videos? What you don't like calming voice educating you?
My surname is Abatangelo, which means "Abbot Angelo" in Italian. It's predominantly found in the area of Italy my grandfather was born. Our guess on the origin is that there was an Abbot named Angelo who didn't consistently practice the celibacy expected of him.
I’m Spanish and I shall stress out that what we do here is (name) (surname1) (surname2). Being 1 the first one of your father and 2 the first of your mother. The mother’s name is NOT the middle name
Ofc some people get two names (which we call compound, not second). Depending on the person, they’ll refer themselves by one/both/a shorten version of them. Eg: Maria Luisa can be called Maria/Luisa/Maria Luisa/Marilu. And also you can have any variant nicknames
My grandfather's surname was originally Weisbrodt (white bread but not a Baker family that I'm aware of) ... by the time he made it to this country in the late 1920s it had become Blank. I was SO glad to be able to change my name easily when I married! On the other side of my family, the story is that my ancestor whose surname was Wagczewski arrived in England to be told "I can't say that surname, where are you from?" And he became Phillip Blashki.
I love this channel! My last name is Sanning which means “truth” in Swedish. My mother’s maiden name is Bauer which means “builder” in German. I’m always honest (to my detriment) and I come from a family of builders. 😬😂
AYE! An upload on my birthday! ^^
In many spanish speaking countries each person has two last name from their parent. Like my father last names is Gutierrez Guerrero and my mother's last names is Parra Navidad. My last name is Gutierrez Parra.
Gutierrez came from Northern Spain which means son of Walter.
Parra came from Southern Spain which means grape vine.
Sooo my last name “pace” was most likely from my slave roots? Delightful
Which originates from 'peace' ... the irony. There was a colonist- planter named Robert Pace in Jamestown VA. I wonder if your surname originates there?
Also, If they were freed by their um..the family that owned them, They would then take that Family's last name. Then if freed because of the Union winning the Civil War thats when they began.
@@erinpearce1080 pace from pax meaning peace
Not only last names but also religion that are forced onto slaves and colonized people.
Yay for Williamson!!
9:40 was not expecting to see the Philippines mentioned but I'm pleasantly surprised~~
I'm a Fry which means Free man. But we also have Hohnke & MacQueer in our lineage.
With the Irish Gaelic names... they're also gendered. From Wikipedia:
"A male's surname generally takes the form Ó/Ua (meaning "descendant") or Mac ("son") followed by the genitive case of a name, as in Ó Dónaill ("descendant of Dónall") or Mac Lochlainn ("son of Lochlann").
A son has the same surname as his father. A female's surname replaces Ó with Ní (reduced from Iníon Uí - "daughter of descendant of") and Mac with Nic (reduced from Iníon Mhic - "daughter of the son of"); in both cases the following name undergoes lenition. However, if the second part of the surname begins with the letter C or G, it is not lenited after Nic. Thus the daughter of a man named Ó Dónaill has the surname Ní Dhónaill; the daughter of a man named Mac Lochlainn has the surname Nic Lochlainn. When anglicised, the name can remain O' or Mac, regardless of gender.
If a woman marries, she may choose to take her husband's surname. In this case, Ó is replaced by Bean Uí ("wife of descendant of") and Mac is replaced by Bean Mhic ("wife of the son of"). In both cases bean may be omitted, in which case the woman uses simply Uí or Mhic. Again, the second part of the surname is lenited (unless it begins with C or G, in which case it is only lenited after Uí). Thus a woman marrying a man named Ó Dónaill may choose to be use Bean Uí Dhónaill (Mrs. O'Donnell in English) or Uí Dhónaill as her surname; a woman marrying a man named Mac Lochlainn may choose to be use Bean Mhic Lochlainn (Mrs. McLaughlin in English) or Mhic Lochlainn as her surname.
If the second part of the surname begins with a vowel, the form Ó attaches an h to it, as in Ó hUiginn (O'Higgins) or Ó hAodha (Hughes). The other forms effect no change: Ní Uiginn, (Bean) Uí Uiginn; Mac Aodha, Nic Aodha, Mhic Aodha, and so forth.
Mag is often used instead of Mac before a vowel or (sometimes) the silent fh. The single female form of "Mag" is "Nig". Ua is an alternative form of Ó."
I find it really fascinating seeing how the history of last names collected itself!!! When I got married I opted to add my husband's name on the end of mine (so now I have four), but not to hyphenate. My mom hyphenated hers and it was always a pain; and my grandmother added her husband's name onto hers, and then when he died her second husband's name onto the total (she has six names total and 3 are surnames)...
Mine was Anglicized from a French name. My great-great grandfather was French-Canadian and his last name was Monton, French word for "mountain". When he came to the US in the early 19th century, he changed it to O'More and eventually the O in the front was moved and became "Moore".
My mother is from the Philippines. Her grandfather was from Spain surnamed Beltran so I use Beltran as a middle name in the Philippines and use Y Beltran as a second surname when I go to the Spanish club. My father's family came from Norway and Denmark. I once found an old document in which the family name is spelled four different ways in the same paragraph. Sometimes they would used "descriptors' like "Storrerusten" Big Rusty for a tall guy with red hair. Often times they would change surnames when they moved. Use the patronymic "Sen" name or the "farm name" or sometimes both. I have an ancestor "Halvorsen Moe." He was the son of Halvor from Moe farm. When I tracked down my cousins in Denmark they had changed their surname as there were too many people with the same name in town. Makes doing a family tree very challenging.
Oh my god..I was always intrigued by these histories 🥺😭😵
She posted this on my birthday last year
My last name means “from the island of skopelus” in Greece even tho technically I’m not Greek lol but I’m sure if you trace us back far enough🤷🏻♀️
I'm not Greek either, but my last name is "Demkin", which in Greek means "The People's friend".
My great great-grandfather was given his mother’s maiden name, Ward, as a middle name (that line is traced back to one of our earliest immigrant ancestors, Andrew Warde). My great-grandfather was given the same first name as his father but a different middle name, so he went by his second name. My grandfather was also given the same first name but a different middle name. My father, however, was named Ward to honor his great-grandfather and great great-grandmother. His middle name is Andrew, which is also a family name. The next six generations after Andrew Warde had a son named Andrew Warde (which eventually dropped the e).
This is one of favoritest channel , more cool name's.
Thanks
Girl ur the first one to explain my last name with such accuracy! Keep up the good work with cross-cultural analysis 😁
Btw Nguyen is pronounced “Gwen“
I've always been curious how to pronounce that name. I kept going Na-gu-yen lol
i thought it was pronounced “when” because i knew someone with that last named and thats how they pronounced it
I think it's pronounced Wen? I have a Vietnamese friend that corrected me once.
I've always heard nwin. I think it has many pronunciations, maybe depending on regions?
I worked with someone who pronounced it noo'-yen. I've heard many pronunciations of that name.
I kind of got obsessed with my lineage for a while. I have two surnames, a Chaves (portuguese for keys) and Bruera (italian for something regarding heath fields). But I also have some spanish, french and german surnames in my family tree. What stroke me as the strangest is a my Gran's grandma having Lujan (a small city in Argentina) as a surname.
In Hungary it is also common to have an adjective-surname. For example: Nagy (which is kinda the most common surname in my country) and it means "big, great". But Kövér (fat), Kis (little), Fekete (black), Fehér (white), Fodor (curl) are also common. What is more, we have "nationality, ethnicity" surnames too: Orosz (Russian), Német (German), Rácz, Oláh, etc.
Names are so interesting! And very informative video, thank you very much!