about 10 years

Goto http://www.surnamedb.com/ search for your last name and post details about it here, obviously leaving out any information that's personal (as I'm about to do). I've always been interested in genetics and human ancestry so I thought I'd spread the word around. You may even learn something!

I'll even do my last name first:

"This interesting Olde French Huguenot name, which is also found in America, is a medieval nickname surname 'for one with the expression or characteristics of a small baby!' This is the 20th Century interpretation, however, it would be interesting to know the precise 13th Century meaning - which presumably was complimentary or at least taken as such. The original family fled from France at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685."

about 8 years
Please accept our apologies but this surname has yet to be researched.
about 8 years
Dose no't compute
about 8 years
Doyle is a surname of Irish origin. The name is an Anglicisation of the Irish Ó Dubhghaill /oːˈd̪ˠʊwəlʲ/ [citation needed], meaning "descendant of Dubhghall". The personal name Dubhghall contains the elements dubh "black" + gall "stranger".
over 8 years
Please accept our apologies but this surname has yet to be researched.

not surprised
over 8 years
This ancient name found in the spellings of Forst and Frost, is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and has the unusual distinction of being recorded as a surname as early as 1086 (in the Domesday Book), and also of having retained its original forms through the millenium since. The name derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century "frost or forst", and it is claimed was used as a nickname for one who had white hair or a white beard, or who was of 'frosty' disposition. These are the 'accepted' academic theories amongst those in the ivory towers of education, however logic suggests the opposite. We believe from our experience that 'Frost or Forst' had a quite different meaning, and was a baptismal name applied to one born in the times of frost, generally autumn. It is obvious that the name was considered complimentary, or it would not have survived, and this is confirmed by its paramount position amongst the earliest of all surnames. The very early recordings include Lefstan Frost in the Feudal Documents of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, in 1095, and Gilbert Frost of Warwick in the 1195 pipe rolls. Later examples include John Frost of Cambridge (1626 - 1667), a puritan divine and associate of Oliver Cromwell, and Thomas Frost aged 28 yrs, who was one of the very earliest settlers in the New World Colonies, leaving London on the ship "John" in October 1635 bound for St Christopher in the West Indies. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William Forst, which was dated 1086, in the Domesday Book of Hampshire, during the reign of King William 1, known as "The Conqueror", 1066 - 1087. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
over 8 years
http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Map/Golding

Bright and Gold. Although they missed out the Great pro part.
over 8 years
Please accept our apologies but this surname sounds too nerdy.

True, True
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how did subs pronounce it?!?
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i cant believe ur last name is Caorthannach
deletedover 8 years
as predicted, it's of english/welsh/irish ancestry and pretty much refers to a specific mythical creature :P
over 8 years
http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Prendergast

so this "database" has some bumfuck last name like this, but yet has zero on my name
over 8 years
Please accept our apologies but this surname has yet to be researched.

thanks
deletedover 8 years
We changed our last name once we moved to america so I searched the families original last name.

Please accept our apologies but this surname has yet to be researched.
over 8 years
Apparently i have one of the oldest surnames recorded. That's pretty neat
over 8 years
... it is occupational for a weaver of cloth. The derivation is claimed to be from the Olde English pre 7th Century word "webbe", meaning to weave, as in the quote "My wife was a webbe and woolen cloth she made", from the tales of Piers Plowman in the 13th century.
over 8 years
Please accept our apologies but this surname has yet to be researched.
over 8 years
It would seem to have first arrived in England with the famous Norman Invaders of 1066, perhaps the earliest recording being that of Jacobus de Planche, in the year 1307, William de la Plaunke in the close Rolls of the city of London, in 1373, and three centuries later, Elizabeth Plank who was christened at St Dunstans in the East, Stepney, on August 11th 1678. The name returned from Franbce with the protestant Huguenots, who fled to England in the 17th and 18th centuries, and who for a time at least retained the French spelling. However such was aggresion between the two countries that by the year 1750, Planque as a spelling seems to have become extinct, and thereafter is only recorded in the English forms. This is not unusual, very few Huguenot spellings have survived, and this at least sounds almost the same as the original French. Their seems to be some disagreement over original meaning, which may be topographical for somebody who lived by a single Plain tree, or by a hidden place or a look out post.
over 8 years
It has a number of possible origins. In the single spellings of White or Wita, it appears in the very earliest surviving registers such as the famous Anglo-Saxon Chronicles of the pre 9th century a.d. Whilst translating as white, the early name referred either to a baby, one who was "unblemished", or it may have been for some nameholders an ethnic term given to a Viking or Anglo-Saxon, who were pale in hair and complexion compared with the original native Celts, who were dark. Another possible origin is residential. If so this could describe somebody who lived at a "wiht", generally regarded as being the bend of a river, but in some areas of the country could describe a stretch of land suitable for grazing. It could also mean "The wait", as in the village name of White in Devon, which originally, it is claimed, denoted a place suitable for an ambush! Lastly the name can be Huguenot 17th century. Many French people called 'Blanc' fled France after 1685, and in England they changed their name to White.
over 8 years
This surname of Scottish origin is derived from a place near Melrose in the former county of Roxburgh. The placename originated when Maccus, son of Undewyn, a Saxon lord, in the reign of David 1, obtained a grant of land on the Tweed River before 1150 and from the salmon pool attached thereto called 'Maccus's Wiel'; the lands obtained their name.
deletedover 8 years
Please accept our apologies but this surname has yet to be researched.
over 8 years
either that site is stupid or em is full of oddballs
I'm leaning toward the latter
over 8 years
"Please accept our apologies but this surname has yet to be researched."

I'm upset.
over 8 years
Please accept our apologies but this surname has yet to be researched.


rip
over 8 years
Tbh, we can just google search what came up. Congrats, Platy, I know your last name.
over 8 years
Recorded in a number of spellings including Cour, Court, Cort, Corte, de Court, Decourt, Decort, Delacour, Delacourt, and others, this is a surname of medieval French origins. First introduced into the British Isles after the famous Norman Conquest of 1066 it was residential for a person who lived at a "court". This was a term used for a manor house or equivalent as well as a Royal Court. It was also occupational for somebody employed at a court.