What does your last name mean?

Last Name: Haun
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1. German: from a short form a the Germanic personal name formed with Hun ‘Hunâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji] (the people) or hūn ‘bear cubâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji] as the first element.

I found this here:
What does your last name mean?

My last name is Mitchell (for those of you familiar with South Dakota, yes, that Mitchell family).
In it's present state, it doesn't mean anything.
It's an Americanization of an unpronouncable and long forgotten Bulgarian name.

English: habitational name from places in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire called *******, named in Old English with (pre-Christian) temple + ‘hillâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]. ( means temple on the hill in Old English)

My name Trumbo comes up as the French version of the following German:

German: an unflattering nickname from Middle High German trāme ‘beamâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji], ‘rafterâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji] + bur ‘farmerâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji], denoting a crude peasant.

Seems pretty accurate to me!

BOND - English: status name for a peasant farmer or husbandman, Middle English bonde (Old English bonda, bunda, reinforced by Old Norse bóndi). The Old Norse word was also in use as a personal name, and this has given rise to other English and Scandinavian surnames alongside those originating as status names. The status of the peasant farmer fluctuated considerably during the Middle Ages; moreover, the underlying Germanic word is of disputed origin and meaning. Among Germanic peoples who settled to an agricultural life, the term came to signify a farmer holding lands from, and bound by loyalty to, a lord; from this developed the sense of a free landholder as opposed to a serf. In England after the Norman Conquest the word sank in status and became associated with the notion of bound servitude.

Another peasant...

English: habitational name from any of various places named Whitfield, for example in Derbyshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, and Northumberland, named with Old English hwīt ‘white’ + feld ‘open country’, because of their chalky or soil.

German: nickname for a big eater or a spendthrift, from Middle High German zeren ‘to spend a lot of money on food and drinkâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji], ‘splurgeâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji].

So THAT explains it!

Originally Posted by rapunzel47

English: habitational name from any of various places named Whitfield, for example in Derbyshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, and Northumberland, named with Old English hwīt ‘white’ + feld ‘open country’, because of their chalky or soil.

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OMG - my gg grandmother was a Whitefield!!!

Origin of the Surname McCabe

The son of Cabe. Caob, Gaelic, a bough, branch, a clod, lump, a bit or piece of any thing. Ceap, the top of a hill, a sign set up in time of battle.


So that's what my last name means!

Nor sure what my married name means but my birth name means "Princess of Noble Birth" If that's not laughable I don't know what is! LOL

My last name means:

Free Peasant!

This site didn´t recognize my last name, but here is what my last name means:

In Iceland we don´t have family names like in most other countries. Our last name is based on *who* we are, like an extra description of us, a bit further than our first name.
What each last name means, is who´s daughter or who´s son we are. Like my fathers name is Jón (John), so my last name is Jónsdótttir (the daughter of John). That way members of a certain family can have 4 different last names, for examples the husbands father´s name is Gunnar, so his last name is Gunnarsson. The wifes father´s name is Hersteinn, so her last name is Hersteinsdóttir. If they have a daughter and a son, their last names, if the husbands name would be.....Kristján: Kristjánsdóttir and Kristjánsson.

Usually the name of the father is in the last name, sometimes (much less frequently) the name of the mother and sometimes (very rarely) the names of both parents. People can choose themselves if they link to their mother or father.

We don´t change names when we get married, since we are still the daughters of our father, married or not.

If we are giving our name, people dont ask "whats your last name?", but "who´s daughter are you?"

We use our first name in all public things, like we talk to the president by his first name and so on.

People are listed in the phonebook by first name.

OK, I guess that is enough lecture for *Last names in Iceland 101*

The last name I have and use doesn't mean anything: my orphaned Grandfather adopted it, it's not actually his inherited surname.

The family name of the side of the family I'm closest to is as such:
Southern Italian: from the personal name Elia, Italian equivalent of Elias.

That surname is actually my middle name, because my Grandmother wanted my name to reflect my Italian heritage

larson.... an americanized form of larsson. From what i know it means "son of lars"

Neat site. Here's mine:
Armitage
English: topographic name from Middle English, Old French (h)ermitage ‘hermitageâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji] (a derivative of Old French (h)ermite ‘hermitâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]), or a habitational name from a place named with this word. The name is very common in Yorkshire, where it has been traced to Hermitage Bridge, a locality in Almondbury, near Huddersfield.

Mine is a little duh...

Black
Scottish and English: from Middle English blak(e) ‘blackâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji] (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man.

BTW, love the way Icelandic names work.

Last Name: Bowen\t
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English, of Welsh origin: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Owain ‘son of Owain’ (see Owen).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhacháin ‘descendant of Buadhachán’, a diminutive of Buadhach ‘victorious’ (see Bohan).

Booo! I was hoping for something more interesting.

My last name: Pratt

Meaning: nickname for a clever trickster, from Old English prætt ‘trickâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji], ‘trickyâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji], ‘cunningâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji] (which is found in use as a byname in the 11th century). This surname is quite common in southeastern Ireland.

Awesome!

As far as I know my last name doesn't mean anything - Yovich. It's Croatian and apparently about as common in Croatia as Jones is in Australia! Unfortunately all of the relatives I have who could explain it live over there and speak no English so it would be pretty hard to find out.