What does your last name mean?

My maiden name was Willson, which means (obviously) "son of Will."

My first married name was Schindler, from German for the profession of "shingler" a roofer.

My second married name was Hardie, Old English/French for "bold" or "courageous."

My third married name was Jimenez, Spanish for "son of Jimeno (or Simón)."

I don't plan on getting married again.

My own ancestors were from Scotland and Ireland. The most distant ancestor we've been able to trace through my father's family is Andrew Thomason, Scotland, in the year 1345.

Logan - It's a type of brook/creek in Ireland. My last name is from my adoptive dad, so it's not from my ancestry.

My ancestors - Native American and French.. a tiny bit of British and Irish. But hardly enough to matter.

I love my last name and heritage!

My last name is Vannatta.

It is probably an Americanized form of the dutch name "Van Etten", which means "From Etten". Etten is a small town in the Netherlands. It might also originally be "Van Netters" which means "From the swampy place" but I hope it's the former and not the latter. I don't care much for swamps.

Any last name beginning with "Van", suchas Van Gogh of Van Horn, is Dutch.

It is the name of one of the prophets and it means beauty or something in Arabic. The English/Christian name of that prophet is Joseph. I don't have any Arab ancestry, it's just that my country's naming system is different (my last name was my great-grandfather's first name).

I'm Somali.

Williams(my last name)

Is German for Resolute Protector

My maiden name was Pohis - it means "I hear" or "I am hearing" in Mvskoke.

My family reclaimed their Mvskoke surname some 75 years ago after my grandfather renounced his white adoptive family to go back to the Creek Nation reservation that his parents were sent to.

My ancestors are Muskogee Creek - we hailed from southeastern US.

I just looked it up, it means someone who was:

fat in middle english;

lived on a hill (middle english);

a juggler (German);

or my favorite: dangerous (middle english)

But since I have no idea where my family came from that actually had my last name (because of slavery), I just listed them all.

my name actually depresses me. im african american and due to ownership by their masters, slaves were raped of any culture they had prior to coming to america and given european names.

i looked it up once. both my fathers and my mothers last names. different things came up as far as origin goes. most commonly british, scottish, irish. you get the idea. im actually bored so ill check again and tell you what i find.

when i looked up my entire name i found the following:

"English: from the common medieval personal name Gib, a short form of Gilbert. This surname is also frequent in Scotland and South Wales."

Then i checked "Gilbert" and got:

"English (of Norman origin), French, and North German: from Giselbert, a Norman personal name composed of the Germanic elements gisil ‘pledge’, ‘hostage’, ‘noble youth’ (see Giesel) + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’. This personal name enjoyed considerable popularity in England during the Middle Ages, partly as a result of the fame of St. Gilbert of Sempringham (1085–1189), the founder of the only native English monastic order. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames."

i looked up my moms name and got the following:

"English: habitational name from Snowden, a place in West Yorkshire named from Old English snaw ‘snow’ + dun ‘hill’, i.e. a hill where snow lies long."

so obviously...lol i really feel no connection to my last name. it has no real importance to me other than the fact that it ties me to my family. and they are pretty cool people. : ]

Morris: (origin: Welsh.) from Mawr and rys, a hero, a warrior, a brave man. Marth, the great, the warlike, same as Mavors.

It sounds as tho I'm the son of an American car maker... and I'm from England as are all of my ancestors as far as I know.