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POLL: What does your last name mean?
I have a popular last name in Italy and my last name comes from the Latin route. It means Rome :)
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27 Answers
- Anonymous5 years ago
My last name is Cross which is a shorter form of the Italian name Crossetti. Both roughly mean "ye who bears the Cross of the Lord"
- 1 decade ago
It means pete diggers that have an aristocratic household. It is german even though I'm not from germany, it is honerzuguntenhosen (there should be some accents in there but I can't put them in) except about 80 years ago my family shortened it to honer. which is much easier to pronounce.
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- ¥No Soy Medico¥Lv 61 decade ago
It was the name of people who did certain things on the Thames River...
I can't tell you exactly what they did without telling you what my last name is. :)
My mom's maiden name, however, means Green Meadow (Not a Direct Translation) in Czech.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
In Kenya, the name URKEL means a benign cyst on the foreleg of a wilderbeast!
Us Urkels are very proud of our name!
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
my last name is of spanish origin and the most common meaning is "descendant or son of gerald" and in medieval means "like a fox". it is the 8th most common surname among the United States.
- 1 decade ago
well depending on the dialect it means either new village or belt buckle bahaha that's my maiden name at least... I've never found out what my married name means! ,
* edit! Oh and it's of mexican origin lol
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Deriu also Italian means " of the river "
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It means a lake