Last names you rarely hear

[GoAggieGo.]

I’ve never come across a Gavin, outside my mamas side of the family.

 

[AuntAnniesPretzels]

Duckworth

 

[Cave Savage]

Adolf Hitler totally ruined a surname, after WWII dozens of dudes in Austria had to change their surnames and burn family records.

Yep, there are pretty much no Hitlers left. And no new Adolfs either in the German speaking world.

 

[Cave Savage]

For some reason a lot of Dominicans have last names that I rarely otherwise hear among Hispanics

Like "Bisono" or "Mambru"

 

[AuntAnniesPretzels]

For some reason a lot of Dominicans have last names that I rarely otherwise hear among Hispanics

Like "Bisono"

Never met a Colon who wasn’t PR

 

[Marc Spector]

My father's side of the family has a last name that's extremely unique.

 

[Cave Savage]

Yeah we got them from ante-bellum white families but I haven't came across any whites in the 2000s with those names. I almost felt like white families with those names went extinct.

There are a lot of white people with the last name Johnson. But agreed on the others

 

[skeetsinternal]

Avery

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I've come across a number of Ridenours (without the 'h'). Gotta remember where but it's a substantial name.

I've seen white people with that surname but no black people outside of Chuck D

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Most whites, especially outside the South are recent arrivals compared to us and they often have last names black folks don't have.
Weren't many, if any, Greek/Polish/Italian etc., slave owners...so of course you're not going to see Rashad Stamos, DeAndre Krzyzewski or Jamal D'Antoni......more like Rashad Smith, DeAndre King and Jamal Davis.

Some blacks had ancestors enslaved by non English/Gaelic (Scottish and Irish) speaking people, like Germans. You'll see brehs with names like Weber or Wagner. Probably no Eichmann, Braun or Mueller though.

I noticed there are actually numerous black people in Louisiana with Italian surnames. I know they often have Spanish names too in Louisiana but the names I've seen were clearly not Spanish.

 

[invalid]

Only knew one Jenkins as a kid. He was definitely southern. The Dallas County judge is Clay Jenkins (dad was Warwick Jenkins so you know there's gotta be some Civil War blood around there somewhere).

He looks like he was a Confederate general in another life.

Say, fukk these last names tho
At best they're a way to discover our family history.... but once that's discovered, they're useless






We should make our own last names, we already do it with first names... so why not?

Why break the link between you and your enslaved ancestors?

A lot of them in my family had the last name of "Freeman" so there are some that identify as black, some identify as melungeon, and some identify as white.

You know there was Freeman vs. Freedman back in the day.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

I noticed there are actually numerous black people in Louisiana with Italian surnames. I know they often have Spanish names too in Louisiana but the names I've seen were clearly not Spanish.

Makes sense.

There were Italians down in Louisiana....they even got lynched by other whites.

March 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings - Wikipedia

 

[BaileyPark31]

Pewterschmidt.

 

[SATAN]

For some reason a lot of Dominicans have last names that I rarely otherwise hear among Hispanics

Like "Bisono" or "Mambru"

African influence, as much as they'd hate to admit it

 

[NZA]

i never meet any charlos. still have never seen anyone else with that name other than the two boxer brothers