Family Last Name

Family Last Name

Is all the people who have the same last name family?

Whether your in America or Europe or anywhere in the world. If all the people who have the same surname are they all family of some kind? like im from south africa my last name is Uys.. there are some celebriteies that have the last name of Uys.. are we all family of some kind or how does that work if you trace it backwards?

People with the same surname are not necessarily related for 2 major reasons:

1. Surnames were never unique words.
Most surname, particularly in the European tradition, originated from places or geographic features (i.e. Hill), personal descriptions or attributes (i.e. Brown), occupations (i.e. Smith), or lineage of first names (i.e. Johnson was a son of John). It's very common that 2 totally unrelated people would have been the "first" in a lineage to use the same surname. This is even more true in places with colonial (or slave) heritage, as people with no prior surname would have often taken surnames from the colonial power's culture, even though they were not related to anyone within that culture. Also, the same surname can originate in 2 totally different places and among unrelated peoples (Lee is the common example.)

2. People change surnames.
Usually when a surname is changed, for whatever reason, it's not to something totally new and made up. It's often to an already existing name that sounds similar or has the same meaning in a different language (i.e. Braun to Brown). Common reasons a person might change their surname include migration, adoption, phonetics, to gain power or reduce persecution, or to hide. A good example: after WW2 nearly all people with the last name Hitler changed their name. It's doubtful they changed it to something never before heard, that would not be very helpful in trying to hide your past name, since it would raise questions. They probably also did not change it to something that could be easily connected to them. So now Joe Hitler is Joe Smith, no relation to any other Smith in the world.

The only way to know if you are related to anyone else, regardless of their name, is to do the research that connects one ancestor to another.

Any ideas for hippie/nature last names to help us choose a new family name when our baby is born?

We are wanting to change our last names, since we are getting married soon, and having a baby in October, we are wanting to start a new family name. We want something unique and on the hippie/nature side. Any ideas?

Since choosing a name is a very personal and emotional experience, which will effect someone's entire life, I don't really think Yahoo! Answers is the best place to start asking since you're going to get a lot of off-color responses. Nonetheless, here's a few ideas:

Meadow
Prairie
Willow
Soulchild
Starchild
Any astrological symbol
White Rabbit (there's a joke in this one)
Herbert (there's a joke in this one, too)
Freshair
Earth
Soil
Water
Fire
Oxygen

If your goal is to be creative, then be creative (I guess).

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