#surname — Public Fediverse posts

Went to ship a package the other day and the guy in the Post Office insisted on trying to pronounce my name. He did pretty great, considering the surprising twists I've heard. Said he takes pride in guessing people's pronounciations, told him he surprised me with his near-perfect guess.
#extra #consonants #mispronounce #pronounciation #surname #given #name #chosen #spelling #uncle #namesake #junior #third #fourth #inherit #moniker #Russian #grandparents #USA #immigrants #power the #UnitedStates

Day 29 - The 29th Map 🗺️ of #30DayMapChallenge "Population" An imaginary map of #Czech Republic 🇨🇿based on the #surname distribution.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_name

https://mapologies.com

#30daymapchallengequizz #30MapChallenge #MapChallenge #mapologies #prijmeni #balkanized #imaginerymap #alternative #mapa #Českárepublika

The MyHeritage site is confused because my ex-wife’s maiden name is the same as my current last name. I took her name when we married and kept the last name when we divorced to retain consistency with my kids.

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Surname

QRT #JWHIA https://babka.social/@jewwhohasitall/109818863484307343

Going back a bit to a recent #schoolLetter, #DearPrincipal this time. Some #names, a #holiday, a #song, and #woke.

Let's go!

#Berkowitz (also #Berkowicz, #Berkovich, etc) /ˈberkɔvɪt͡s (Yiddish), ˈbɝkəwɪts (English) = Ashkenazi Jewish #surname literally meaning “son of little bear.” Borrowed into English from Yiddish. Derived from the Yiddish #given #name #Berke...

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@jewwhohasitall Dominant arm still out of commission and still waiting on my fancy new keyboard, but I can manage a short toot with one-hand hunt-and-peck, because #names are always fun:

Doron /doˈʁon (Hebrew), dəˈɹon (English)/ = #givenName for boys and girls, borrowed into Mishnaic Hebrew from Ancient Greek approx 200-400 CE, meaning "gift" and "handswidth." Also #surname, as matronymic then patronymic. #Name borrowed into English from Hebrew.

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Here I am again back in Boston where I started my search for the Tilney family.

The summer took me to two villages on either side of the Humber in search of this lady’s maternal ancestry. It is possible that this is Margaret the wife of Frederick Tilney.

Margaret and Frederick had at least one son, whose descendants would go on to greater things (depending on your point of view that is) in the mid-16th century.

Margaret’s effigy once lay in the church of St John’s in Skirbeck. It is this area, which predates Boston itself, that I find myself this weekend.

#lincolnshire #boston #stbotolphs #bostonstump #tower #stjohns #skirbeck #church #tomb #effigy #medieval #architecture #surname #tilney #rochford #family #familyhistory #lincolnshirefamilyhistory

#RaceIsBullshit #Race is a political construct.

A #melanin_count, #appearance, #surname do not a 'race' make.

#Racism, #antisemitism, #genocide, #xenophobia, #colonialism, #state_violence, #discrimination, #oppression, etc are the results of people BELIEVING in race.

#Margaret /'margrɪt or 'margərɪt (US English) = female #given #name meaning "pearl"; attested in English at least since the 1000s.

#Margalit (also #Margalith, #Marganit) /marga'lit (Hebrew), 'margəlit (English)/ = 1. female #given #name meaning "gem, pearl" ➡️​ 2. a Jewish #matronymic ➡️​ #paternal #surname attested at least as early as the late 1400s.

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#Sandler (also #Sandlar) /ˈsændlɚ (English)/ = Jewish #surname, borrowed into English from Yiddish and Hebrew, with 2 etymologies: 1. borrowed into Hebrew from Latin SANDLARIUS (= sandal/shoe-maker), maintains that meaning in Hebrew, and has other variants e.g. #Sandel and #Sandelmann. 2. borrowed into Hebrew from a diminutuve of the Greek #given #name Alexander (= helper of men); Jews have used Greek names since at least the destruction of the Second Temple 2000+ years ago.

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#Roth /rɑθ (English, from German and Gaelic) = a #surname common among Jews, adopted from local gentile surnames. 1. From Scots and Scottish English (from Scottish Gaelic, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European), "wheel"; 2. from German, etymologically murky; possibly from a word meaning "red," "wood," "king," "bloodshed from war," or "fame." Variations of the name include #Rothschild, #Reitman, #Rothwell, #Rottbaum, etc

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#DiPasquale /di pæˈskwale (English, from Italian) = di (of) + Pasquale (originally a male given #name; ultimately from Hebrew Pesach. in contemporary Italian it means "related to Passover and/or Easter"). Di Pasquale = "of Pasquale" (a patronymic that became a #surname)

#Chag /χaɡ/ = festival

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