The past had a LOT of smiths.
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“Son, you come from a long line of Dontanswers. Now do your ancestors an honorable turn and impose the most annoying phone conversation in history on this near-stranger.”
You forgot to add the location. John Philadelphia Carpenter.
Joseph Nazareth Carpenter
I have a friend whose surname is Fletcher. I learned recently that's just an arrow maker. That said I've seen in other regions people are named for what time and location they are born and by gender.
I do this, too, and my best friend is in my phone by just his last name (the name he goes by), so when I added his wife to my phone when they got married, I put her in as "Name Hislastname," in that same way of association, like you would add someone as "bill plumber," or whatever. And I realized, wait, is this how married couples sharing a name started? Lol
Lots of Dutch last names are ridiculous, allegedly in defiance of foreign empires forcing the people to adopt them for registration purposes.
One example is; Naaktgeboren, meaning "born naked"
Eddie cocaine, mike shit weed.
Japanese is more like 'bob from the long field', 'steve from the middle of the village', etc. and are often place references (certain classes had more rights before people had the right to surnames, so a bit different that far back).
There are a lot of surnames like that in English. Westfield, Norwood, Whitmore, Blackwell, etc.
In Danish you get some very precise locations of farms relative to villages and see names like Nordestgaard (North East Farm), Højgaard (high farm, i.e., on a hill), Bjerregaard (mountain farm)
Before weed was legal my dealer’s name was John Budd.
Matamoros is the one I don't like thinking about.
Moor killer
Metal as fuck
Don't know, Electrić sounds kinda Balkan to me.
I'm a school bus driver. Our director of transportation is in my phone as "Patti Busboss". I genuinely have no idea what her real last name is.
And then there’s the 13th-century simpleton John Fuckbythenavel
Tons of John Work in mine. Definitely not as cool as John Wick.
It works the same way in all older languages.

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