Based on you last names, Where is your family from?


There are many Galicians in South America, as Galicia was a very poor region of Spain. In Argentina I think most people have a Galician background. And in Brazil Galicians are so common that a slang term for white people in general is "galego", which means someone from Galicia.
 
My family name goes back in different iterations to pre-Civil War English nobility of some rank.
 
There are many Galicians in South America, as Galicia was a very poor region of Spain. In Argentina I think most people have a Galician background. And in Brazil Galicians are so common that a slang term for white people in general is "galego", which means someone from Galicia.

Funny how Galicia is a fairly rich area of Spain now. :lol:
 
Based on last name I'm from Bavaria
 
Me and my father traced our family line back to the 1800's. We were a family of Ashkenazim Jewish mushroom farmers in Germany. Now whenever anyone refers to mushrooms we call them our family name.
 
My last name has undergone several mistranslation/bastardizations to go from a very common Danish last name to an extremely rare last name.

Family ancestry probably includes (but is probably not limited to) Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Estonia [certain], Lithuania and Russia.
 
I looked up mine. apparently its some corruption of another British surname.
 
From Cornwall. My name is a Anglicised version of a Cornishised version of the Latin word Regulus.
 
My parents, grandparents, great-grandparents (and probably a few more generations) are from a region in southern Mexico.

My last name comes from Spain (from Navarre to be specific) where it originated with some nobility (apparently).

My moms maiden name, on the other hand, Im not so sure. Its highly likely its also from Spain, but Im not 100% certain.

The funny part is, someone with my exact same last name lives two houses down from me. What are the odds of that? :crazyeye:
 
Interestingly enough considering my paternal family name, my mother's family is Slavo-Celtic with Scottish ancestry on one side, and Romanian on the other.
 
Interestingly enough considering my paternal family name, my mother's family is Slavo-Celtic with Scottish ancestry on one side, and Romanian on the other.

Do you consider Romania a Slavic nation?
 
Family name is olde English. But has been in North America long enough to be muttified. Mother's side of the family has a straight line of decent to Ireland, but the name seems to be Scotts-Irish.
 
According to my dad, our last name was originally Old English for "over the river", but the spelling has gone through a quite a few changes over the centuries. My mother's maiden name is also english origin, but I don't know what it means.
 
I looked up mine. apparently its some corruption of another British surname.

I forgot to mention that apparently there have Mexican relatives with that last name too, but I dont know anything about them.

My father has a French last name but I dont know what it is and I dont care about that idiot anyways.
 
I took my father's Turkic surname, not my mother's Russo-Jewish one. (Though in my life I've only rarely seen my father).
 
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