What is your surname?

My surname is "Rule"... it's an Anglicized version of a Cornishized version of the Latin word "regulus", aka "little king" or "ruler". Who's have thunk it.
 
Wait a second, the (old) Norse word for "market place" is "torg"?? Really? That's eerly similar to the Slavic "trg" (from which the Romanian word "târg" came from, which is the only reason why I know about the Slavic one). Call me crazy, but I'm seeing more and more random very very similar words between Germanic and Slavic languages.
It would be "turg" in Estonian. :)
 
"O Suilleabheann i gCarty an Bhfuil Cead agam go Dti an Leithreas Mais e Do Pheil e Mhuniteor Smith"

Half my family comes from Occupied Ireland. Guess which.
 
Some name my ancestors on my fathers side made up coming over here. I believe they were german? I'm not entirely sure about my background on my fathers side.

To quote Pulp Fiction roughly: I'm american, our names don't mean .... It's just a name. Nothing bad or good about it. It's short so signing my name isn't overly difficult. Very few bad people have sullied the name with infamous crimes and the like. I couldn't imagine being called Hitler, or Manson. :) Or Obama. Kidding on that last one. hehe
 
"O Suilleabheann i gCarty an Bhfuil Cead agam go Dti an Leithreas Mais e Do Pheil e Mhuniteor Smith"
Let's see, that's "O'Sullivan McCarthy summat summat summat Toilet summat summat summat Smith". Bit of a mouthful! You can't tell me you actually use that, do you? (Although, out of interest, do you use the Irish version at all, or the Anglicised one? You almost never see Gaelic names in Scotland outside of the Isles, and even then people to use the Anglicisations in official stuff.)

And I may be off a bit with "toilet", of course, but, well, Google is what it is. :p
 
O' Sullivan in McCarthy, can I go to the toilet please teacher, Smith.

Yeah its bs. I'm not giving my full name on here. :p

Although, "An bhfuil chead agam go dti an leithreas mhuinteor" is one of the first lines of Irish you will learn in here in primary school. I felt I had to authenticate it with some a cupla focail (few words) and that was one of the easiest lines of Irish to recall.

I know feck all Irish really.
 
All I am willing to disclose is, that one of my ancestors, a XVI-century French mercenary, went by the name of Xavier...
 
Habsburg.

...no, I wish.

It's actually Bates, which is fairly common in northern England and Southern Scotland, I've heard. So sad. I wanna be special. :(
 
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