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Last names were first used in China in BC on account of the census, and this concept eventually spread to the rest of the world. Truthfully, last names are fairly recent inventions in some parts of the world, where sometimes only nobles were once given family names, or other times there were simply different ways to refer to people.
Surnames present us with an interesting slice of anthropology because they contain all kinds of information about our ancestors and the kinds of societies they once lived in. Generally speaking, last names can be sorted into five categories based on what they were originally derived from: place names; occupations; personal characteristics; the names of parents or ancestors; and patronage in other words, being named after a patron, not someone you were directly related to.
Here are the stories of some of the most common last names around the world and what they can tell us about our origins. According to genealogy and census data compiled by NetCredit , occupational names appear to be a mostly European tradition, whereas ancestral names are a common trend throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America.
Similarly widespread are personal characteristic names, though the only continent where they appear to outnumber ancestral names is Africa. This was both to preserve their status and protect themselves from assassination. Initially, the original patriarch was who determined the family name for generations to come, but Russians also use their own patronymic as a sort of precursor to the family name.
Kim is the most common last name in both North and South Korea, as well as Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. One name on the birth and death registers and two on the marriage register Alphabetical listing below. Surnames occurring most often on the birth, death and marriage registers in Scotland in listed alphabetically.
One name on the birth and death registers and two on the marriage register. Skip to main content.
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