First Names and Surnames of your Nations of Origin

[NS Miami Shores]

Plese state your nation of origin on your post. Native born Cuban, now America citizen, España La Madre Patria. Alberto. Since most persons on NS are from the US, Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Hispanic nations and Brazil. Either born there or descendants of Europeans. As well as from China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and all over the world. What are the common first names and surnames in your nation of origin? Not the surnames of recent immigrants to your nation. So we can compare the names and surnames the different nations have and share of long ago. What do the names and surnames mean? What ethnic origins of long ago are they? Nordic, Germanic, Goths, Visigoths, Slavic, latin or others? Are they the same names but with similar or very differen spelling? I found a site, which I just lost, darn. which claims that thiere are Andres in Bulgaria, Martinez's in Croatia, of long ago, not just recent immigrants. Seems kind of strange, as I would associate those surnames more with Spain than Bulgaria or Croatia. Smith's are supposed to be all over Europe and the world.

Exsamples:
In Cuba many persons came from Africa and Spain. But from France and many European nations as well. So their are still many families with French surnames. The same all over the Hispanic nations, Canada, and the USA, with different surnames.

Alberto, Roberto, Alejandro, Garcia, Gonzalez, Rodirguez, Sanchez, Alvarez, Ruiz, Valdez are considered Germanic names from Spain. Are their persons from long ago with these surnames in Nordic, Germanic, or Slavic nations?

What are the meanings of the names and origin of the names? Are their any of these names, of long ago in the Germanic and Slavic nations of Europe? The Slavic surnames, are their common Slavic surnames, of long ago in the Slavic and Germanic nations? Post surnames of famous and Important People in your nation that have Surnames not usually considered common surnames in your nation. Post famous people current or dead, especially from Europe who had a different surname not usually associated with the European nation of birth? Do they spell them similar, the same or different? Well I guess, you kind of get what the thread is about, so have NS fun. I had a better page prepared, but one wrong click and I lost it all, darn browser. Had to start all over again, and not the same. If you find a link that helps the thread please post them. Here are some links to help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m ... _in_Europe

http://genealogy.about.com/cs/surname/a ... _names.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m ... iven_names

Poll options:

01 I am from a Slavic Nation, please post nation
02 I am from a Germanic Nation, please post nation.
03 I am from a Nordic Nation, please post nation.
04 I am from a European Latin Nation, please post nation.
05 I am from a Hispanic Nation, please post nation of descent
06 I am from the USA, please post nation of descent
07 I am from Canada, please post nation of descent
08I am from Australia, please post nation of descent
09 I am from New Zealand, please post nation of descent
10 I am from Asia please post nation of origin.

11 option not on the poll, others, please post Other: from what nation and descent. So I can count them into the poll from time to time.

[NS Miami Shores]

For more links to help the thread:

Spaniard - Spanish Surnames:

http://surnames.behindthename.com/names/usage/spanish

Slavic Surnames:

http://surnames.behindthename.com/names/usage/slavic

French Surnames in Cuba:

http://www.cubagenweb.org/family-trees/index.htm

http://www.cubagenweb.org/french/french-1843.pdf

[NS Miami Shores]

Just found this awesome link: Spanish surnames by provinces and percents % :

http://www.heraldica.es/apellidos/provincias.htm

01 Alejandra - Alvarez - Diaz - Fernandez - Garcia - Garza - Gonzalez - Gutierrez - Hernandez - Jimenez - Lopez - Martinez - Melendez - Perez - Rodriguez - Rubio - Ruiz - Salazar - Sanchez - Santiago - Suarez - Valdez - and tons more of all kinds.

[The Liberated Territories]

Canadian-American, last name is Low German/Dutch in origin.

[Major-Tom]

American to the core, Swedish/German/Scots-Irish and some other descent, Irish/Gaelic surname from my dad's side somewhere.

[USS Monitor]

Alberto, Roberto, Alejandro, Garcia, Gonzalez, Rodirguez, Sanchez, Alvarez, Ruiz, Valdez are considered Germanic names from Spain. Are their persons from long ago with these surnames in Nordic, Germanic, or Slavic nations?

The names are probably modified from what they were in the original language. Like Albert and Robert are common names in Germanic languages, but Alberto and Roberto aren't.

[NS Miami Shores]

Alberto, Roberto, Alejandro, Garcia, Gonzalez, Rodirguez, Sanchez, Alvarez, Ruiz, Valdez are considered Germanic names from Spain. Are their persons from long ago with these surnames in Nordic, Germanic, or Slavic nations?

The names are probably modified from what they were in the original language. Like Albert and Robert are common names in Germanic languages, but Alberto and Roberto aren't.

Thank you for that post. Yeah It sounds like that makes perfect sense. So what about the Germanic Surnames? Gonzalez, Rodirguez, Sanchez, Alvarez, Ruiz, Valdez. In what forms do they appear in the Germanic and Nordic nations, or don't appear? I mean I have never heard of a Gonzalez, Rodriguez, Sanchez, Alvarez, Ruiz, or Valdez from a Germanic or Nordic nation. But the names are considered Germanic, Nordic. The same with Slavic names in other European nations.

[Nekotani]

American, a lot of surnames in my family have Norman origins, hence I'm unsure whether they count as Nordic, Latin, Germanic, etc. Others are Irish, English, and Scottish.

[USS Monitor]

The names are probably modified from what they were in the original language. Like Albert and Robert are common names in Germanic languages, but Alberto and Roberto aren't.

Thank you for that post. Yeah It sounds like that makes perfect sense. So what about the Germanic Surnames? Gonzalez, Rodirguez, Sanchez, Alvarez, Ruiz, Valdez. In what forms do they appear in the Germanic and Nordic nations, or don't appear? I mean I have never heard of a Gonzalez, Rodriguez, Sanchez, Alvarez, Ruiz, or Valdez from a Germanic or Nordic nation. But the names are considered Germanic, Nordic. The same with Slavic names in other European nations.

I'm not sure where those are from. Roderick is a Germanic name that might be related to Rodriguez. The "-ez" is a Spanish ending that I haven't come across in other languages, but it may be from the same root as the "-s" on names like Richards, Roberts, etc.

[Pasong Tirad]

Well I'm Filipino, so my first name and surnames are Hispanic, as well as kind of following Spanish naming customs - such as adding the maternal name somewhere in the name.

But nowadays, the norm is usually an Anglicized/American first name with a Spanish surname.

[NS Miami Shores]

Thank you for that post. Yeah It sounds like that makes perfect sense. So what about the Germanic Surnames? Gonzalez, Rodirguez, Sanchez, Alvarez, Ruiz, Valdez. In what forms do they appear in the Germanic and Nordic nations, or don't appear? I mean I have never heard of a Gonzalez, Rodriguez, Sanchez, Alvarez, Ruiz, or Valdez from a Germanic or Nordic nation. But the names are considered Germanic, Nordic. The same with Slavic names in other European nations.

I'm not sure where those are from. Roderick is a Germanic name that might be related to Rodriguez. The "-ez" is a Spanish ending that I haven't come across in other languages, but it may be from the same root as the "-s" on names like Richards, Roberts, etc.

Thank You again, USS Monitor.

[NS Miami Shores]

Well I'm Filipino, so my first name and surnames are Hispanic, as well as kind of following Spanish naming customs - such as adding the maternal name somewhere in the name.

But nowadays, the norm is usually an Anglicized/American first name with a Spanish surname.

Are you a Filipino of mixed Spaniard descent? I think about 4 % of Filipinos are of Spaniard, mixed Spaniard descent. That Corporation I used too work at with the Nicaraguan Lady, 2 North Koreans, and the Vietnamese Lady, also worked their with 2 Filipino ladies, with a Spaniard sounding first name. Cant rember her last name. I hope it comes to me sooner or later.

[The Liberated Territories]

Thank you for that post. Yeah It sounds like that makes perfect sense. So what about the Germanic Surnames? Gonzalez, Rodirguez, Sanchez, Alvarez, Ruiz, Valdez. In what forms do they appear in the Germanic and Nordic nations, or don't appear? I mean I have never heard of a Gonzalez, Rodriguez, Sanchez, Alvarez, Ruiz, or Valdez from a Germanic or Nordic nation. But the names are considered Germanic, Nordic. The same with Slavic names in other European nations.

I'm not sure where those are from. Roderick is a Germanic name that might be related to Rodriguez. The "-ez" is a Spanish ending that I haven't come across in other languages, but it may be from the same root as the "-s" on names like Richards, Roberts, etc.

This is correct, in the history of the Spanish language an "e" was often inserted before a final or initial consonant (usually an "s"). Compare Latin "specialis" with Spanish "especial."

[Carena]

I live in the US, my first name is German and my last name is similarly German but also considered Jewish, though I don't have any Jewish background.

[Populi-Terrae]

I live in Australia. My last name is Polish in origin.

[Aclion]

American of British and Irish decent.

Common British names are boring so I'll leave them to an actual British poster.
Common Irish surnames include Murphy(Sea hound/warrior), O'Kelly(strife), O'Sullivan(dark-eyed one, one-eyed or hawk-eyed), Walsh(Welsh) and Smith(exactly what it says on the tin)

My own last name is English and means something like "from blade wolf town". I like to think they kept dogs made of swords there.

[Frenequesta]

I'm an American of Swiss, Polish, English, Welsh, and Irish descent. Surname is one of the top ten in the USA, and is Welsh-English.

[Risottia]

Alberto, Roberto, Alejandro, Garcia, Gonzalez, Rodirguez, Sanchez, Alvarez, Ruiz, Valdez are considered Germanic names from Spain.

Alejandro is MOST DEFS not of Germanic origin. It's Greek (Alexandros).

Anyway, Google is your friend. https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=aQ ... mon+name&*

. Like Albert and Robert are common names in Germanic languages, but Alberto and Roberto aren't.

The originals would be something on the lines of Adelbrecht and Hrodebert.

Anyway, Italian carrying a rather common Italian first name (of Latin origin) and a rather uncommon, but diffuse, Italian family name (of Central and Northern Italian origin).

[Krasny-Volny]

This poll seems a little Americas -centric because I am from a nation in Asia but it does not give me an option to also list where my ancestors came from.

Anyway, Malaysia. Surname is Irish (not that it matters, spelling has been bastardized over the generations anyway).

[Sjealand]

I am from denmark and while my surname (Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille) is really just a combination of 2 families and the place Larvik in norway most danish surnames are either a misspelling of a place for example Lygum, Toxværd, Plach and Tornbo. Sort of like the german Von surnames where it literally says From Area, we just dont add the from suffix. The most common surnames are the name + son surnames like Christian-sen, Peder-sen and Jakob-sen

Some of us also have middle names which are either our maternal surname or an extra name which was the name of an important recent ancestor. I for example have the middle name Hannibal, but i dont use it.

[The Federation of Kendor]

I'm from Indonesia. My mother is a Javanese and in Javanese tradition, there is no surname, only name. However, my father is a Chinese-Indonesian. Thus my surname is Tan, which is traditionally a Chinese surname

[Pasong Tirad]

Well I'm Filipino, so my first name and surnames are Hispanic, as well as kind of following Spanish naming customs - such as adding the maternal name somewhere in the name.

But nowadays, the norm is usually an Anglicized/American first name with a Spanish surname.

Are you a Filipino of mixed Spaniard descent? I think about 4 % of Filipinos are of Spaniard, mixed Spaniard descent. That Corporation I used too work at with the Nicaraguan Lady, 2 North Koreans, and the Vietnamese Lady, also worked their with 2 Filipino ladies, with a Spaniard sounding first name. Cant rember her last name. I hope it comes to me sooner or later.

I am. I believe I'm 1/8th Spanish, along with some Chinese and British somewhere in there. And I believe that 4% is kind of an underestimation. A lot of people in the Philippines have mixed ancestries, be it Malay, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, American or European.

[NS Miami Shores]

Just added a link to Spanish and French family surnames of Cuba to the second post on this thread.

Just found a well written interesting source. According to the source, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany is 1 - 4th Polish. Has a polish Slavic ancestor in her family:

http://ethnicelebs.com/angela-merkel

The site also has the ancestry of certain celebraties.

[Luziyca]

I'm from Canada. My first name is Norwegian. My middle name is Irish, and my last name is Polish. But that doesn't cover all of my genome: I am part-English, Ukrainian, German, and Russian.

[Living Freedom Land]

I'm American. My lineage is somewhat mixed but I'm largely of Anglo-Celtic, Old Stock colonial descent. I'm rather certain I'm a direct male descendant of someone who fought in the Revolutionary War, and I know one fought in the War of 1812. I'm a rural Southerner so that's pretty common heritage around here. My last name is English and so were the last names of all my grandparents. Although, one of my great grandparents I know had a Welsh last name.

My first name is English and my middle name is pretty English but it's a Biblical name if I recall correctly, so technically Hebrew.