I cognomi più comuni legati all’occupazione in Europa
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I cognomi più comuni legati all’occupazione in Europa
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di Porodicnostablo
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source: Everything about maps
Cooper, Fletcher, Baker in the UK
Ireland’s like 💪🗿
I’m trying my best to think what “Kavaliauskas” occupation is, and I’m freaking stumped.
Because most maps like this are always wrong, I dug into it to see if Kinnunen is correct. So it is quite high in the list of common surnames, and I couldn’t see anything profession related before that. Then I looked into the etymology of this word and found one mention that kinnunen refers to the word skinnare = skinner. So it may be correct. However, Kinnunen by itself isn’t a proper “profession”, i.e. you wouldn’t be able to say “I am a kinnunen by profession”. I think. If it were a profession it would probably end with -ri? Like kinnari? But oh well I don’t know.
We dont realy use occupational names in the Nordics. In Sweden there is not a single one among the top 200 names.
Based Czechia
Dvořák translates better into Steward than Landowner imo
Lmao @ kovačić not even slovenian last name. Nor is leter ć in slovenian alphabet. Bs map.
Nobody uses Ferrari as a profession. Stop with this non-sense. Barbieri could be a valid one.
I’m surprised that for the Netherlands “Bakker” (baker) supposedly is more common than “De Boer” (farmer)
We were never occupied by the Murphys… oh, now I get it.
Ferreira is not really an occupation surname. It’s a toponym.
IIRC if we combine all spelling variants of the German equivalent of “Smith”, it would outrank “Miller”
Austrian Sepp 🤝🏻 Estonian Sepp
Took me way too long to realize that Kowalski means Smith. Now that I look at it, it’s very similar to Kovács.
There would have been many options for finnish that are much more obvious to modern people like seppä(nen) = blacksmith. Also there is an earlier form of kinnunen skinnari still in use which is closer to the swedish word skinnare where the meaning comes from.
I thought the romanian name Pop/Popa comes from an archaism for plumber ?
Meanwhile in Finland we had German clergymen making up names for us when regular ”son of x” names didn’t work for them
Croatia has three versions of this. Kovačević (ranks #3 in most common surnames), Kovačić (#15), and Kovač (#45, literally “smith”, or “blacksmith”).
As was said the last time this was posted:
Austrian “Gruber” isn’t an occupational name but a location based one meaning someone who lives in a valley or ditch.
Ferrari meaning Smith absolutely hit me like truck, how can you be Italian and flexing with a Smith car? Always thought Ferrari was some fancy Italian last name
According to Wikipedia, in the Netherlands “Bakker” is indeed the most common occupation-related surname if you look at single variants, with about 57k people. However, “Smit” with 43k and “Smits” at 24k would actually trump that if you lump them together, for a total of 67k (and there are more variants than that – e.g. “Smid”, “De Smid”, “Smidse”, etc. – just not among the top-100 that I could find). So technically there are more people with smith-derived surnames in the Netherlands than baker-derived surnames (for which “Bakker” is really the only common variant).
In case you were wondering how “Priest” can be a family name in the Balkans: unlike Roman Catholic priests, who are generally required to be celibate and unmarried before becoming a priest, the Eastern Orthodox church allows married men to be ordained (but still not to marry after ordination).
Kowalski, analysis!
I am learning way too much from this image;
– Smith is actually referring to a profession (I just never made the connection in my head)
– Ferrari is Italian for “Smith”
– Kowalski is Polish for “Smith”
– Murphy is (presumably) Gaelic for “Sea Warrior”
This has legitimately blown my mind. Thanks OP!