What's in a name?

I think the most reasonable thing to change names is to protect oneself from criminals.

Here we make much of deciding on a name,but it isn't associated with the occupation of the person or their family.

I am glad of my short family name, the one of my husband is longer, but in Italy women keep their family name, while in France they take the surname of their husbands.

Would love to hear the junk story

Lots of British names are place names. Often I have only realised this when looking at a map. For example the well-known miners' leader Arthur Scargill - originally named after a place in Yorkshire I figured when one day I saw Scargill on the map. My partner has a friend called Zara Bird-Wood which seemed odd until I spotted Bird-Wood in Shropshire.

Here people change names according to name numerology or keep names as per their chart astrology! Celebs do change their name too!

I always thought it would be better to get stuck with last name like Fink. Junk would be pretty bad too.

The very first thing is that I have never heard the word "surname" from someone else living outside of India. I thought the word "surname" was "wrongly originated" in India. And that is the reason I never tried to dig deep into knowing its etymology. But after you used the word, I feel it's the correct word. But I am really surprised after hearing those two surnames - ‘Younghusband’ and ‘Junk’. With all due respect, ‘Younghusband’ is at least ok, but ‘Junk’ goes a bit distance, isn't it? I have followed various sports like cricket, football and baseball etc. But I don't remember to have read "Younghusband" and "Junk" as any player's name. Or maybe I am not able to recall anyone with that name even if they do exist. Anyway, it was a good exercise with a couple of new names and some addition to my general knowledge as well, hahaha

It is interesting to search the origin of a name. I just searched the origin of my maiden name and am a little surprised by the results, as it claimed that we were once great lords and sometimes kings. I find that a bit humorous given the fact that we immigrated to Canada during the potato famine and came across as very poor immigrants.

Weird names there

I once came across a chap whose name was Smelly. I didn't believe it and he showed me ID, Still not sure he wasn't pulling my leg

Interesting. I can't imagine where Younghusband and Junk came from. Have a good day.

I'll happily stick with Bauer myself as well, although in German it means "farmer," which I am hardly one of. I can barely plant a seed let alone grow it into anything worthwhile. lol I can see some names needing a change. Hitler comes to mind. Who would ever want that name? There's a funny joke around here, "George Washington was the first president of the United States. What was he the last of?" The answer is: The last white man to ever bear the surname Washington. Oddly, it's true. I have never known a white guy with that last name but I know a LOT of black men who have it. I have no idea why.

Those are really strange names.

I’ve always felt bad for people with last names like Roach. Ugh.

I can make a guess how the name Younghusband came about... distinguishing between father and son with the name Husband...

Most Parsis here have their surname related to their ancestral occupation I was named after my paternal grand mother

When Latvians first arrived in the US there were many problems with odd sounding last names and even first names, Guys called John were Janis in Latvian which could be boy or girl etc,

I don't really like my name, except for Horse. I often wonder about names. The Indians (native Americans) made naming their children pretty easy. At least that's what my Piute friend, Two Dogs Screwing, told me. The trees in your photo remind me of hiking in the Berkeley Hills.

I wonder if "Junk" was pronounced "Yoonk" and was German or Scandinavian. Almost all Japanese names, by contrast, are place names, not occupations - Ishida means stone field (rice paddy), Kawaguchi means river mouth, Takashima means tall island, etc