Mar 17, 2024 · Notable people with double-barrelled names include Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Sacha Baron Cohen and JuJu Smith-Schuster. In the Western tradition of surnames, there are several types of double surname (or double-barrelled surname). If the two names are joined with a hyphen, it may also be called a hyphenated surname.

Feb 2, 2003 · Okay well logically, what if the child were an infant? They social worker/foster family/adoptive parent…whomever wouldn’t call it bBaby Doe…they’d make up a name.

Oct 3, 2007 · I’ve known Americans who have hyphenated last names because they are from a culture where a person who has two last names, but being in America they are forced to hyphenate the last names because we’re not used to that kind of thing around here. For example, the current Prime Minister of Spain is José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

Dec 26, 2016 · Places are frequently named after people. Usually it’s just the last name (when named for men, that is, which are the bulk of such names; when named for women, it’s usually the first name). But occasionally, they’re named with both the first and last names. I’m looking for examples of this last category. I already have a number of them, especially in the US. Jim Thorpe PA, Jean Lafitte ...

Oct 1, 2016 · I doubt that people chose their own last names terribly often. There was a time in history when people didn’t use more than a handful of first names. There were 10 Richards in a medieval village with a fairly small population, so people referred to the as Richard + descriptor.

Aug 10, 2004 · Later in the 20th century beginning in the last 1940s, when the possibly apocryphal W.F. Fard began the Islamic sect The Nation of Islam that many American blacks – enthralled by his bizarre gospel of white devil white men reversed-bioengineered by mad Dr. Yacub – began to adopt Islam as their religion and reject any form of of their "slave ...

Apr 17, 2003 · A girl at work asked me an interesting question - why do guys (especially in athletics) call each other by their last names, but girls generally do not? I thought up a few reasons, but they’re just guesses. Is there a factual answer?

Dec 2, 2005 · Looking at the names of the Deputies on the Italian Chamber of Deputies website, the following deputies have last names that don’t end in a vowel: Edouard Ballaman Giovanni Kessler Enrico Nan. And of the Senators: Gavino Angius Milos Budin Luciano Falcier Renzo Gubert Domenico Kappler Alois Kofler Lucio Malan Giuseppe Mulas Augusto Rollandin

Nov 28, 2000 · I thought up this question one day sitting around one day and ever since it has annoyed me…Ok so here it goes…When were born we are given a first name. Our last names don’t change. When we marry the girl or man whatever takes the others last name. Or when someone dies without kids they take there name. We never assign last names and if anything they should be slowly dissapearing as far ...

Sep 9, 2001 · When did we get regularized last names, as opposed to indicators of place or profession or one’s parents? Was the switch gradual or sudden? Why did some people have last names as far back as the Middle Ages (Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas More), and others didn’t? It’s strange – I have a passion for history and literature, and yet I’ve never once come across a reference to what seems to ...