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Recently I have been tracing one of my ancestor's who some other people in my genealogical circle believed descended from a woman with the surname of Mnu.
I don't even know how to pronounce that lol (I'm thinking "new" is the pronunciation).
Recently I have been tracing one of my ancestor's who some other people in my genealogical circle believed descended from a woman with the surname of Mnu.
I don't even know how to pronounce that lol (I'm thinking "new" is the pronunciation).
What are some of the most unusual last names you've come across in your life?
The oddest name I've ever heard of is Shockro, I had two high school teachers by that name. It's Irish. I also have an aunt whose maiden name is Porvaznik, not sure of the nationality.
Two unusual names that come to mind are Cessna (planes) and Unitas (quarterback Johnny). Both are very unusual names; in this country there is probably only one clan of each, with everyone related.
I believe all Cessnas are spelled the same, but there is more than one spelling of Unitas as the name in English is a transliteration of a Lithuanian name.
A name in my family tree is Swiss/Jewish and it's Rebsamen. When they moved to the US, they changed it to Turnipseed of all things. The Rebsamen family in my family tree immigrated to South Carolina from Switzerland in the 1700s. Family lore is that they were Jewish originally but that they converted to Christianity sometime during the Reformation. Whether that conversion was voluntary or involuntary, no one knows.
Someone I know has a last name containing absolutely no vowels.
Many years ago - 1960s or maybe 1970s - there was a promotional game involving bottle caps or some similar consumer product. Every time you purchased the product, you would receive one of more "game pieces" (in the case of soda pop, if you bought a 6-pack, you'd get six bottle caps).
The goal of the game was to collect game pieces spelling your last name.
The CATCH was that the VOWELS were extremely rare game pieces. The expectation was that it would be very difficult to win because you'd need a vowel - which they deliberately made very scarce. (The quantity of vowels they produced was equal to the number of winners they expected.)
One family was able to win a lot of prizes because their last name had no vowels.
I think their name was "Vlk" but I can't find anything about their "win" online.
Mosqueda. When we first met them we were like What..? They explained that in old Spain it meant "keeper of the mosque". Anyway they became good friends of ours.
Penix It's a real name. You have to have balls to go around with a name like that.
I saw what you did there...
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It's a real name. You have to have balls to go around with a name like that.
