21st Century Last Names

[@NameExplain]

What's your idea for a 21st Century last name?

[@natchaos5604]

Already ahead of you bro! I legally changed my name in the early 2000's to "Chaos". Also Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁

[@Lucas-ek2uc]

@@natchaos5604Nate Chaos. Why did you choose Chaos as a surname?

[@Cynderace]

@natchaos5604 2010s cartoon ass name /pos

[@robertfaucher3750]

My last name is an occupational surname! Faucher actually comes from fauche, which comes in to French/Occitan from Latin Falces (don't listen to name sites, the cite a dumb book from the 1800s that claims the name comes from Folchari in German). So it means mower (as in grass; itinerant harvester) or Reaper (as in mower of men).

[@Illumisepoolist]

Like Rebbecadaughter.

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

Your Name: Name Your Surname: Explain

[@natchaos5604]

Nathaniel (or Nate) Chaos. True story.

[@AbdAlHakamJunaid]

lol

[@auldfouter8661]

Mountbatten was an attempt to Anglicise the German Battenburg.

[@FoggyD]

*Battenberg - "Berg" is the German for mountain and "Burg" has a distinct vowel sound in German.

[@stephenreardon2698]

What is more its actually relatively recent, with many British based members of the family changing their surname during WW1, for obvious reasons. Similarly, Windsor was only became the surname of the royal family during that war to get away from the very Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gothe.

[@RandomNonsense1985]

So the Rutles’ manager was actually Leggy Battenburg?

[@user-ih7gc7dt9l]

William Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzwilliam. These are the names of my two fathers.

[@tntrose7285]

oh my god, really?

[@user-ih7gc7dt9l]

@@tntrose7285no not really 😂

[@amandajones8841]

Keith Interesting. Patrick Influencer. Amanda Commenter. Also, we're already reinventing bynames by putting people in our contact lists with context. Steve Plumber.

[@GhostOfJulesVerne]

It's funny how Japanese last names sound completely ordinary when you translate them into English. For example Tanaka means "Middlefield", and Kobayashi means "Littlewood".

[@artemis.nnnnnbbbbb]

yeah obviously, why wouldn't they lol

[@keroppib4ptista]

@@artemis.nnnnnbbbbbfirst names dont

[@RandomNonsense1985]

Littlewood Maru!

[@kenaikuskokwim9694]

This is true of Finnish as well. And there is the notable case of the city called Pietarsaari (Peter's island) in Finnish but Jakobstad (Jamestown) in Swedish. Copenhagen sounds so romantic in other languages, but in Danish, København merely means something like "trade harbour". It's related to the "cheap" in London's Cheapside.

[@artemis.nnnnnbbbbb]

@@keroppib4ptista they don't??

[@theanonymousmrgrape5911]

0:33 Shout out to Tom Smith VI for being his own grandpa.

[@sharonminsuk]

Wow, great catch! 😂

[@GenPicasso_Music]

My head cannon is that Bob's name is Robert Builder

[@jorgelotr3752]

Trivia: the surnames Fuller, Tucker and Walker all come from the same occupation: those who fulled wool (action also known as "tuck" and "walk").

[@sharonminsuk]

Interesting! But yikes, the sound of that reminds me of a joke my dad told when I was a teenager, but it was horribly homophobic so I'm not going to repeat it here!

[@JohnRDVSMarston]

5:59 Okay, who's the brave soldier couple that will surname their kid with "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"?

[@David-yw2lv]

Matheson means Matthew's son

[@EJJunkill]

I love this! My friends and I have goofed around with modern surnames for years...some of our faves: Chipwright Coder Websmith Byt from now on, I shall be Kellum Fitznameexplain!! 😅

[@kurobara9001]

Favorite obsolete job surname: Wainwright Proposed modern job surname: Coder

[@lukeorendorff1293]

Good day, Mr. Coder

[@miniepicness]

Ronald Hax

[@TissueCat]

We may not have wainwrights and cartwrights anymore, but we do have a modern equivalent. Mechanic could be another modern surname.

[@kenaikuskokwim9694]

Occupation: There is a real surname among the Parsees of SodaBottleOpenerWalla, "walla" being a suffix for someone who makes or sells something. Basic: I worked with a guy we called "Basic Bob" because his Slavic surname was just one letter off. Matthewson: Much rarer than Matthews, Mathis, etc, but Christy Mathewson was a baseball star from 1900-1916. Maybe the last male American Christy! That, Laurie, Vivian, and Ginger would *never* go for boys in the US as they do in the UK. Robin was saved by the timely arrival of several famous male Robins over here, e.g., Williams, Ventura, Yount, and Thicke.

[@cennethadameveson3715]

I worked with a guy whose family name was Electricwallah. His family being involved with bringing electricity to their town.

[@Jan_Koopman]

Ah yes, 1 - 2 - 3 - 6 - 5 - 6, the ultimate wat of counting!

[@keroppib4ptista]

what wats are the not-ultimate-but-still-kinda-good wats of counting then?

[@Jan_Koopman]

@keroppib4ptista , the not ultimate, but still kinda good way of counting would be 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6

[@TheRamblingShepherd]

6:00 An interesting example of a name based on a novel American toponym is the character Duncan Idaho in Frank Herbert's Dune. Not only is the word Idaho relatively new to the English language, it appears to have been invented from whole cloth--there don't seem to be etymological antecedents in local Native tongues like many other toponyms. I've always felt this use of a thoroughly modern word as a surname helps sell the futuristic nature of the setting.

[@KubickQ]

Tanner Minecraft.

[@Joel-.-0]

As far as I know, in the US you don’t have to give your kid your last name. Ex: Your last name can be Ortega, but you can make your kid’s last name Rizzardson >:)

[@ilovemyOKI]

my favorite trend is seeing people who smoosh their last names together, like Carlos PenaVega.

[@markadams7046]

At a job I used to work, there were 3 of us who had the name Mark, so to avoid confusion, my boss said she would call me whatever I wanted to be called, so I told her "God" as a joke. For a short time she actually started calling me "God."

[@HalfEye79]

At a sports-club, we had 3 people named Daniel. We solved this dilemma by calling them Daniel 1, Daniel 2 and Daniel 3.

[@BlueManIan]

A recovery group at a church I used to go to had 3 guys named John, so they went by 1st John, 2nd John, and 3rd John

[@takaela]

i would want to shorten "daughter" if i was going to use it in a surname... instead of Jonsdauter (or however the Icelander's spell it)... maybe Jonsdot, or Jonter... probably not Jonghter, though...

[@sharonminsuk]

"-dottir" (in Iceland)

[@qirex3093]

And surname comes from ‘sur name’ meaning after name

[@jljordan1]

I’m quite sure that my last name didn’t come from my ancestors living by the river Jordan.

[@babs3241]

Coder would be a cool surname. Beccason would be nice. "Daughter" is kind of a mouthful as a suffix. The Icelandic "dottir," which is currently used, is just sort of a mouthful that English speakers would rebel against because English... is just not that kind of language. It likes to just hang out and chill. But "girl" could be a thing, probably very quickly coming to "gil" (or "gal," since the intuitive "gi" would be a soft "g"), or "gir"--that "rl" is kind of fragile. It almost needs a vowel before it to before it. "Tomgil" doesn't sound right, but "Tomagil" would be good. Same with Tomgir or Tomagir. Or, since we live in a world where there's a lot of linguistic interchange, it might end up based on, say, Spanish--"hija," almost certainly quickly spelled as "ia." Thomia, Beccia, etc. Or French, which could be unisexed as "fil."

[@okaytuesday]

1:42 so you’re saying to me that Jack Jr. Jackson is saying: son of Jack, where a guy named Jack named his son jack, and then that Jack name his son Jack

[@jeanbellabasura1539]

The Patronage derived names makes me think about the naming scheme in Margaret Atwood's "A Handmaids Tale" where the women in the sex slave class are named after their employer "Ofglen" etc. And of course slave naming in antebellum America, one of the reasons why the boxer, Muhamad Ali, changed his name.

[@BothanJedi]

And yet the original Cassius Marcellus Clay that Muhammad Ali was named after was a hard-core abolitionist who fought against slavery.

[@n1hondude]

I used to work in a call center ance I called someone with the surname "DRINKWATER". WTF. That's the type of video I thought this would be, explaining the origin of "randomly" selected family names....

[@FoggyD]

Was it Danny Drinkwater, ex-pro soccer player??

[@Miloradsfriend]

To be fair, Drinkwater is a last name that has been around for a while

[@Anonymous-df8it]

This reminds me of a joke: "All German fountains share the same artist: Kein Trinkwasser" iirc, it actually means "non-potable water"

[@BichaelStevens]

@n1hondude Omg, it's him! Matt "Drinkwater" Bevilacqua from the Sopranos! Next time he calls you, you offer him a drink of his choice, perhaps diet coke.

[@jljordan1]

I worked in a call center with a dude that had that same name lol

[@FictionalGoogology345]

0:30 You misspelled “IV” as “VI”

[@StuartSimon]

While Matthewson is not common as a surname, it survives in reduced forms such as Matteson and Matson. In some cases Madison may have originated as a variant, but it might have also come from a name meaning "son of the warrior."

[@limo1132]

Bob Rizz actually goes hard

[@lukeorendorff1293]

Imagine if every U.S. president changed their last name to President when they enter office, for example, the current president's new name would be Joseph Robinette Biden President or Joe President so they could officially be Mr. President.

[@magiconic]

Thanks, President

[@markstyles1246]

Somewhere in the past my family lived next to a prominent way to cross a major fence or wall. "That family by the stile."

[@samwill7259]

There is a HARD generational disconnect in generations of my family. Everyone older than me and everyone my age or younger both pronounce it with different vowels.

[@Illumisepoolist]

I wonder where my last name Hicks came from...

[@Superlazerninja12]

For the patronymic/matronymic surnames you could also go the gender neutral route and do something like Stevenskid or Sarahschild

[@notdancooper923]

My best friend changed her name by deed poll a couple years ago and decided to change her surname too because why the hell not. She picked a random fictional character (not even her favourite, she just liked the name) and changed the spelling enough that it looked like a real name. As far as we can tell, she is the only human being alive with that surname. The only other person who may have shared her surname was some Russian dude in the 1890s, and even that is likely a misspelling. It's not even an unusual surname either. It's recognisably a surname and stands out far less than alot of naturally developed surnames do, it's just purely due to the fact that the original name It's derived from was never used as a surname so that particular spelling variation never had a chance to manifest naturally

[@strawberryutopia]

3:25 blending last names is fun. that’s how my wife and i got our last name :D

[@melissahealy1950]

i know a lesbian couple that use the surname mczant they also got it from their own last names

[@Awesoman66]

You give Jack Jackson a hard time, but I have several ancestors, many in a row, named William Williams.

[@FluffyEmmy1116]

1. Emily Cul-de-sac 2. Emily Clifton / Rosemawr 3. Emily Therapist (someday at least) 4. Emily Fluffy (see username) 5. Emily Panem (Actually has to do with a personal discord server i own) 6. Emily Lilithdottir / Lilidottir (my patron deity Lilith) 7. Emily (im not doxxing that much, and my parent's names aren't too modern anyway)dottir As far as names would legit consider using, I think Rosemawr, Panem, and Lilidottir are a nice balance of unique and "passable" as last names. Considering I'm going to be legally changing my name anyway in the near future for gender-based reasons, I'd genuinely think about changing my last name to something like this

[@thewetzelsixx9009]

I'm gonna do this here, too, now. 1. Justin City-Farmwoods (born in southeast PA north of Philly, which is part of what they call the "Megaopolis", but grew up in the south surrounded by a farm in the middle of the woods) 2. Justin Allentown 3. Would have been Justin Shiftleader, but now it would be Justin Disability 4. Justin Disabled (or, and hopefully this won't offend others who are also disabled, Crippled), because Justin Lookslikeacloneofhisfather doesn't roll off the tongue the same way 5. N/A 6. Justin Fitztacobell would have been it for 10 years, but now it's Justin Fitzsocialsecurity 😆 7. Justin Robertson (but I like using his preferred name, so Bobson) or Justin Marianneson

[@auldfouter8661]

Icelandic women actually have surnames ending in -dottir.

[@ArturdeSousaRocha]

These are patronymics, not surnames really. Although many surnames, not just in English, started as patronymics.

[@bandana_girl6507]

The -daughter last names are actually somewhat common, just not generally in English. Specifically, they happen in Icelandic last names as it is common for those tames to still be patronymic. So, for example, the character Riley from Sense8 was originally given the last name Gunnarsdottir due to her father Gunnar (with Icelandic adding the possessive "s" that most English names omit). This also all completely ignores that some other naming conventions would combine both the patronymic with a family name.

[@StuartSimon]

I actually know a girl whose last name was actually Basic.

[@mariawesley7583]

What about punk names? Johnny Rotten, Joe Queer...

[@PabloSanchez-qu6ib]

Great. I thought we had gotten rid of unnecessary distracting animated backgrounds in the animated gif era but they are showing up in youtube now.

[@CassBeWary6]

Me naming my kid Gronk Skibidi:

[@shyguymike]

I feel like that undermines the whole point of family names a bit, personally. How is one to trace his or her ancestry if the name had changed?

[@syria0110]

People are still able to trace their ancestry despite name changes

[@gatlinggun511]

@@syria0110if we couldn’t, you would only be able to trace your direct male line family members

[@StateMasterSubdivisions3795]

Hey Patrick, could you do another Sporcle video where you name the countries of the world?

[@Arturino_Burachelini]

Tom Smith VI is a grandfather to himself 😂

[@thunderkai7272]

Iceland uses the suffix -dóttir

[@AbdAlHakamJunaid]

I am gonna make my family name "Rizz"

[@stephan5279]

Just to the name waiter: In German the name Kellner (german for waiter) is quite common... ;)

[@jimjacobs2817]

Guess what Wat Tyler (one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381) did for a living!

[@tomsmithok]

0:19 hey! don’t show me in your videos!

[@cringeRick_Lamar]

Quandale And I cannot stress this enough.... D I N G Le

[@mingfanzhang8927]

GTA online multiplayer games

[@mingfanzhang4600]

😊

[@mingfanzhang8927]

@@mingfanzhang4600 #KFC #Islam

[@mingfanzhang4600]

Happy birthday 🎁🎊🎉🎈🎂

[@SylviaBounds]

my girlfriend is trans and chose the last name Frost, I'm also trans and chose Thorne, when we marry we'll be Frost-Thorne 💜

[@Reirek]

The KZbinr smallant’s surname is Minecraft

[@EagleDuality]

Very Good. :)

[@mingfanzhang4600]

😅😅😅

[@mingfanzhang8927]

😊

[@mingfanzhang4600]

@ #KFC

[@mitchyrosa]

Patrick Miami sound like a corn star name

[@EGSBiographies-om1wb]

122nd

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

I liked but still shows zero