Last Names
by Clarke- One of the oldest surnames in Ireland. It was originally O'Clery (which is derived from O'Cleirigh), but was later anglicized to Clarke. It is most prevalent in Cavan.
Definition: Cleric, clerk, or scholar - one who can read and write. During the Middle Ages, the common pronunciation of -er was -ar, so the man who sold items was the marchant, and the man who kept the books was the clark. At the time, the primary members of the literate class were the clergy, which in minor orders were allow to marry and have families. The term clerk eventually (clark) came to designate any literate man.
Clarke is the 32nd most popular Irish surname.
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So, where does your last name come from?
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My last name Matteo Means: gift of God
Some other interesting information I found are as follows:
Spelling variations include: Mattei, Mattedi, Matteini, Matteis, Matteo, Matteolli, Matteoni, Matteotti, Matteucci, Matteuzzi, Mattussi, Mattuzzi, Mattouzzi, Mattevi, Mattia, Mattiassi, Mattiato, Mattiazzi, Mattiello, Mattioni, Mattiuzzi, Mattissi, Mattucci, Matussi and many more.
First found in Abruzzi. In those ancient times only persons of rank, the podesta, clergy, city officials, army officers, artists, landowners were entered into the records.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Jacob Matteis, who arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1741, Giacomo Mattei and Aynese Matteo, who both arrived on the S.S. Vincenzo Florio from Palermo in New York City in 1881, Carmela Mattino, who arrived in New York in 1888 aboard the SS Letimbro, as well as Donenico Mattino, who sailed aboard the SS Alesia from Naples, arriving in NY on March 22, 1893.
I couldn't find my last name on the sites that were made mention of in this forum. However, I know this much. My surname sadly has pagan meaning. It's Irish, and means Church of St. Patrick. Matt's surnname came from the Gaelic name for church, but church wasn't enough for my ancestors. They had to go and reference St. Patrick in the name, as well!
what's gay-lick?
we'll tell u when ur older
KELLY
(origin: Gaelic and Welsh.) A grove, generally of hazel. Kill or Cille, in the Gaelic and Celtic, denotes a church.
DeGasperi-from the latin "Gaspar" (supposedly relating to one of the 3 wisemen who visited Jesus) means "bright or brilliant".
This could help people who have UK last names. It shows the meanings of many of them:
http://www.nameseekers.co.uk/surname.htm
Here's an even BETTER one:
http://www.last-names.net/
I can't find my freakin name anywhere!!!! Do I really exist? Who am I? Help me everybody, help me find my identity.
"You're not gonna find digging through my family tree, just to find out who I am. I don't need to know that I'm linked to some murderer, to live on the same land..."
nice NUFAN quote. I can't find my name anywhere...well, except for 2 places. Check them out:
http://www.bruce.ruiz.net/PanamaHistory/rodrigo_de_bastidas.htm
http://www.engineering.usu.edu/cee/faculty/LuisBastidas.html
--this guy might really be related to me. My family is from Quito and Guayaquil in Ecuador, and this guy got his Bachelor's Degree there.
Ok, Paro was originally the french 'Perraulte', but was americanized some time ago when a great ancestor of mine decided he was tired of americans mispronouncing it...
My mom's parents did that too, and it really annoys me. They had this beautiful Greek name, Stavropoulos, and they had to go and change it to Stevens.
My great grandfather was actually born with the last name Pirello. He was born illegitamate and his parents couldn't afford him so they put him into an orphanage. At the orphanage they picked a name off the map of Italy...Oneglia (it's a port city). So eventually his real parents had enough money and adopted him (yeah I know, how dumb). However, it cost too much for them to change his last name back to Pirello. So the family kept Oneglia.
That's the most interesting story I have heard in a long time. Do you have any more?
Heck yeah! So my great grandfather was in the War, and his gun fell to the ground. The bayonette flew off and hit his commanding officer. His commanding officer was killed and my GG was put on the list to be killed by a firing squad. But Mussolini was overthrown and murdered and my GG was set free.
I also have a second cousin in the mafia.
Hah!! That's great. I'm a big fan of Mussolini.
my last name is Valentine. meaning valiant and strong. variant of Valentinus; the name of more than 50 saints and three Roman emperors.
PHAM : conjunction and reworked for ' POISONED HAM ' .
Back in the 1800's the village of Groianguyn was attacked by mongrols and took the villagers prisoners . Turning them into cooks, maids... slaves.
One faction of the villagers, the cooks, one day came up with an idea to kill all the mongrols. During a feast.. they poisoned all the ham/pork... mongrols ate. died. and The PHAMS were born. Hollla
DRUMMOND
(origin: Gaelic. Local) From Druim, the back, and monadh, mountain, a name of place--the back of the mountain.
hahah!!..kiss me!..I'm Irish!!
heyyyy.....that's my phrase! You have to pay me if you want to use it
Why is it just your phrase? I'm irish too!
hmm, okay...you can use it for free
Thanks!! Wooohoo new pickup line.
i'm printing this comment out & showing it to ben....
Oh that's cruel. Meet him once and already trading loyalties!
i'm a bit irish. but i don't run around saying silly crap like that, lol. i think i like "give me all your money, sucka--i'm irish"
yeah, it's irishmen like YOU who give us that hooligan stereotype.....well, im gonna set the records straight..us irish, are a docile people....nevermind this gun toating roughneck, he's represents a minority
"You'll be tanked like the whole irish nationnnnn...."
Ignore him, Bryan has no idea what he is talking about.
sure i do!
haha, there's two bryan's here...which one are we referring to
That's for you to figure out!
it's you, chump! i'm Brian. YOU are Bryan.
you you you. yes you. and that's that.
what's up w/the comment clones...is there some sorta weird genetic research going on w/this site?..cause this happened w/one'a mike's posts too..i want answers, now
d'oh! i better think of something else to put! i hate when that happens.
My maiden name comes from my dad, hehe.
Actually, Hartzel comes from some freak who knew that kids were call me pretzel or Fartsmell or something stoopit like that.
Hill is from the phone book. that's where my great great grandfather got it from, anyway. whatever his last name was- it was just too long, so he picked a nice short one. charming.
Hill- 1.A well-defined natural elevation smaller than a mountain.
2. A small heap, pile, or mound.
3. a) A mound of earth piled around and over a plant.
b) A plant thus covered.
4. An incline, especially of a road; a slope.
that was an easy one
that was useless. i mean, DUH. how does that relate to a last name. it doesn't.
sure it does...just like clerk: 1.) A person who works in an office performing such tasks as keeping records, attending to correspondence, or filing.
2.) Archaic. A scholar.
....relates to mine
props to dictionary.com!! I love it!
ick. some people should not be allowed internet access. well, i guess no one can stay at the Shamu Cam forever.
it's not shamu cam...its sham cam...get it? It rhymes better that way.
that's ridiculous. why would i look at a whale in 10 minute intervals. i mean, let's get some live action, i wanna see him stopping crime during the day, mixing it up with other female whales at night, keeping the president from dealing with a viral attack on the american public...oh wait, i'm confusing it with 24...
My last name is Giaimo. The most likely theory as to the origin of the name is that it is a corruption of "di Giacomo" which means "(son) of Jacob". It's a fairly rare name from Sicily.
Actually "di Giacomo" means (son)OF JAMES Of Jacob would be "Di Giacobbe"
But James and Jacob are actually the same name. (Well, they're both derived from the Latin Jacobus, anyway.)
Well according to This Website The Latin Jacobus is for James which is Giacomo, but it mentions that Jacob comes from Jacob, not Jacobus. Yet when looking it up further James is taken from a form of Jacob, YET in Italian there is a distinct difference between, Giacomo and Giacobbe. ITs seperated like that in the Bible, so it cant be wrong. So when your original Surname is "Di Giacomo" its actually meaning "(son) of James". Sorry for this long posting, I just cant see my name actually meaning Jacob, not that there is anything wrong with that, but James (even though I would never call myself James.... hint, hint PunkPrincess "James Matthews") Sounds a lot better than Jacob. Yet Giacomo just sounds the best even though it resulted in a rough childhood, its got its privelages.
By the way Welcome to Ezabel, I am the former #4, now I am probably off the list and most likely on that list Ian made up for those who were on here constantly but have now slowed down.
You were #9 and have no switched with me for #10
Tymon is supposedly Greek (odd..that side of my family is 100% Irish) and means "Praise the Lord"
Really? Do you know how they got Tymon out of "theon hymneo"? Not that I'm doubting you, (you would know where your name comes better than I), but it seems odd to me.
Well..actually you probably know where my last name comes from better then I! I just looked it up on the internet. Enlighten me!
So, I did a few searches on Yahoo, and, near as I can tell, Tymon is one of several forms of the surname Timmons which itself is a diminutive form of Timothy. Timothy, as you might know, apparently derives from "timao theon" which means "honoring God".
Interesting...thanks!!
Crocevera means "true cross"...i cant find anything on google about it..it's a very uncommon last name..i think the only crocevera's in the US and italy are related to me.
croceveras were a small gruop of roman catholic monks who departed from the church because of it's teachings and created a cultish undeground religion call "Order of the True Cross". the gruop grew secretly, evently losing it's religious beliefs, and the name crocevera remaining as a last name of a small popuilation of italians. One of the beliefs of the croceveras was that if the true cross was found and set up in the place where Jesus was impaled, he would return to earth.
and they will die.
what the heck were you smokin when you thought this one up?
Stambouli.. i think it's italian. there's a WWE wrestler with the last name like mine but he's missing the 'u' and he plays an italian mobster so i'm guessing mine's italian.
Stambouli definatly sounds greek to me. w/o the U it does sound italian...i thought you were greek? that'd make perfect sense.
it sounds the same exact way tho, even with the 'u' in it. i guess it's greek and italian lol.
you can do that with my paternal grandma's maiden name-geswaldo (greek) or gesualdo (italian) this happens a lot because of greeks and italians mixing so much.
huh, that's pretty cool tho.
The "Valenti" family name originated in Vicenza , located in Italy. It means valient, vigorous, healthy, strong. This is a fun site: http://gens.labo.net/
"Il nome CLARKE non è ancora presente nel dizionario." haha
That's probably because Clarke isn't a "nome" it's a "cognome".
what's that mean? not a name, a surname?
Yeah. It's like the French prenom/nom distinction. "Prenom" means given name and "nom" (almost always) means surname.
yeah the neat part about this site is it shows where in Italy there are people who have your last name.
non sapevo che parli italiano!
non parlo italiano. solamente hablo español.
io parlo italiano!
tu parli italiano, ma tua sorella parla spagnolo? che strano. quando hai imparato, e come? sei fluente?
Puedo hablar Español pero entiendo un poquito de Italiano. ¡Sé lo que usted dijo y sé dónde usted vive!
ho paura!!! molto paura!!!
entonces usted es sabio
lo so. e mi puoi chiamare "il signore"
"il signore" jaja mas como "la signora"
bromeo porque amo (hah did i say that right)
i have no idea, i don't speak spanish
eh along the lines of "i kid because i love"
El caballo en la corazone es muy tamboco en la mujer, not to mention the fact that mi madre es mucho poquito in la boca, y, la banyo, Y, tu manzana. Si.
your mom is little in the mouth? is banyo supposed to be bano? you apple? corazon is not feminine, its masculine...............and so much more
ey listen, haha, I haven't been in spanish class for like 4 years...I remember words, & some of their spellings, but as for meanings, translations, context & grammar, I've basically lost just about everything...so lay off!!!...please?..lol
but there isn't any accent on donde...and t shouldn't it be usted dice?
good point i'm horrible at punctuation. i always throw in random accent marks haha. however i was speaking in past tense so no--it's dijo.
yeah, i thought of that....i think the preterite is my worst tense...and dijo can be i say too, right? That always confused me.
yeah ones with an accent and one's without or something? i dont do tenses for anything future or past i used to do---i will or i have .
the easiest way to do a future tense is to say "voy a...."
digo= i say. and it would probably sound better if u said "entiendo lo que dijo usted" (i understand what you said)
thanks adam you always help me out!