What does your last name mean?

So in class today, we were talking about the meaning of last names and how they originated. Anyway, I was a bit curious as to what my last name meant. So I decided to see what the internet had to say.

First I looked up meanings of last names on google. That landed me at the website, http://www.last-names.net/".

So here I typed in my last name. This is what I got.

 The son of Hugh. Aventinus derives Hugh from Hougen, that is, slasher or cutter. Alfred, in the year 900, used Hugh to denote comfort. Hugh in the Gaelic, is Aoidh, which signifies affability, a guest, a stranger. Hu suggests the idea of elevation; Ho, Hu, highness.

So from this definition, I can decifer that maybe someone in my family was named Hugh. This Hugh person, could of been a slasher or cutter. Yet it could mean that my late relatives were just comfortable being a guest or stranger that lived in a high elevation and was refered to has Highness.

Bow down before me, I am higher than you. Ha Ha! You little peions!

Okay, Okay, I'm sure it didn't mean that, but I thought it was funny. I just had to share. I also realize when it said Highness, it was refering to elevation and not a position. Cause I think it is spelled different when they are refering to royality. Well, I think, I'm going to go watch some tv or look for a different definition of my last name.

That reminds me there are a lot of songs out about last names. There is Dierks Bently's song, "my last name" and Keith Urban's song, "my last name". Okay that is only two and they are different eventhough the title is the same. Dierks' is happy and Keith's is angry. Dierks is giving his last name to someone and Keith wants the girl to lose is last name.

blueberi posted at 4:35 PM