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As long as we can remember. People probably started having last names 700-400 B.C.
Most people only had a single name. And names were often repeated. So it got confusing when there were lots of Johns or Marks or other repeated names.
In order to differentiate one John from another, they used something about the person that identified which John. The arrowmaker was John Fletcher. And John of the Meadow, or John the Smith, or John of the Blackwood. And of course these were done in different languages.
so that you could tell your famiy apart and for when at school if you had the same name as someone else your last name told you apart
Most people only had a single name. And names were often repeated. So it got confusing when there were lots of Johns or Marks or other repeated names.
In order to differentiate one John from another, they used something about the person that identified which John. The arrowmaker was John Fletcher. And John of the Meadow, or John the Smith, or John of the Blackwood. And of course these were done in different languages.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 9y agoLoosely utilizing the focus of time, it could be easily argued that a lack of creativity caused a wide variety of world cultures to severely deplete the pool of personal, or given, names. However, on at least one other hand, they perhaps valued familial connectivity, and therefore honored that- with surnames.
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∙ 10y agoWomen have been taking men's names since as long as there were names to take. When women were seen more as property than people, a man would want her to take his name to further tie her to him and ever since it's been a cultural tradition. In fact, in 1857 when Lucy Stone kept her maiden name this was seen as revolutionary and furthered the women's right movement.
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∙ 14y agoNative American tribes made up their last names based on where they lived and what they did and stuff like that.
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∙ 11y agoI believe last names originated during the Zhou Dynasty but I'm not totally sure.
Hope this helps a little!
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∙ 10y agoMost researchers would simply say "the Middle Ages", but surnames have been discovered as far back as the year 500 A.D.
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