The Yapp’s Family Site
What's in the name? They simply identify a person, or a group, a family, an employment, a tradesman, or a form of identification that identified someone. It distinguishes what they are known as or called that could be implemented into ownership control and legal dealings. Which makes names in use today all inherited names! These names fall into many categories a few listed below: The individual [Personal names] The group of individuals [Names which are relevant as to where they lived or what they did] The property of an individual [Collective names that were given to individuals by their owner, sects, institutions, etc.] The list goes on but they all signify the same thing that the person can be identified, in conversation and in attesting the truth of some statement or event or record |
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Type of names We now know names as first names and last names some known as Christian name and surname. First names This is a "familiar" name that people were given that was personal to them this would identify them in their group or clan.
Last name [surname] This is a name that was taken by the individual to identify them outside of their group or clan, this name differentiated the from others Surnames [last names] loosely fall into four or five categories, that is groups that are identified by the original selected context of the name.
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Names
What are they and what do they mean?
Names and what they mean is an interest that I have had for the last 45 years I will try to explain some of the answers to some of the questions listed above and a few more as this is one of my pet topics I am bound to diversify!
I would like to just clarify at this point that the meanings of names are not in any way to be attributed to Genealogy [family history]. There can be no linkage from the meaning of a surname to your family history.
This section is in the process of being updated and rewritten. CY..
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