Is there a website where I can find out what my last name means? If so, what is

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Is there a website where I can find out what my last name means? If so, what is it?

So yeah.. any website that you know of that's reliable would be nice =) also if you just know what the name Poetz means you could say that, although I doubt ne one will

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hi Ashley,
I took a look at Ancestry.com and looked at the New York Passenger Lists 1820-1957 and found that nearly all Poetz immigrants listed their place of origin as Germany or Prussia. There were a couple listed as being from France. I also looked at the census records and it seems that most of the foreign born people named Poetz were from Germany.
If you go to the Mormons website at www.familysearch.org you will see that their information seems to support these facts.

I went to freetranslation.com and their doesn't seem to be a literal meaning for Poetz. German family names most often derive from given names, occupational designations, bodily attributes or geographical names. Hyphenations notwithstanding, they mostly consist of a single word; in those rare cases that the family name is linked to the given names by particles such as von or zu, they usually indicate noble ancestry.

I hope this helps