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Last name origins?

is there any websites that you can find out what origin your last name is from?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/defa...

That doesn't always help you trace your own origins, though. To take an extreme example, you could be 15/16ths Chinese or Cherokee or Irish and have a German surname.

You could be German, Hungarian or French and have an English last name, too; lots of immigrants changed theirs so people could spell it.