Anyone that knows me knows I am fascinated by names. Although I may not be maternal I always love playing the name game with friends who are having babies or even thought up names if I ever had a kid. A name is a word that describes a person. From an anthropological stand point it just fascinates me. I always say I should write a baby name book for parents seeking less common names (if one more baby is named Bella or Aidan I am going to scream!). I actually met an author from Montclair whom wrote such a book several years. So I guess my idea of unusual name book isn't original. I've researched thousands of names (The name Lulu which is on my personal name list means "gem" and "love" in two African languages. Jaimie also means "gem" and "I love" in two different languages, pretty cool), but never did I look up surnames.
Friday night I met up with a childhood friend who has been into ancestry.com and she showed me the free link to look up any last name's history. I looked up all the surnames in my own history. My dad's last name and my maiden name does not come up. My married name does and has an interested, well in depth Irish history.
To check out your's go to this link : http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx
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