What is the most important individual feature of each person? That's right - it's his first and last name. People began to call each other names in ancient times, but surnames appeared relatively recently. How were they formed? By what principle? Who invented them? Of particular interest is the question of who created the funny surnames. Or have they become such only now, and previously sounded quite normal? We will try to find answers to these and other questions today. It is quite possible that, considering this topic, we will laugh heartily!
The history of surnames in Russia
Different peoples of the world at different times formed the main distinctive features of each person. In Russia, for example, surnames began to appear in the XII-XIII century, but in Europe they began to spread much earlier.
Peter I was the first to introduce such a concept as a “surname” in Russia. Before that, people called each other nicknames, nicknames. They were also called "reklo" and "name". In the decrees of the king regarding the censusof the population of a certain area, it was agreed that all residents should be recorded “by name with fathers and with nicknames”, which meant first name, surname and patronymic.
The first surnames in Russia were received by princes, nobility and boyars in the XIV-XV centuries. Basically, they looked like the names of their patrimonial estates: Kolomensky, Zvenigorodsky, Tver, etc.
Later (in the 17th-19th centuries), servicemen and merchants of the Russian land began to be called surnames. Their surnames also came from geographical names. But not from the possessions that they disposed of, but from the localities from which they were born: Rostovtsev, Moskvichev, Astrakhantsev, Bryantsev, etc. As you can see, the suffixes of the surnames of merchants differ from the suffixes of the surnames of princes. According to them, modern residents with similar surnames can easily determine which lands their ancestors came from.
In the 19th century, the names of people close to the church began to form in Russia. Many of them were artificially created from various words of foreign origin. A significant group of such surnames is formed from the names of church holidays and the churches themselves: Assumption, Rozhdestvensky, Epiphany and others.
As for the peasants, their surnames, in fact, reflected their street nicknames. Sometimes they changed. In one family in one generation there could be several surnames at once.
Many peasants of Russia received their "main names" only after the October Revolution, before that they were nameless.
Modern surnames
Currently surnameshould be in every inhabitant of the planet Earth (with rare exceptions). Most Russian surnames originated from patronymics, but not by adding the suffixes -ovich, -ich, -inich, etc., but in the form of the so-called semi-patronymic with the suffixes -in, -ov. For example, Peter's son is Petrov's son (the resulting surname is Petrov), Nikita's son is Nikitin's son (surname is Nikitin).
Funny last names: whose fantasy matter?
But until now, scientists cannot determine the etymology of such surnames as Danilin and Danilov, Voronin and Voronov (with suffixes -ov and -in). The same applies to the question of how and by whom funny surnames were invented. Why do some people say their name with their heads held high, while others blush when introduced in public? Indeed, very funny surnames can sometimes cause self-doubt of their owners, a real obstacle to success. Fortunately, today the legislation allows anyone who wants to change their name to a more attractive one. But then a person becomes part of the gray mass and loses his amazing uniqueness. How to be? Do funny surnames interfere with life? Let's try to figure it out.
The most interesting names of Russians
Some enthusiasts for the sake of a good mood (their own and other people) create ratings "The funniest surnames in Russia." The organizers of such actions ask the residents of our country to send real stories of people who have come across one or another original surname in their lives. They studyphone books, various registries. They photograph the funny names of doctors on the plates of offices, the names of company leaders, badges of employees of retail outlets in order to confirm the reality of the existence of such people. And then make them available to the public with the help of modern technologies of communication and communication.
After studying such ratings, you can ensure yourself a good mood for the whole day! And let them say that it’s ugly to laugh at someone else’s name, that they only do it in kindergartens, we will do it anyway! Not to offend any of the owners of such a name, but for the sake of a sincere, genuine smile on his face. So, meet unique people in absentia!
List of funny last names: true stories
An employee of one of the commercial banks regularly maintains a register of shareholders, in which more than seventy thousand names have already gathered. Deciding to highlight the most interesting of them, he was very surprised, as there were a great many of them! Such as Tadpoles, Popik and Truffle, he did not even take into account! Among them, he found the following: Kakashkind, Beeliner, Chmyryuk, Tampak, Intraligator and many others. The owners of these names, by the way, are successful people - owners and directors of companies! And their interesting name does not prevent them from living at all - on the contrary, it allows them to always be in the spotlight!
Treasures of phone books
Another company of comedian enthusiasts decided to study the telephone directory of Moscow. And here is their Top Funny Surnames! Among the 2.7 million subscribers there were the following:Blyabkin, Blyablin, Blyaror, Blyakher, Blyakhman, Blyakherov, Bobik, Bobinchik-Rabinovich. By the way, there are not even one such family in Moscow, but several. Martyshkin, Nedryshchev, Zadnikov, Sukhozad, Pupkin, Sivuho, Khernykh, Hernes, Kheresh, Kherenkov deserve special attention. It remains to sympathize with subscribers with the names Zyuzya, Shmal, Shnurapet, Zuduyviter, Zababashkin, Sivokobylenko, Glukin, P altsapupa, Sivokoz, Durnopeiko and Narko.
There are also owners of the names Sharikov, Chainikov, Didus, Gavva, Abebe, Varenye, Gergelaba, Zhuikov, Bobro and Bobik in the phone book of Moscow. No less interesting are the double names: Engel-Mengel, Honest-Khoroshko, Kill-Joyful, Buffalo-Cat, Shura-Bura. But again, we advise you not to be upset by those who may have read their own among these surnames! You are unique, be proud of it! In order to dispel the myth that such surnames interfere with life and success, we present a list called “Funny Athlete Surnames”. Among them, it turns out, there are also lucky ones!
Funny names of football players
Thirty of their owners can easily get into the hit parade of funny names among football players. Mostly they are athletes of foreign football teams. It just so happened that their names, which can be proudly pronounced in their country, sound very funny in Russia. On our soil, such football players will not be able to avoid smiles:
- Steve Mandanda (Olympic goalkeeper in Marseille);
- Ukrainian football players Pavel Rebenok and Ivan Len;
- Cicinho (Brazilian athlete, describing the game of which even the commentator of a football match in Russia smiles);
- Didier Ya Conan (even though this German midfielder loses to Yaya Toure in the number of “I” letters in his passport, our fans still associate him with the hero of Arnold Schwarzenegger in one of his films - Conan the Barbarian);
- Marjan Gad (defender from Slovakia, often playing for Lokomotiv Moscow);
- Kaka (midfielder of the Real Madrid team, with whom Samir Nasri, Stefano Okaka Chuka, Georgy Kakalov can also compete in terms of the ability to make a Russian fan smile);
- Alexander Krivoruchko (goalkeeper of Belgorod team "Salyut");
- Abdullah Durak (midfielder of the Turkish football club "Keyserispor");
- Teemu Pukki (forward from Finland, who is often jokingly called a relative of Joulupukki himself - the Finnish Santa Claus);
- Rafal Pivko (midfielder of the Polish club MKS Dolcan);
- Baba (forward from Senegal, Papa Babacar Diawara, known simply as Baba in his circles);
- Mariusz Popa (the goalkeeper of the Romanian national team, who played in Russia only once in 2008, but thanks to his sonorous surname he is still remembered);
- Adrian Pukanych (midfielder of the Ukrainian "Illichivets");
- Abu Ogogo (previously played for London Arsenal, now a member of League Two);
- Frederic Herpoel (former Belgian football club goalkeeper).
Other funny cases among athletes
Among basketball players, there are also many owners of interesting surnames, such as Dobroskok, Papadopoulos. Hockey fans can smile when they once again hear the names of athletes Kukushka, Robin Stalin, Durka, Hercules.
We have not considered all the funny names of football players and other athletes, there are others who would easily surpass all of the above. But there are generally accepted limits of censorship, beyond which we will not go.
Surnames of other peoples of the world, worthy of a smile
Moldovans and Romanians were especially successful in creating funny surnames. They have residents with surnames: Surdul (meaning "deaf"), Berbeka (meaning "ram"), Kokor (meaning "crane"), Boshara ("pumpkin"), Karaban (meaning "foot"), Mosh (simply "grandfather") and others.
Tatars have Balaban (meaning "giant"), Baknach ("talker"), Badan ("wind") and other funny surnames.
An interesting fact is that over one million Carlsons live in Sweden. It turns out that there is the same common surname as Petrov in Russia.
What other funny names are there in the world? There are a lot of them. What are the Cossacks worth! Among them are Gryzidub, Zasyadvolk, Pomagaybatko, Karaybeda, Nepeypivo, Pidkuymukha, Nebeybatko, Mordan, Rotan, Loban, Drozhiruk, Thripuz, Cross-eyed, Yellow-legged, Blind, Deaf, Crooked, Mute, Stutterer, Bald, Quiet, Affectionate, Honest, Sweet, Dobryden, Nepeyvoda, Vernidub and others.
BUSA has an insurance agent named Chip Munk. If you combine his first and last name, you get a word meaning "chipmunk".
Also in the US everyone knows about the real surname Assman, which means "ass man".
And in Canada there is a resident with the surname Wacko. We would call him Crazy.
Luck or bad luck?
There are such funny cases in the world. Residents of some countries specifically change their surnames to louder and more unusual ones. So they only emphasize their uniqueness and individuality. Therefore, people who inherited an amazing surname from their ancestors do not need to sympathize, they can even be envied!
