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occupational surnames (infosec.pub)

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Last names can come from occupations but they don't have to. It can also be down to where the family originally came from (a lot of Scottish ancestry names are like that) or they are anglicized versions of names in other languages. Also words change over time, less than 100 years ago no one would have found it funny to be called cockler, it just meant someone that looked after chickens.