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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Want to know Last Name "WION" is that Chinese?????

Posted: 10/13/2005 2:03:43 PM EDT

want to know
Person Last name "WION"
what kind of last name is that??? possiblely chinese? or something else?? anybody know?

Posted: 10/13/2005 2:08:04 PM EDT

[#1]

Welsh

Or possibly Norman English, or German.
The German and Norman seems to be first names, but they often morph to surnames.

The Welsh is an original surname.

Posted: 10/13/2005 2:09:45 PM EDT

[#2]

Posted: 10/13/2005 2:21:31 PM EDT

[#3]

Definitely not Chinese.

Posted: 10/13/2005 2:23:28 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Welsh

Or possibly Norman English, or German.
The German and Norman seems to be first names, but they often morph to surnames.

The Welsh is an original surname.

+1.

I knew a guy named "WANN" who was of Welsh descent. "WYNN" is often Welsh or Scottish in origin.

Posted: 10/13/2005 2:56:21 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
I knew a guy named "WANN" who was of Welsh descent. "WYNN" is often Welsh or Scottish in origin.

And with spelling being optional until Ellis Island, it is a short jump between them.

Posted: 10/13/2005 2:58:21 PM EDT

[#6]

Fuddanese.

It means "Lion"

Posted: 10/13/2005 2:59:30 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I knew a guy named "WANN" who was of Welsh descent. "WYNN" is often Welsh or Scottish in origin.

And with spelling being optional until Ellis Island, it is a short jump between them.

Whad'ya mean "until"? I'd say that at least half of the misspellings and misinterpretations of immigrant names were a direct result of the overwhelming workload of the cooks stirring the melting pot.

Posted: 10/13/2005 3:00:16 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Fuddanese.

It means "Lion"

Oh, fuck, man! That's some pretty funny shit, there!

Posted: 10/13/2005 3:02:05 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
I knew a guy named "WANN" who was of Welsh descent. "WYNN" is often Welsh or Scottish in origin.

And with spelling being optional until Ellis Island, it is a short jump between them.
Whad'ya mean "until"? I'd say that at least half of the misspellings and misinterpretations of immigrant names were a direct result of the overwhelming workload of the cooks stirring the melting pot.

I meant that the names were frozen at Ellis Island, so they were free-form until then.
My last name went from boumpasse to bump, but not at Ellis; it started in Plymouth, Mass in the 1600s.

Larry

Posted: 10/13/2005 3:07:13 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
I meant that the names were frozen at Ellis Island, so they were free-form until then.
My last name went from boumpasse to bump, but not at Ellis; it started in Plymouth, Mass in the 1600s.

Larry

I see. Thanks for the clarification. There are about 6 or 7 obvious variations on my last name, English in origin, and probably several more if I were to consider the variations with "In-" as a prefix. It doesn't take much of a stretch, in that sense, to get from "Goldsberry" to "Inglesby" and then to "Ingalls", for example.

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