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How Do People Get Their Last Names From?

Last names also sometimes called surnames or family names are kind of a recent invention now. When humans used to live in one town for their whole lives and maybe not even ever travel outside their little community group people were probably just known by their first name or given name. In English speaking countries sometimes people took last names related to their jobs or maybe related to where they lived so like Smith if you worked with iron or metal you might have been a smithy that might be the name you chose carpenter Cooper potter shepherd gardener.

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