What is the most important individual characteristic of each person? That's right - this is his name and surname. People began to call each other names in ancient times, but the names appeared relatively recently. How did they form? 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, but previously they sounded quite usual? We will try to find answers to these and other questions today. It is possible that, considering this topic, and we laugh heartily!
History of surnames in Russia
At different peoples of the world at different times, the main distinguishing features of each person were formed. In Russia, for example, surnames began to appear in the XII-XIII century, but in Europe they began to spread much earlier.
The first to introduce such a concept as “surname” in Russia was Peter I. Before that, people called each other nicknames, nicknames. They were also called “reklo” and “nickname”. In the decrees of the king regarding the census of a certain locality, it was stipulated that all residents should be recorded “by name with fathers and nicknames”, which meant first name, last name and patronymic.
The first surnames in Russia were received by princes, nobles and boyars in the XIV-XV centuries. Basically, they came from the names of their estates: Kolomensky, Zvenigorodsky, Tverskaya, etc.
Later (in the XVII-XIX centuries), servicemen and merchants of the Russian land became surnames. Their surnames also came from geographical names. But not from the possessions that they owned, but from the localities of which they were: Rostovtsev, Moskvichev, Astrakhantsev, Bryantsev, etc. As you can see, the suffixes of the surnames of the merchants differ from the suffixes of the surnames of the princes. According to them, modern residents with similar surnames can easily determine who came from what lands their ancestors were 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 names is formed from the names of church holidays and the churches themselves: Uspensky, 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 several names could appear at once.
Many peasants of Russia received their "main names" only after the October Revolution, before that they were nameless.
Modern last names
Currently, every inhabitant of the planet Earth should have a surname (with rare exceptions). Most Russian surnames came from patronymics, but not by adding the suffixes -ovich, -ich, -ich, 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 last name is Petrov), Nikita’s son is Nikitin’s son (last name is Nikitin).
Funny surnames: whose fantasy is it?
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 goes for the question of how and by whom the funny names were invented. Why do some people pronounce their name with their heads held high, while others blush when they are presented in public? Indeed, very funny surnames can sometimes lead to self-doubt of their owners, a real obstacle to success. Fortunately, today the legislation allows everyone to change their name to a more attractive one. But then a person becomes part of the gray mass and loses its amazing uniqueness. How to be Do funny surnames interfere with living? Let's try to figure it out.
The most interesting surnames of Russians
Some enthusiasts, for the sake of a good mood (theirs and others), create ratings of "The funniest names in Russia." The organizers of such actions are asking residents of our country to send real stories of people who have encountered in their lives with one or another original name. They study telephone books, various registers. They photograph the funny names of doctors on the cabinets, the names of company executives, and badges for employees of retail outlets in order to confirm the reality of the existence of such people. And then they are made publicly available using modern communication and communication technologies.
Having studied such ratings, you can ensure a good mood for the whole day! And let them say that laughing at someone else’s surname is ugly, that they only do this in kindergartens, we will do it all the same! Not in order to offend one of the owners of this name, but for the sake of a sincere genuine smile on his face. So, meet in absentia with unique people!
List of funny surnames: real stories
An employee of one of the commercial banks regularly maintains a register of shareholders, which has already gathered more than seventy thousand names. Deciding to highlight the most interesting of them, he was very surprised, since there were a great many of them! Such as Golovadikov, Popik and Truffle, he did not even take into account! Among them he found the following: Kakashkind, Beeline, 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 bother them at all - on the contrary, it allows them to always be in the spotlight!
Phone Book Treasures
Another company of comedian enthusiasts decided to study the telephone directory of Moscow. And here is their “Top Funny Surnames”! Among 2.7 million subscribers there were such: Blyabkin, Blyablin, Blyaror, Blyakher, Blyakhman, Blyaherov, Bobik, Bobinchik-Rabinovich. By the way, such families in Moscow are not even one, but several. Particularly noteworthy are Martyshkin, Nedryshev, Zadnikov, Sukhozad, Pupkin, Sivuho, Cherny, Hernes, Heresh, Kherenkov. It remains to sympathize with subscribers with the names of Zyuzya, Shmal, Shnurapet, Zuduyviter, Zababashkin, Sivokobylenko, Glyukin, Paltsapupa, Sivokoz, Durnopeiko and Narco.
There are also in the phone book of Moscow the owners of the names Sharikov, Dummies, Didus, Gavva, Ababa, Jam, Gergelaba, Zhuykov, Bobro and Bobik. 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 name among these names! You are unique, be proud of it! In order to dispel the myth that such names interfere with life and achieve success, we present a list called "Funny names of athletes." Among them, it turns out, there are also lucky ones!
Funny surnames of football players
Thirty of their owners can easily get into the hit parade of funny surnames among football players. These are mainly athletes of foreign football teams. It just so happened that their names, which can be proudly pronounced in their country, in Russia sound very funny. On our land, such football players cannot escape smiles:
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Steve Mandanda (goalkeeper of the Olympic in Marseille);
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Ukrainian football players Pavel Reben and Ivan Leny;
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Sicinho (Brazilian athlete, describing the game which smiles even the commentator of a football match in Russia);
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Didier I Konan (this German midfielder, although losing to Yaya Toure in the number of letters "I" in the passport, is still associated with our fans with the hero of Arnold Schwarzenegger in one of his films - Conan the Barbarian);
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Maryan Gad (defender from Slovakia, often playing for Moscow's Lokomotiv);
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Kaka (midfielder of the Real Madrid team, with whom Samir Nasri, Stefano Okaka Chuka, Georgy Kakalov can also compete in the ability to raise a smile for a Russian fan);
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Alexander Krivoruchko (goalkeeper of the Belgorod team “Salute”);
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Abdullah Fool (midfielder of the Turkish football club Kayserispor);
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Teemu Pukki (striker from Finland, who is often jokingly called a relative of Joulupukka himself - the Finnish Santa Claus);
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Rafal Pivko (midfielder of the Polish club “ISS Doltsan”);
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Baba (forward from Senegal Papa Babakar Diavara, in his circles referred to simply as Baba);
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Mariusz Popa (Romania goalkeeper who played in Russia only once in 2008, but thanks to his sonorous name they still remember him);
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Adrian Pukanych (midfielder of the Ukrainian Illichivets);
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Abu Ogogo (previously played for the London Arsenal, now a member of League Two);
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Frederick Herpoel (former goalkeeper of the Belgian football club).
Other fun cases among athletes
Among basketball players there are also many owners of interesting surnames, for example Dobroskok, Papadopoulos. Hockey fans can smile when they once again hear the names of the athletes Kukushka, Robin Stalin, Durka, Hercules.
We did not consider all the ridiculous names of football players and other athletes, there are others that would easily surpass all of the above. But there is a generally accepted framework of censorship, which we will not go over.
Surnames of other nations of the world, worthy of a smile
Particularly successful in creating ridiculous surnames are Moldovans and Romanians. They have residents with surnames: Surdul (which means “deaf”), Berbek (means “ram”), Kokor (means “crane”), Boshara (“pumpkin”), Karaban (means “leg”), Mosh (just "Grandfather") and others.
Tatars have Balaban (meaning "giant"), Baknach ("chatterbox"), Badan ("wind") and other funny surnames.
An interesting fact is that more than one million Carlsons live in Sweden. It turns out that there it is the same common surname as Petrov in Russia.
What other funny surnames are there in the world? There are a lot of them. What are the Cossacks! Among them there are Gryzidub, Zasyadolok, Pomagaybatko, Karaybeda, Non-drinkable, Pidkuymuha, Nebeybatko, Mordan, Rotan, Loban, Drozhiruk, Tripuz, Cross-eyed, Yellow-footed, Blind, Deaf, Curved, Mute, Zaika, Bald, Bald, Bald, Bald, Bald, Goodman, Nepeyvoda, Vernidub and others.
In the US there is an insurance agent named Munk. If you combine his name and surname, you get a word meaning "chipmunk".
Also in the US everyone knows about the real name Assman, which means "ass man."
And in Canada there is a resident with the name Wacko. We would call him Crazy.
