• iocase@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    I once heard a story of whoever ruled the Netherlands suddenly deciding everyone should have a last name (and the deadline was extremely sudden), so you have a lot of nonsensical names from that region.

    Carlson, Erikson (Xson), Slettenhar (slut’s hair), Naaktgeboren (born naked) .etc .etc where a head of the household just brainstormed a literal shit post last name for their family (a lot of the vulgar ones were made in protest iirc)

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      1 month ago

      I heard it was when France brought the census and they collectively responded with nonsense. Like Fromoverthere.