We have to take our surnames under control. What's the point of having a particular surname if you're not connected to it or people who had it in any way? If, say, your surname is “Taylor”, and you're not a tailor, then why have it in the first place? Change it to “Coder”! This is how English surnames always worked.

Id like to take the surname of "dipshit" 😀

What did John Hancock do? (other than "your mom")

My gripe with surnames is: Where I live is the majority mexican. Everyone's surnames is things like Lopez, Gutierrez, Rodriguez, Perez, Gonzalez etc........and they put stickers of their names in their cars as if they was the only mfkers with said last names :P

@AleCx04

Yo, caution with the Rodriguez, we are legion XD.

@AleCx04 yep, that’s a bit different. Slavic surnames works the same: Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov are essentially “<firstName>ov”. Ivanov is son of Ivan, Petrov is son of Piotr, etc.
This is how it worked historically in rural areas and tiny villages, when they had 16 or more children per household. The father was called, say, Ivan, so all his children were Ivanovs.
I suspect “ez” in Hispanic surnames means the same thing.
I think Nordic surnames are similar too: Gunnarson, Bjornson, etc.

@kiki

It does. (But just Spanish. Hispanic sounds kinda weird XD)

@CoreFusionX also, Georgian with -shvili, Armenian with -yan and Ukrainian with -enko

At least my Surname is unique in most systems my Personal data is captured.

And with the full length of my name, i indirectly check how they handle long strings of firstname/surname pairs very easily. Its Fun to watch their shit break, with long names, which will sooner then later become common norm, long names for first- and surname.

I share my surname with like 15 living people.

@lorentz there is a village called my exact surname. I’m distantly related to its people. It’s now long abandoned

@kiki Our village is still alive and fine, through it now belongs to Slovakia. My ancestors used to own the village and surrounding lands until the socialist land reform. Recently a distant relative of mine I've never met sued a bunch of families out of their land there to form his retirement fund. That's when I learned about the whole fiasco

In India, surnames promote caste bias. A Mookherjee (signifying Bengali Brahmin upper caste) would marry or sell houses or rent out to only others with upper caste surnames. During interviews you can give up hope if the panellists are all upper caste. They know “what” You are from your surname. You won’t get contracts or legal advice if you have particular surnames, they’ll just refuse or pay you less or charge you more.

They also know your religion and region and mother tongue from this, which are other criteria they use to filter people out.

In many rural schools, you have to wait in line to get water from the water tank in order of your surnames (the caste values of the surnames).

Also, in some places they’ll bash you to death for violating this.

@nanobot

As if capitalist world was any different. Sure, there might be a tad bit more movement between "castes", but it's all the same, except instead of the surname your parents have, it's how much money in their bank account.

One of the worst things in the world is that children inherit their parents’ money and status and the fruit of their good deeds, but not the punishment of their crimes.