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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
Oh so the last name of smith means they were gold/blacksmiths? Can't believe I never noticed this. It's strange because where I'm from last names are basically unchanging markers of your ancestors' jobs since ancient times by which you can also approximate your numerous present customs, why are there so many people in an undefined non specialised lowest scale then? There seems to be much less diversity of last names there than here
gpt
Yeah, there is a lot of profession related surnames. Same with locations, name of towns, and a lot of references to identify individuals with same name. Like John from Cleveland would end up being John Cleveland.