This does not apply to Flanders btw, where we just have normal surnames like “Vandevelde” (from the field), “Vandenbossche” (from the woods), Vlaeminck (Fleming) or ‘Desmet’ (the smith).
Or “Dezeugstecker” but don’t ask me what that means, actually nobody wants to know, forget about it…
You forgot Naaktgeboren (Born naked), Keizer (Emperor), De Koning (The King) etc etc
Bullshit! I havenever encountered any of these “common” names…
Naaktgeboren (born naked), Poepjes (shits) or Zonderland (owns no land) woud be examples
The kingship with the belgians is evident here
Donderwinkel. Fucking legend.
I think he meant De Graaf (“the count”). Dodeman is more common in Normandy than in the Netherlands, not sure where he got that one from.
When the napoleonic officer came to establish the cadastre in the southwest of France, they didn’t speak occitan. They asked for places’ names to the locals who thought they were asking for a description of the place. I now live near the “fountain’s fountain”, the “street of the street” and my personal favourite : the “Nobody’s fountain”
“We Hebben Een Serieus Probleem” is right there with the “Strange looking blokes” meme!
We have the same word for nobody in German
This is too funny to be true.
Ngl, some of these go hard
you forgot to mention all the lewd/scatologic ones. I had two teachers named Ickrot and Vanneuken, I know someone named De Vrij, and so on
1811? How did they not have surnames until 1811? That’s not that long ago. I don’t understand this logistically.
There is a local politician called Slettenhaar (Sluthair)
A girl in my high school had Boobs as her last name, simple but elegant
There is an endless list of bizarre last names, you encounter them regularly. Although not quite the names in the picture.
Same goes for the German Jewish population. Can’t say for sure if this is 100% accurate, but for jews it was not common to have a surname, so German officials gave the meme names like Goldberg (gold-mountain), Rothshild (red-shield), etc.
Imagine these grown-ass medieval German officials giggling their ass off like little girls by making up new surnames and thinking they’re funny
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This does not apply to Flanders btw, where we just have normal surnames like “Vandevelde” (from the field), “Vandenbossche” (from the woods), Vlaeminck (Fleming) or ‘Desmet’ (the smith).
Or “Dezeugstecker” but don’t ask me what that means, actually nobody wants to know, forget about it…
You forgot Naaktgeboren (Born naked), Keizer (Emperor), De Koning (The King) etc etc
Bullshit! I havenever encountered any of these “common” names…
Naaktgeboren (born naked), Poepjes (shits) or Zonderland (owns no land) woud be examples
The kingship with the belgians is evident here
Donderwinkel. Fucking legend.
I think he meant De Graaf (“the count”). Dodeman is more common in Normandy than in the Netherlands, not sure where he got that one from.
When the napoleonic officer came to establish the cadastre in the southwest of France, they didn’t speak occitan. They asked for places’ names to the locals who thought they were asking for a description of the place. I now live near the “fountain’s fountain”, the “street of the street” and my personal favourite : the “Nobody’s fountain”
“We Hebben Een Serieus Probleem” is right there with the “Strange looking blokes” meme!
We have the same word for nobody in German
This is too funny to be true.
Ngl, some of these go hard
you forgot to mention all the lewd/scatologic ones. I had two teachers named Ickrot and Vanneuken, I know someone named De Vrij, and so on
1811? How did they not have surnames until 1811? That’s not that long ago. I don’t understand this logistically.
There is a local politician called Slettenhaar (Sluthair)
A girl in my high school had Boobs as her last name, simple but elegant
There is an endless list of bizarre last names, you encounter them regularly. Although not quite the names in the picture.
Same goes for the German Jewish population. Can’t say for sure if this is 100% accurate, but for jews it was not common to have a surname, so German officials gave the meme names like Goldberg (gold-mountain), Rothshild (red-shield), etc.
Imagine these grown-ass medieval German officials giggling their ass off like little girls by making up new surnames and thinking they’re funny