While the Chinese have been using surnames since 2852 B.C.E., they're a modern invention elsewhere. Europeans adopted them in roughly the 15th …
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The surnames popular around the globe reflect everything from one's ancestry to regional colonizers to occupations. Plus more about names: middle, last, and nicknames.
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Nicknames or "pet names" — shortened forms of standard names — exist in every language and every culture dating back to the first written records. In …
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