Marcin Ciura has made a map of Europe’s most common occupational surnames.
The 40-year-old software engineer, from Krakow, created it after he found the most common English and Polish surnames are derived from the same profession.
The UK Independent reports:
“In northern European countries, surnames derived from the word for ‘miller’ are the most prevalent, while there are clusters for ‘landowner’ and ‘priest’ in central and eastern Europe respectively.”
“The most common occupational surname in Ireland meanwhile? It is derived from the word for ‘sea-warrior’. Classic Ireland.”
Yikes.
Read how Marcin did it here
Also: Skinner?
This great map shows you Europe’s most common occupational surnames (The Independent UK)
H/T: Gary Murphy
“The most common occupational surname in Ireland meanwhile? It is derived from the word for ‘sea-warrior’. Classic Ireland.”
– the cheek! I have a good mind to lay waste to their coastal areas and carry their people off as slaves.
The great Irish Sea warriors, who died in their millions in a famine because they couldn’t fish.
Good man Laughter. The oul ‘why didn’t they eat fish during the Famine?’ troll. Good luck reelin’ em in!
Sea warriors, that can’t fish.
Context you clown, context.
Classic Laughter!
I don’t like Tony.
you mean, ‘weren’t allowed to fish’, surely?
That (See Claddagh Fleet) and that fish was a luxury at the time. Fishing required a level of capital investment in equipment that was impossible for the starving. Enough food was being exported to feed a population of up to 19 million at the time though.
Leaving the above comments aside, archaeological excavations throughout Ireland from the Early Neolithic period and through subsequent ages, attest to our preference of large game over fish, and this includes evidence from sites near or on rivers/ lakes etc… Surprisingly, we’ve never really been avid consumers of fish, which is unusual considering we’re on an island.
You reeled Tony in, in fairness…hook, line and sinker.
Haha! Brilliant!
From Sea Warriors to neutrality, triple locks, peacekeeping, anti war campaigns, and other delusional trendy piffle. Where did it all go so wrong?
A few hundred years of military occupation turned the population against militarism, mebbe?
Although given how militaristic this 2016 lark is looking, someone needs to tell the government!
The nautical prowess of our many sea-faring invaders put our ‘sea-warrior’ title to bed.
The prevalence of the name isn’t a testament to how good they were at what the name stands for. It suggests something else entirely.
The reason Smith is so prevalent is because they were never in battle but in the background making the weapons for said wars
so they got all the girls and were able to make the chastity belts as well :D
Does that mean Will ImAm hails from Bosnia?