Rare surnames - is it good or bad? The rarest surnames in Russia and in the world

The surname is a generic name, passed on from generation to generation, most often in the male line. It indicates the person's belonging to a particular family or family. This is a distinctive "sign" of one person from another. But some of the names are so popular that, not knowing the date of birth, you can not even find the person you need. Well, at least Ivan Ivan Ivanovich. According to statistics, in Russia alone, more than a thousand people live with this name. The situation is quite different for people who have rare surnames. Here they are definitely not confused with anyone. But just how is it for them - good or bad?

From the history

In Russia, the names appeared relatively recently. For the most part, they came from the nicknames of people who gave them by type of work or place of residence, and patronymics (by the name of one of their ancestors). Well, for example, there lived a man named Ivan, his son was Ivanov's son. Hence this well-known surname appeared. Or this option: a person lives near the settlement (or in itself) Beloozero, then it is Belozersky.

Approximately in the 14th century, the names of the people of Veliky Novgorod began to appear, which, most likely, took this custom from the Lithuanian principality. Subsequently, they became "acquire" Moscow princes and boyars. The rest of the population of Russia did not have a surname until about the middle of the 19th century. By the way, all this time they were transmitted exclusively by inheritance, and only through the male line. And women did not have this right at all. And only after 1891, after the abolition of serfdom, this distinctive feature was already absolutely for every peasant. Finally, the process of formation of surnames was established closer to the middle of the 20th century.

Is it easy to live with them?

In part, no. Many believe that the owner of a rare name should be proud of it. But in practice, the opposite is true. Most people are even shy about their names, since, in general, they do not sound very nice, which brings the owners a lot of problems. Imagine, at the lesson, the teacher says: "Balda will go to the board." In the classroom there is laughter and the child is offended. Or, for example, a sign on the office of the director of an enterprise: "Khvostik Alexander Alekseevich." And this is not the most offensive surnames. That's why many people with rare surnames want to change them. Fortunately, there is such an opportunity in our country. It appeared in the early 30-ies of the last century. The number of queues in the passport office since that time has doubled. A lot of cacophonous names have been changed. Then their number decreased by half.

The rarest surnames in the world

Oddly enough, some people do not just do not want to get rid of this kind of personality, but they also invent it themselves. In this distinguished resident of San Francisco. In order to be the latest in the telephone directory, he took himself a surname, which in Russian is read as Sisszzzzza, and in English - Zzzzzzzzzra. It is even recorded as the rarest in the whole world. Although in Britain, too, there is a lady who has a very unusual name - Maud I. Aab. She, as well as Zzzzzzzzzra, claims a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

Trizhdzhaena reda znameni - "sports" surname, owned by a boxer who lived in America, but had Russian roots. Unfortunately, she did not help him achieve tops in world sports.

Also abroad you can find quite a few surnames, which in translation into Russian mean: Sport Cavalcade, Hard Football Victory, International Conflict, Superfast Cement, Chicken Paw.

And what about us?

The rarest surname in Russia belonged to a Soviet gymnast. Moreover, it was also the longest. Judge for yourselves: Archinovolocoterepopindrikovskaya. As lovers of Soviet sports said, I praised the professionalism and endurance of the leading, who called this gymnast to speak!

Let us cite some more unusual examples. And even though they are not the rarest names, they nevertheless cause a smile. So: Good-day, Trouble, Kuzya, Doll, Manduk, Kuku, Zhulikov, Frying pan, Oridoroha, Nepeivoda, Krutiporokh, Kukish, Water, Non-Paper, Yesterday, Zacheshigrivu, Pumpkin, Khvataymukha, Grozny, Sausage, Ubeikon, Accountant, Kafta, Dolphin, Ubeyvolk, Zavavisvechka, Blyabkin, Kakashkind, Tampak, Trufel, Mukhomor, Pesik, Wild, Kotik, Zadnikov, Heresh, Obzhorin, Onaniziev, Hernes, Sivokoz, Mudel, Zababashkin, Shmal, Zhabonos, Glukin, Yablonko, Zabavik, Schnurapet, Pava, Tsalui, Worker, Okolokulak, Nit, Obedkov, Bilainer, etc.

Unusualness is the backbone of the West!

We present you some more rare surnames (foreign). List:

• Suck - in translation means "phallus".
• Deaft - "death."
• Gotobed - if it's our way, then it's "go to bed."
• Bottom - the "back".
• 1792 - this is one of the rarest and original surnames, which was in one couple in France. Do you know what it means? You would never guess! This is the ordinal number of the months in which their children were born.
• Orellana-Plantagenet-Tollmash-Tollmash - a man with this name lived in the UK.
• Gediminayte-Berzhanskite-Klausutayte - in fact, it is several princely ancestral births of a resident of Lithuania.

And do all the letters fit?

It turns out that there are also surnames that can not be written in the forms of documents. They simply can not fit there! This problem was faced by a resident of the State of Hawaii, who after marriage received an addition to the personal name Keihanaikukaukahihulikehekahaunaele. The fact is that in most forms of questionnaires of this state, you can only enter 34 letters. There are 35 of them in her surname, and the name must be defined somewhere. Because of this, the woman had many problems with the authorities during the receipt of various documents. She was constantly offered to change her surname to a maiden name or at least to shorten it. But in memory of her dead husband, she did not agree to this.

Another long and not that rare, but also the only surname that more resembles a set of syllables for working on the keyboard, is the following: Napu-Amo-Hala-Ona-Ona-Aneka-Vekhi-Vekhi-She-Khiva-Nena-Vava -Onka-Kahhe-Hea-Leke-Ea-On-Nei-Nana-Nia-Keko-Oa-Oga-Van Ica-Wanao. Her poor possessor, a young Hawaiian resident, had been tortured with her already in her school years. A set of syllables simply did not fit in a class magazine. Parents flatly refused to change the name for one reason only: if you translate it into Russian, then it will sound like this: "A lot of beautiful mountain and valley flowers fill Hawaii in width and length with its fragrance." Well, is it possible to refuse such a miracle?

Brevity is the soul of wit!

More recently, an unusual study was conducted in the United States. It showed that practically all the letters of the alphabet are used in the surnames of residents. The exception is only Q. And in the Department of Health of England recorded the rarest surnames, in which there is only one letter. For example: B, J, N, O, A, X. Yes, there is nowhere to be shorter.

By the way, today the rarest surname in Russia also consists of one letter (or syllable): E, O, Yu, An, Yang, To, To, and so on. And their owners are not really in a hurry to change them.

What's in a name?

It turns out that not only surnames can be rare. The same thing happens with names. So, for example, in 2002 in the capital of our country parents called their son very unusual. His name sounds like this: "The biological object of the Human Voronin-Frolov, born on June 26, 2002". Many were wondering how they would call it abbreviated.

Very rare names in some cases can play into the hands of their owners. Many people became famous for the whole world thanks to them. But most still try to get rid of their rare and unusual names and surnames, since they only cause them inconvenience both during their reading and writing. Not to mention the smirks.