considering its the most common name in English speaking countries you would assume its been around for a very long time.. was there aristocracy with this name or has it survived so long because smiths were vital to the war efforts of English speaking nations and didn't tend to see combat?
it makes sense that nations would not require their weapon smiths to fight as they would have logistical issues with providing weapons to their armies.. Is this why the surname smith has survived in such an over proportional way than other surnames?
on top of this, has there been any famous historical aristocracy with a surname equivalent to smith or is it a purely working class surname?
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Edit: thanks for the answers everybody Murphy I believe is the consensus here
My last name isn't great, but his is hilarious and horrible. I hate the patriarchal overtones of being passively passed from one man to another, like a sack of potatoes, but I'm not sure if any of the usual workarounds are going to be of much help to this complex conundrum...
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He's a family namesake and actually quite attached to his amazingly unfortunate surname (though sweet and compromising in most other things).
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His family is kind, welcoming, and pretty involved in our lives, so I think they might take it as a slight if I don't do the traditional thing and just take The Worst Name.
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Any kind of hyphenation sounds incredibly clunky.
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I can't think think of any workable mixture of the last names - and I have TRIED.
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And while I'm not overly keen on my maiden name, it's my name, just like his name is his: why is it fair that only one of us has to 'leave' our old family to start a new one?
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Finally, I can't just keep my maiden name as a middle name, because I already have two of those and they're sentimental. I just cannot deal with four first names (Jane Jean Jenny Doe Smith is a bridge too far for me)!
HELP. What would you do?
Are they as popular outside of the US?
Got the Spanish name wrong in the title cuz of an earlier draft, it's actually Garcia, not Lopez
Hello. Coronavirus has left me with lots of time to think, and so I wondered this past week which common surname has the best players in Football Manager?
So naturally I decided to make a whole team of them to test it out. In fact I did it five times.
I looked up the most common surnames in five major European countries:
- England - Smith
- Italy - Rossi
- France - Martin
- Spain - Garcia
- Germany - Muller
Then I created a fantasy team in the second division of each league and filled it as best I could with only players with those surnames, to see if having a team full of Smiths or Mullers is actually a key to success.
They all play what tactic the assistant manager sets for them, and replace teams with enough of a budget to ensure I could grab the best players with those surnames.
So here we go.
Smith FC
I had high hopes for the Smiths. There are more than 280,000 people with the surname Smith in the UK, which is only 80,000 less than the population of Iceland and they do alright at football.
The Smiths FC team only cost about £35 million in total, most of that taken up by the handful of Smiths in the Premier League.
Bit cheeky with the double-barreled named but let's live a little
Unfortunately during the holidaying process I got sacked and a new manager brought in some non-Smith players to the team. After a full season team Smith finished 7th in the Championship, with striker Sam Smith - who scored 17 goals - and right back Adam Smith performing particularly well.
Not a bad showing from Smith FC
Calcio Rossi
Rossi is the name of at least 45,000 families in Italy, narrowly ahead of names like Russo, Ferrari, and Esposito.
The Rossi squad costs so much less than Smith FC, and I only need £2.71 million to assemble a decent-sized group of players. Alessandro Rossi from Lazio is the only standout name here and he’s barely Series B quality. I think they may struggle, so I chuck Calcio Rossi in Serie C rather than Serie B in case I risk the ol’ firing again/
Calcio Rossi does… Okay in Serie C. They finish in 8th, nab themselves a playoff place and then fail to win it
... keep reading on reddit ➡Nothing effeminate like Murphy or Jackson or Williams. And nothing girly like Robison or Mason or Lee.
Something only a man would have as a last name please. I like Smith, its pretty buff but I think its really common.
Do you think “Manly” as a surname would be too obvious? What about Steelrocks?
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