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Pretty sure that if they're in English, it happened around the time William the Conqueror did the Domesday book, the first census of England.
by 1-more 2y ago
Pretty sure that if they're in English, it happened around the time William the Conqueror did the Domesday book, the first census of England.
- mrguyorama 2y agoBut this was also common in Germany, France, and Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Occupational_surnames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Occupational_surnames So it's very likely it is just a normal thing humans tend to do. Except I don't know much European history so I can't tell if those places got it from England
- 1-more 2y agoright, I'm just putting a date on it for anyone wondering about when it happened in English. I have no idea when people got last names in those countries. Also they didn't have different last names before they got these names, they just didn't have last names at all.