where did the last name smith orignate from?
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From the profession of black smith
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Ciro Esposito. It's one of the most popular Napoletano first names combined with the most prolific Napoletano last name. Esposito in Napoli (Naples) is just like "Smith" in the U.S. It would be a common name in Naples, but a unique one here!
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The Englishman, Captain John Smith (of Pocahontas fame!)..;
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Do a search under your own name in Google or Dogpile. Put your name in quotes: "joe smith"
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surnames, actually stem from the a person's title for royalty, and for other people it would come form their occupations, ex. Bob the Smith, of John the Taylor, and their family would be associated by the father.  over time it just caught on and surnames would evolve and transformed into what they are today
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In many cases last names derived from what people did for a living. Imagine a village where several men named "John" live. In conversation, you might distinguish between one John and all the others by saying "John The Blacksmith", or "John The Baker". Eventually, human nature being what it is, people would drop the "The", and you'd be left with "John Blacksmith" and "John Baker".\n\nAnother way last names came into being was as a method of indicating lineage or parentage. "John MacDonald", in Scotland, used to literally mean "John, son of Donald."
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NAISA has this one right, it's Harris.  You can see this in credit information at IMDB, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1733488.  She was born to Carlton Clay Harris (not to be confused with Carlton Banks) and Jackie Smith.
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How about Cockburn? Seriously! (pronounced ' Coburn') LOL\nFuchs. Ok, so they are were surnames. But WTF?\nI would change it instead of passing down the name!
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"and your last name?"
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Germany\n\nhttp://www.last-names.net/surname.asp?surname=Arnold
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"Oll Korrekt"\n\nAllen Walker Read wrote six articles in the journal American Speech in 1963 and 1964 on the origins of the word. He dismissed the Choctaw origins as mythic folklore, emphasizing the possibility that "OK" arose as a cute abbreviation.\n\nHe believed the word to be short for any of several different spellings of "all correct", including "Oll Korrect", "Orl Korrect", and "Ole Kurreck". There was a fad in the 1830s and 1840s involving the intentional misspelling of common phrases, and referring to them by the resulting initials. These may have been influenced by the Low German phrase "Oll klor", which would have been spoken by emigrants from Northern Germany. The fad included many other briefly popular abbreviations such as OW, "oll wright" (all right) and KY, "know yuse" (no use), none of which has survived. The first recorded use of "OK" in this sense was in the Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, in the following passage (mostly probably written by editor Charles Gordon Greene):\n\n        The above is from the Providence Journal, the editor of which is a little too quick on the trigger, on this occasion. We said not a word about our deputation passing "through the city" of Providence.—We said our brethren were going to New York in the Richmond, and they did go, as per Post of Thursday. The "Chairman of the Committee on Charity Lecture Bells", is one of the deputation, and perhaps if he should return to Boston, via Providence, he of the Journal, and his train-band, would have his "contribution box," et ceteras, o.k.—all correct—and cause the corks to fly, like sparks, upward.\n\nRead discounts evidence of earlier popular origins of the word; for instance, a Boston businessman used it in a daily journal in 1815, but Read argued in context it does not seem to be used in the sense of "okay, good".\n\nSome have claimed U.S. President Andrew Jackson invented OK as an abbreviation of "Oll Korrect"; it is possible that Jackson used the term, since it was in currency towards the end of his life. Jackson may also have known the similar Choctaw word (see below).\n[edit]\n\nGreek Language\n\n"O.K." is the abbreviation (spelled correctly) of the Greek expression,Ola Kala (Ολα Καλά, ΟΚ) It is a standard expression in Greece that simply means: "Everything's fine". Some teachers still use it to mark good school papers with.\n\nThe abbreviation "OK" was informally used to communicate the "All's well!" (with light or other means) with shore or other ships . Also, for the Captain of a ship, hearing the Ola Kala was a quick way to take stock of a situation. OK did not however signify acquiescence to a command, as in: -“Do this! -“OK!” The expression En Taxe, meaning “in order” would have been used in that case.\n\nOK was also marked on shipping crates after inspection to signify that everything in them was all right. It is possible that port communities worldwide came in contact with "O.K." thus. Throughout history, the Greek presence on the seas has been disproportionately large compared to the size of the country. The current (2006) Greek merchant fleet, for example, is larger than both US and Japanese fleets combined.\n[edit]\n\nChoctaw Language\n\nIn the Choctaw language, there is a word "okeh" with the same meaning and pronunciation as American usage; Woodrow Wilson, among others, used this spelling to emphasize the Native American origins of the word. The Choctaw language was well known as a lingua franca of the frontiersmen of the early 19th Century, including eventual American Presidents Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison.\n[edit]\n\nAfrican Origins\n\nAnother plausible etymology for "okay" is the suggestion that the expression may have entered North America along
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parents were Mary and Emmitt Smith
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How about some of the following names that have been quite proud about making their British lineage/ heritage known\n\nSteve Thomas (born in England)\nSteve Smith (born in Scotland)\nBryan McCabe\nBrendan Shannahan\nShayne Corson\nGlenn Healy\nRyan Smyth\nPat Quinn\nGlenn Anderson\nBobby Clarke\nDonald S. Cherry\nEric Lindros\n\nThere is probably a ton of others that I am missing but those listed immediately jump to mind.
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Mr. & Mrs. John Smith or John & Mary Smith
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http://www.last-names.net/ easy enough eh? looks promising so good luck... ^___~
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http://www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/SurnamesLists.html\n\nI think this is what you mean!\nHope so!
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The name itself comes from England.  \n\nIn the United States, the family name is generally attributed to one of the pilgrim passengers of the Mayflower in 1620.  He became a successful merchant in the Cape Cod area and had 11 children.  There is a genealogical society dedicated to him entitled The Pilgrim John Howland Society.  His descendents are now spread throughout the world.