Was Christ a last name? Or Iscariot?

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[–] 5 points 11 months ago

Surnames are a pretty recent thing generally. Ashkenazi Jews only got them in like nineteenth or twentieth century, forced by German bureaucracy — and a lot of the surnames adopted were the person's profession.

Iceland doesn't have surnames to this day — they have patronymics instead. Singer Björk Guðmundsdóttir's last name means ‘daughter of Guðmundur’.

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