I wonder why Edit: interesting, this seems to be mainly an English phenomenon, a lot of examples but they are all from other languages. The exception being Biggs, although I've never met a Biggs.

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[–] 4 points 5 months ago

the surname Homan is sometimes derived from old German "hoh mann" which is literally "tall man" (hoh is related to high)

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