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Where's it from?
Hey! I've always wanted to know where my ancestors are from! One of my friend's lasts names is Marchiafava and duh it's italian! I want to know what mine is! It's Knight! Please help! thanks!
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Instead of going to this board to ask your question, you should have gone to the surname board at:http://surnames.behindthename.comBut I'll help you out anyway. :)Knight is a British occupational surname meaning "mounted warrior." The surname could also originally have been a nickname for a worker in a knight's household.There's also a possibility that your surname is Irish, as there also exists the McKnight surname. So, your surname could also be a variant of it. Since the "Mc" means "son of" and "Knight" means "brave", the McKnight surname means "son of the brave."So, your surname is either British or Irish.I hope that helps.Regards,Lu
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Am I reknown?hey carrie does Ty/ty/ah {Tytyah}pronounced Tyty/yah means the twice born and is Amaru a japanese translation of Uriah
what about Ball/enger does it means phyic panther?
am i reknown?
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Another less likely, but plausible, possibility...Any chance your family is of German origin? I grew up near a largely German-ethnic US city and there were many examples there of families whose forebears had Anglicized their German names during the First World War.At the time there was a lot of prejudice against people of "enemy" descent and the easy way to avoid it was often to change your surname to a corresponding English meaning (the German-spawned Brit Royals did this, among others). "Ritter" is one German name that was changed to the equivalent "Knight" for this reason.Like I said, it's much less likely, but a valid possibility.- Da.
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