Origin of Names - Are these names Welsh, Irish, Scottish or English?
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- čas přidán 7. 02. 2021
- Where do these names originate from? Come watch Nelvin, Petra and Emma guess which name (that Ashley is presenting) has a Welsh, Irish, Scottish or English origin. Does your name have a special origin? Please do share with us in the comments section!
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I'm happy I got all of them right I'm mostly Welsh and Scottish with some Cornish and English in there as well 🏴🏴🏴🇮🇪🇬🇧
Hi American Davis here traced my ancestry to wales ❤️
We learnt the same things with our english lector Wesley here in Pécs at the secondary school english spec. class :)
I am of Scottish, Welsh and Italian descent. But I'm 100% American!!!👍👍👍 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
OoRAH!!
Nice!
Diolch yn fawr (Thank you very much) for including Wales in your list. One slight correction: at 6:48 the name Ioan pronounced with the consonantal form of the letter I in the Welsh alphabet, and sounds like the consonant form of the letter Y in the English alphabet. It has two syllables, pronounced "Yo-Ahn". czcams.com/video/F62Ra3SQJbI/video.html Fun fact: Ionawr is the Welsh word for January. Iona is the feminine form (and my late gramma's name) and follows the same rule. The Welsh alphabet is phonetic like Spanish and Italian, unlike English. Video: czcams.com/video/F62Ra3SQJbI/video.html
I'm interested in tracing my Mums side of the family, Downes, i'm in England but once had a lengthy stay in a Welsh orthopaedic hospital as a kid (born with a disability, cant do that walking thing) and they said its a real Welsh name, but ive also heard its Irish (originally O'Dubhain or something similar) during my family tree research ive seen it written without the E too, Downs.
Is that the best for they could do for Welsh names Davies and Jones? lol.
Any Name with an s on the end really. Like Phillips, meaning son of Phillip. The clue is the s instead of Son....like Jones, Not Johnson. Williams, not Williamson, Roberts, not Robertson
I’m a Davies and Welsh very very Welsh
My father's family name is Lenan originally Lenihan. Truly Irish! I consider myself genetically as Irish!Politically British and emotionally 100% Welsh!
Mc/Mac son Brown and Doherty and Smith are Northern Irish or Ulster Scot/Scotch-Irish(US/Canadian term). O’ surnames are typically Irish. Murphy can be a Republic Irish or Notthern Irish surname.
Son of ioan with an i not an L
Pronounced = Yaw-ann
(like 'Yaw' from yawn and 'Ann' the name)
The name was anglicised when the Welsh were forced to use English as their primary language.
The J in jones may have been chosen to humiliate the individual as Welsh didn't have a j in the alphabet.
More like the pronunciation of the French Yohan edit - only drop the H
It’s because Ioan means John and only Christian names were anglised by putting and S at the end.
There are some exceptions to the rule as there always is with anything, like Richard which in some cases was anglicised to Richards and sometimes anglicised to Pritchard. Depending on how literate the person was, depended on their interpretation and spelling.
So say Pugh and Pew same origin meaning Son of Hugh but Pew would have come as a result of someone illiterate who didn’t know how to spell Hugh or Pugh or Rhys, Rees, Preece, Breese or Price, all son of Rhys but different variations depending on how literate the person was
Yes. The Scottish and Irish names were anglicized too. For example the name Doherty is Dochartaigh.
Why would a Chinese person...know UK..
surnames....wrong person..??
Davies is not pronounced “Dave-eez”, but “ Dave-iss” 🏴
Where is the surname "Childre" from ?
Jones is not son of “Loan”. It starts with a capital i, so is pronounced “Yoh-ann”, which derives from the biblical “John”.
I’m 75% England Irish and my last name is Fay. where dos this last name come from. How did my family get it. The meaning, I believe, comes from the word Fairy, which I think is a little weird, considering that I know that some last names come from a family occupation?
Browne , one of my ancestors names . He was Scottish
The Welsh Davies has a Jewish component. ‘House of David’ or ‘Beloved’…
My Husband's surname is Robbins old way Robyns from Peebleshire Scotland
I wonder what the origin of Langlot is?
My last name is "Leach". I think we are Welsh and English, plus Irish and Scottish.
I just call myself a "Celtic Mutt". Thanks for your fun conversation.
Not Celtic, the whole “Celtic” thing is a lie.
Leach is an “Anglo-Saxon” surname, so definitely not an Irish or Welsh name
@@Penddraig7 Oh well. My mistake. Sorry. Thanks for the correction. Actually my DNA test says that I'm mostly from the Channel Islands, Guernsey or Jersey. I don't know where the surname "Leach" comes in.
@@Penddraig7 Yet most Anglo English people have more native British DNA, or as you say "Celtic thing" which is true. Even 1/2 the people of Germany's DNA is not Germanic, but from the original Celtic and Proto-Celtic tribes.
I read a book years ago and it listed a bunch of common UK names that came from Denmark via the Vikings.
55 million English, as opposed to 5million Scots, 2.1 Million Welsh. So if they are all thrown into one, the English ones would be most common. This is one of a vast amount of reasons Why unions of any sort are a really stupid idea.
Where does the name Cunningham come from ?
If my bother was born a girl my parents were going to name him Shannen. And being in high school at the same time 90210 was airing I’m sure he would have been mocked for being named shannen doherty. Lol
How’d I even get the first one right though 😭 and they said it was right for the reason I thought it was.
How about this one: MacCutcheon (Scotland); and this one Richards (Welch).
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What origin the name is McEwan from
Many names can originate in multiple countries!! My surname is English and Welsh!
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I'm Welsh English but mums DNA is danishand descended from Welsh princesmaybe a royal Danish/ Welsh marriage in there.
What about the surname Reid?
You should have tested them on the surname Lee to really puzzle the Chinese guy who tends to mistake Irish surnames for English surnames.
These are anglicized versions of the Scottish, Irish and welsh names.
These...young people have not been around long enough...to know...very much..????
Do you know where the name Lally originated?
How about Ukna
What about Lindsay
Is bird an irish surname?
It is actually for the irish surname Baird
Jones is anglo and welsh and briton
The Earliest known recording of the name Jones comes from England way back in 1279 so why its always referred to as of Welsh origin always confuses me.
Many Welsh names are of English origin including my own, although mine is from the Irish version of Hughes.
The letter J isn't even in the Welsh alphabet and Jones only appeared in Wales after names were anglicised in Wales during the 16th century .
As a Welsh Jones, who is a member of the Jones DNA project, the surname is way more common in Wales, and most of the English Jones are originally Welsh, aside from Cornwall and parts of Southern England. It is was it is.
If you ever go on the run go to and hyde in Wales and change your name to Williams,Thomas or Jones and you'll never get found. 35 % of Welsh people have theses names 800 thousand people and just 3 names
All four countries whose accents I can barely understand
British and Irish are fine. But Scottish and Welsh are the tough ones.
@@liltinglullaby3282 The Welsh are British. The native Brits. The English are Germanic.
@@taffyducks544 🏴🏴🏴
@@taffyducks544 Says who? You'll find the angles, saxons and jutes intermarried with the natives, with some natives outright adopting saxon culture as they're own. That doesn't fit your separatist narrative though does it?
@@Delicious_J My separatist narrative? This is an Established English position. They think they are Anglo and I respect their opinion.
My surname is McKinney is it Scottish or Irish
Jones is of course Welsh but this surname has always puzzled me because there is no letter J in the Welsh alphabet.
Jones is also an English name
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My last name is French. Like literally F-r-e-n-c-h. And I have no idea if it has a French origin.. my Dad’s heritage is Irish / Italian. Any ideas anyone?? Where does it come from?
Names after nations generally come from people who settled in a different nation at some point and were forced to adopt the name of their nation so the locals knew they weren't from there. Look at Welsh and Walsh for example in Ireland. They arose in Ireland but because of Welsh soldiers who settled there.
Not much info on my family's surname at birth, VANDEVERE!
Davies is son of Davie, Davie being a shortened version of David. Same with Davis, son of Davi, Davi being a shortened version of David
Jones means son of John. You said son of Loan, but it not L it’s I so son of Ioan, which is the welsh for John. There is no J in the welsh alphabet, not traditionally anyway, not at the time when anglicised welsh names were being created, they have probably added a J to it in modern times but the welsh they teach these days isn’t even proper Welsh, so it wouldn’t surprise me.
I'n sorry to say you are not correct in saying a name is Irish because it starts with O'. My name is O'hehir and I recently discovered to my horror, that it actually originate in England.
She can't say doherty right
Hello fellow Doherty!! :)
Davies is pronounced Davis not Davieees
MY REAL LIFE NAME IS BRONTE MY E AS TWO DOTS ON TOP
the name Jenkins origin plz ...🤔
Well, its disputed. Both Wales and England claim it. Singular S Suggest Wales and how they adopted surnames. Whereas The English often kept The Son on the names. So Jenkins in Wales and Jenkinson in England.
Diminutive form of John. It's an English name linguistically (-kin is an English suffix), which was adopted en masse in Wales (like Jones, Williams etc). There is probably an authentic English pool of Jenkinses too, but these will be difficult to unpick from Welsh Jenkinses who migrated east over the last few centuries.
Summary - in practice it's a Welsh name, but not 100%. Hopkins, Watkins are in the same category. Perkins, Wilkins, Dawkins, Atkins are the opposite - they stayed English, and most people with those names will be English.
It’s a welsh surname but it comes from a Dutch Cornish origin. Confused? lol, so Jenkins is a welsh surname because it took the name Jenkin and anglicised it by putting an S on the end.
When welsh names (patronymic) were anglicised, Christian names had an S added to them to turn them into an anglicised Surname.
In wales the patronymic system was for example David ap Jenkin, David son of Jenkin, so when anglicised it became David Jenkins. That’s the east part.
The complicated part is, some will say well Jenkin isn’t a Christian sounding name so that can’t be right.
So in welsh, you don’t have the letter J, not traditionally anyway, so Jenkin is not a traditional welsh name. Jenkin itself is a kind of anglicised surname. It’s a Cornish name and it comes from Jen Kin, Kin being the Dutch for little. Jenkin means Little John which essentially means son of John, so Jenkin the name is of Dutch Cornish origin and because it’s son of John, and John is a Christian name, that’s why it’s technically a Christian name and why it’s anglicised from welsh using the S suffix.
So what happened is, someone called Jenkin moved to wales and had a child and that child let’s say David, would have been called David ap Jenkin and when it was anglicised, his name became David Jenkins, so the actual surname itself, even though it had Dutch Cornish origins, the surname is actually Welsh, I hope that helps and wasn’t too confusing, lol
Scotland is my favourite country from the UK!
Me too! No offense to the rest. I just love the highlands.
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How can you talk about origin when you don't know what the tru colour is . Drop the dragon
Connor me the me name