Why do Dutch people have funny names?
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
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As a native English speaker living in the Netherlands, I’ve come across some unusual (for me) names. Some Dutch surnames are indeed rather amusing, or even insulting! So much so that a legend has formed around their origin; that these names were adopted in 1810 when Napoleon Bonaparte annexed Holland and forced the population to register an official name. But is there any truth to the legend?
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So CZcams Commentors, what is the origin of your last name?
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And I gotta say, making this video made me acutely aware that a global pandemic (and not seeing anyone outside my immediate family) has really hammered my Dutch skills. My apologies if I mispronounced your Dutch name. I mean I've never been that great at it anyway but I'll use the pandemic as a convenient excuse nonetheless.
mine is he who boils whale blubber.
Son of Joost, I believe it originated from Joost Reinders (Son of Rein)
My surname is Venema, it is Frisian, and locational, meaning 'of the peat bog'. My opa was from Enschede, he and my oma moved to Carterton in te Wairarapa not long after WW2.
My last name means “books eyes”
It used to mean "Honourable" but the South Africans changed it to be "Gerber", a derivative of "Tanner"
As a Dutchie I always enjoy non-Dutch speakers trying to make sense of our language and cultural oddities. Keep 'm coming lad!
I'll have to put my thinking cap on. I don't have any Dutch topics planned out, maybe a couple on the idea board though.
My last name (which Chinese people put at the front) “Chen” literally means “old” which is becoming a more and more accurate descriptor as I age 🤣
Don't worry, old age always starts precisely 7 years older than I am so I think we're both safe.
Name your son Xiao so no matter what, his name will always be half accurate
I always thought that Chen/Chan/Tan meant “Ancient”
Well, this explains your interest in the Dutch. ♥
It's always about a girl
Wow, Jasper, I love your music!
Didn't imagine seeing you under a soliloquy video lol
Congratulations for getting the girl eventually. I hope that she kept her surname or hyphenated yours to hers.
i've heard a similar patriotic origin story for some funny and sometimes quite insulting surnames in Algeria that were adopted during french rule. I guess the French didn't learn.
She did hyphenate, which is usually the way around these parts, so she is actually Moore-Lazy Person. Professionally she still uses just her maiden name because that's what she started published under, and it's a little more unique.
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🤣"M[o]re [of a] lazy person”😆
I like the quintessential Hollandish-ness of my surname, which means something like ‘the pile driver’. It’s an occupational name referring to the poles we ram into the ground in to build homes on in the marshes of Holland
Edit: I can't grammar
My last name, Sanmiya, which is a shortened version of Sannomiya, means three shrines in Japanese.
People usually mispronounce it, but then again, so do I.
awwww that ending
Some of the most underrated content on CZcams. I hope you get the views you deserve and that you find the time to come back to CZcams.
There are also many typical Frisian surnames in the Netherlands, ending with -ma, -stra or -inga. Such as Dijkstra, Abbema, Elsinga.
and -da
As a Dutch person with a very inventive last name van den Heuvel (from the hill) I highly enjoyed this one. Especially the happy ever after part. Thank you for making my day.
Thanks for watching
Also, you're comment made my day so thanks right back at you.
I have a Vietnamese birth name but I use Chinese pronunciation for it when I moved to New Zealand because it's easier and more familiar to English speakers to say. Is that inappropriate? Doesn't matter anyway because I have an English nickname as well. I've had no problem using the nickname since my first English teacher gave it to me. Not until some "woke" New Zealanders told me it's about "perpetuating colonialism."
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It gets worse, when she married me she hyphenated her name with Moore.
@@Soliloquy084 Perfect!!!!!
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Really like your videos. Keep up the great work
I own my Dutch family history on paper way back to 1343. We weren't great pioneers or travelers. It's pretty funny that even today I only live 10 minutes away from where my family lived in 1343. And I moved a lot during my 50 years of life. My last name is Luisterburg.
Original:
Van den Luesterborgh
Luysterborgh
Luijsterburgh
Luijsterburg
To Luisterburg
People couldn't spell properly during those days.
I still got distance family members who's name is Luijsterburg instead of Luisterburg. Only my family line is written with ui. A mistake done by??? Some clerc probably.
"Den Luesterborgh" was a castle/ burcht. They were prominent members of their society in those days. One of them was the "deken" of Antwerp (nowadays Belgium"). They became rich as turf sellers.
Some years ago they found the ruïnes when a company was preparing the ground to build new houses. There it was! The hoeve that later became a real castle/ burcht with an moat 😂
It's also known that the family of Oranje Nassau and the famous painter Vermeer ones visited the castle. It burned down somewhere during the 17th century.
I have only one question.
WHO LOST ALL MY MONEY 😂.
There is still also a small forest that carries our name. It still exists. Again in Belgium.
All people who carries a similar name, Luisterburg, Luysterburg or Luijsterburg are connected to that small village. Partly The Netherlands and partly Belgium. There are no Luisterburg's in the entire world that aren't related. I can show them exactly when all their names changed during history.
I have no children of my own and I was thinking of changing my last name back to the original from 1343.
But I am the last male who carries my last name written as Luisterburg. With me it dies.
You should do a video about that electoral system referendum that NZ had in 2011 and why it failed, similarly to the cannabis video
I'm Dutch and had a guy at school named Dick.
His mother named him well. :)
I know it's been quite a while since your last update and I'm not sure whether you are still interested in CZcams, but I was a really big fan of your videos on New Zealand politics (there is so little quality content on that topic!) and wonder whether you're planning on making a video on the upcoming election this year?
I have already begun making notes for a NZ election video; so I certainly hope that isn't going to be a waste of time! Anyway, I hope I'm able to get back into making videos soon.
@@Soliloquy084, that's seems fun! Are you aware you have some competition in the form of Tui Politics?
I had a Dutch classmate during my school years. Pepps Getjes, or so his name was.
I also a Dutch classmate when I was 7, he was my best friend and then he moved to Australia and I was sad.
This video could have been three times as long. I get the feeling there is a lot more to say about this.
Definitely, but unfortunately I just didn't have time to make a longer one.
I was highly suspicious of the claim that Dutch names were chosen rebelliously and so I found some sources stating that it was myth, but not how the names actually came about. Thanks for the great video!
I used to be subscribed years back, so it's a bit of a blast from the past to see another of your videos. Sad that it's your most recent, but I'm sure you've got a lot else going on in your life besides CZcams.
This video feels like Hilbert has an influence in the script.
Very cool video to watch as a Dutch person. My last name is Brantjes, most people think it comes from brand (fire) jes (small), so small fires, but it's actually from the name Gijsbrant, Brant (name) jes (son of).
Your pronunciation of Dutch names is pretty good :) Still not perfect of course, but a lot better than most native English speakers.
Also, if you know anybody with the same last name they are somewhere related to me as there is only one branch that started from Brantjes (with a t instead of a d)
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Great video!! 👍👍 Brilliant hook at the start of the video…I watched the entire video just to find out whether you picked up the Dutch beauty! 😂😂 Also leant why the Dutch had strange last names 👍
Thanks for watching. I'm glad you enjoyed the hook/frame.
When in doubt, Napoleon probably did it
I always blame the French when in doubt
Lekker video!
According to my lastname Hamann, one of my ancestors was a guy who was associated or worked for someone called Johannes/Hannes/Hans (various German versions of "John") or something like that. When I first started looking into my family name I was prepared for everything but this. It's simultaneously really interesting to see where the name came from but also extremely mundane. Just a dude who worked for another dude. Wow. Much creative.
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Maybe one day I'll find some luck and become overrated.
As someone from Flanders (the northern Dutch speaking part of Belgium) I have always found that Dutch people’s names are rather strange. Not necessarily their last names, but their first names too
So my last name is Philmlee, I haven't taken any DNA tests but I'm assuming my family name is Dutch. We can't seem to find and sort of immigration records here to the US but we can track our family back to as early as 1800, a William Von Buren Phialmalee. Obviously over time the spelling has changed but I can't seem to find any sort of meaning to the name 😄. Anybody have any ideas on what it may have meant? I'm thinking maybe something simple like a bad miss spelling of the word Family lol. I've seen different variations of it while looking into it such as MacPhilmly, Filmly, Filmlee ect..
4:55 shots fired
Look, no point making a mountain out of a molehill, but I still stand that, you can call something whatever you want but it doesn't change what it really is.
One of my friends has the last name "Broekmans"
For those who only speak English, Broek = Pants.
And thus, a part of a wider story of why the Dutch people at that time loved Louis, even after his removal.
I've heard the Napoleon story from a Dutch/German friend. Interesting to learn that it's probably not the whole truth.
My surname is the boring "Green": probably a toponym from someone who lived by the village green. Incidentally, in Ireland, the spelling Greene is more common; in England, Greene is posher than Green. Apparently my granny had a dalliance with a Greene before marrying a Green. Her surname was Waters, also a toponym, probably. Very English, that side of my family.
Yeah, I was a little disappointed too, it's such a nice story though I still wanted to tell it. And at very least there is something to learn from what stories become national legions regardless of their accuracy.
@@Soliloquy084 I live in Ireland. We have more than our fair share of national legends!
I've always wondered how somebody ended up with the last name Van der Aa
The Aa is a river in France, so I think van der Aa means from the river Aa.
It's also in The Netherlands, so more likely to come from there
Oh, interesting. Still one of the funniest names I've come across
Kom vechten dan
What also fuelled the Napoleontic myth is the large number of names like De Keizer (The Emperor), De Koning (The King), Prins (Prince), Hertog (Duke), de Graaf (Earl) but most likely go back to the days of the Dutch Republic (1588-1795) when commoners got much more important and rich than the nobility. The protestant dominance of the Dutch Republic would explain names like Bisschop (Bishop), Kardinaal (cardinal), Paus (pope),
Did you come from otago, or just moved there for uni?
I just went to Otago for University, I grew up on a farm in Karaka. Having moved to the Netherlands, I really should have chosen the colour orange for my channel since Karaka is Māori for orange and the Dutch are an oranje loving people. But my logo is made from leaves and berries of the Karaka tree.
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You have summond the orange tidlewave to lear information we already know. Only comments and likes shall remain in our wake.
It's ok, I like comments and likes.
Veldhuis - field house
I’m Canadian, my grandfather grew up in Friesland. Our name is anglicized to be pronounced Veld-House
my family is from frisia and and we are called wolda idk why tho cant think of anything the my mothers side is called schokkers that one is easy we named ourselfs after our former owned island named schokland after we had to abondon it because floods in 1858 and now a hill in the north east polder floods a problem just remove the sea lmao
Wait, is this where we get the word "lollygagger" in English?
i' ve learnt that the prefic "de" infront of duthc lastnames is a french heritage due to the immigration of french protestants
And was also awarded to families who achieved gentry status, so it can mean both "the" and "of"
Omg that ending was SO wholesome! 🥰
CZcamsrs don't always have to be drama queens, we can be wholesome sometimes too!
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I don't follow any CZcams drama creators, but still, extra wholesomeness is always welcome :)
Ti's a silly place
Especially Amsterdam
Especially the 1980s
If you like silly check out the south during carnival!
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My youtube avatar is a constructed heraldic representation of my last name. I like my anonymity though so I wont say any more.
Fair enough. Then a change in topic. I find it curious that the Crow family crest has roosters on it and not crows, but I guess they do crow so close enough.
Everybody dislikes the French. It's so telling🤣
@Americans see it's 'vahn', not 'van'! And yes, that goes for Van Gogh as well (including both G's). Dunno why this irritates me so much, I'm fine with approximate pronunciations and I won't ask anyone to try our awful G, but at least use the sounds that exist in your own language! (Also Gouda isn't goo-dah, it's gow-dah!)
I think it's normal to be irritated about this type of thing. But remember Hanlon's razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". If people knew how to pronounce a word correctly they would, and if they don't know they also don't know the also probably don't know to look it up.
Ah, New York was Dutch and some of the presidents were of direct Dutch ancestry, so they have some stake of how those names are pronounced and I don't think it's wrong just that's how they decided to pronounce them.
@@sion8 I really don't mind current day American Van Houtens and Vanderbergs pronounce it that way. But doing that to modern Dutch names to me does seem like a lack of respect to me. (goes for other names as well, actually).
Dude, Ruud.. I mean, rude.
You gotta admit Poepjes is a kinda funny name though.
@@Soliloquy084 Yeah, for sure.
My mates who are of British descent also love to make fun of the way the Dutch language sounds to them in general, much like that South Park episode with the Danes.
Even my family's name has become a bit funny in Aotearoa. In Nederland it's pronounced Vay-na-maa(and that v is very f sounding, as you have done with de Vries), but here it's just become an enema with a hard v in front it.
Okay. Now let's hear about Haarhuis!
The floor is yours...
@@Soliloquy084 Hey I'm not the expert here. I remember the tennis player from the 90s and happened to write a Dutch character into a story I wrote, where I made a joke about an American guy constantly referring to him as "Whorehouse."
@@LordBitememan "Haar" is either hair or her, "huis" is house.
@@Joostuh Now see, "Hair House" would make sense. Barber Shop! It would be kinda like how Barber is a surname in English.
Note that "haar" is also found in the names of a few towns: Westerhaar, Kloosterhaar, Haarzuilens, ... So it might have nothing to do with hair, but with geography.
And now we need to know your name as well - is it sheep?
To the Dunedinites watching the video, where does Lee Vandervis get his name from
Vis means fish so he was probably a fisher
Pfffffffff.... we dont have funny names, you funny man.
Bakkes houden jonge
Are we that funny?
Yes, you're hilarious.
the Dutch existence is hilarious
You might want to consider a bit more 'clickable' title... it currently is a very descriptive title, but something like 'the country of silly surnames' or 'born naked and other silly surnames' is more clickable, while still truthful.
Maybe, I do quite like the title I gave it, just feels like there is more personality.
@@Soliloquy084 you can always try a few different ones, see if views go and then you always go back :) I watched a video by Veritasium about clickbait and he has some great tips on increasing viewcounts for educational videos while remaining ethical
I still gotta watch that Veritasium video, I'm very far behind on actually watching stuff
Since when are Europeans exotic?
He's a Kiwi