07-04-2024, 02:52 PM
People should think twice before naming their kids.
Although not as bad as that case, my elder sister know a woman whose last name is Peixe (fish) that married a man with the last name Espada (sword). So their kids' last names are Peixe Espada (Sword Fish).
In Portugal we have many cases like this, not only because of the people that got their names from the place where they came from, for example, but also because of the New Christians, Jews that were more or less forced to change to Christianity and chose plant names for their last names. Besides that, in some regions is normal for someone to use as their real name the nick name of an ancestor. That's why a man I knew was Gato (Cat), as an ancestor of him climbed a pole like he was a cat to flee from a bull, so everybody started calling him "Cat".
Although not as bad as that case, my elder sister know a woman whose last name is Peixe (fish) that married a man with the last name Espada (sword). So their kids' last names are Peixe Espada (Sword Fish).
In Portugal we have many cases like this, not only because of the people that got their names from the place where they came from, for example, but also because of the New Christians, Jews that were more or less forced to change to Christianity and chose plant names for their last names. Besides that, in some regions is normal for someone to use as their real name the nick name of an ancestor. That's why a man I knew was Gato (Cat), as an ancestor of him climbed a pole like he was a cat to flee from a bull, so everybody started calling him "Cat".
