People’s Names

Many of us love people’s names, last names in particular since there is usually a lot of history behind them. Just check out our local phone book from Ashley Adams to Paul Zygler and you will be amazed to find such a diverse collection of last names right here in Jasper County.

Some Jasperites have colorful last names, the Browns, the Greens or Greenes, the Blacks, the Whites, the Goldens and the Grays. Some have royal names, the Dukes, the Kings and the Bishops.

How about some past Presidential names, the Adams, the Johnsons, the Carters, the Wilsons, and the Jacksons.

A lot of folks have names that describe types of work, probably done by their ancestors, the Tanners, the Waggoners, the Wrights, the Smiths, the Pipers, the Hunters, the Barbers, the Millers, the Ropers, the Shoemakers, the Cooks, the Griffins and the Glovers.

If your last name describes a place, your ancestors probably lived near these places, like the Parks, the Wests, the Dales, the Mills, the Edges, the Wades, the Hills and the Woods.

Names can be a noun and a verb, like the Hunts, the Crows, and the Dials. Or they may be descriptive, like the Smalls, the Shorts, the Littles, the Stranges, the Strenghts, the Youngs or the Wises.

Do the Harts know the Heads or the Hopes know the Bells or the Moons? The Borns know only too well that you are born as a Goodman, a Holland, or maybe you are a members of the family of Mays or Stones or Walkers.

If you would like to find out about your surname, you can go to the website, www.meaning-of-names.com.