Last Names Derived from Professions

Many of today's last names (including many of the most common last names) derive from the medieval tradition of appending people's trade to their given name (for a fictional example, see Ken Follett's "The Pillars of the Earth" and "World Without End"). So let's bring them all together here, those Smiths, Millers, Bakers, Farmers, etc.!

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16	Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster 3.60 avg rating — 15,690 ratings score: 454, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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37	Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher 4.20 avg rating — 13,412 ratings score: 263, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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40	Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2) by Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 55,672 ratings score: 258, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 13,105 ratings score: 252, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher (Pseudonym) 3.90 avg rating — 533 ratings score: 248, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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48	Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #3) by Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 42,498 ratings score: 207, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	River God (Ancient Egypt, #1) by Wilbur Smith 4.22 avg rating — 39,637 ratings score: 206, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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52	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling 4.47 avg rating — 9,530,670 ratings score: 197, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright 4.32 avg rating — 36,303 ratings score: 195, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Your Erroneous Zones by Wayne W. Dyer 4.02 avg rating — 16,684 ratings score: 191, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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57	The Complete Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 4.08 avg rating — 6,262 ratings score: 190, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller 3.96 avg rating — 54,680 ratings score: 187, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 3.61 avg rating — 9,089 ratings score: 184, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Delusions of Grandma by Carrie Fisher 3.46 avg rating — 1,305 ratings score: 184, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor 3.64 avg rating — 6,383 ratings score: 183, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	No Way of Telling by Emma Smith 4.05 avg rating — 73 ratings score: 181, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller 4.06 avg rating — 25,151 ratings score: 181, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer 4.27 avg rating — 14,593 ratings score: 181, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 3.86 avg rating — 177,750 ratings score: 181, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 8,828 ratings score: 180, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Erewhon (Erewhon, #1) by Samuel Butler 3.29 avg rating — 3,870 ratings score: 180, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris 4.15 avg rating — 1,561 ratings score: 178, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	The Old Man and Mr. Smith: A Fable by Peter Ustinov 3.95 avg rating — 786 ratings score: 178, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, #1-3) by Pat Barker 4.38 avg rating — 2,642 ratings score: 176, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer 4.38 avg rating — 2,064 ratings score: 174, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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72	Sartoris by William Faulkner 3.81 avg rating — 1,412 ratings score: 173, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats 4.22 avg rating — 38,363 ratings score: 173, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 4.40 avg rating — 894 ratings score: 168, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 3.95 avg rating — 7,348 ratings score: 168, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	The Great Hunger : Ireland 1845-9 by Cecil Woodham-Smith 4.18 avg rating — 1,125 ratings score: 167, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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79	A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Volume 14) (The Western Frontier Library Series) by Isabella Lucy Bird 3.96 avg rating — 2,975 ratings score: 164, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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81	The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6) by Raymond Chandler 4.19 avg rating — 41,180 ratings score: 158, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) by David Hackett Fischer 4.36 avg rating — 3,118 ratings score: 157, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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85	K-PAX The Trilogy (K-PAX, #1-3) by Gene Brewer 4.12 avg rating — 1,374 ratings score: 154, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85	The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4) by Raymond Chandler 4.06 avg rating — 24,658 ratings score: 154, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87	An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England: A Novel by Brock Clarke 2.97 avg rating — 6,354 ratings score: 152, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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546 books · 39 voters · list created July 7th, 2010 by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (votes) .

Tags: baker, brewer, builder, butcher, butler, chandler, cook, cooper, farmer, fisher, forester, forster, fowler, gardener, gardner, glover, goldsmith, joiner, last-name, maier, mayer, meier, meyer, miller, name, profession, smith, tailor, taylor, trade, wagner

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message 1: by Thom (new)

Jul 08, 2010 07:49AM

FOOTNOTE: Sartoris....."taylor" in Latin.

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message 2: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Jul 08, 2010 08:02AM

Yes, of course! (What am I missing about Atwood's "Blind Assassin," though?)

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message 3: by [deleted user] (new)

Jul 08, 2010 08:11AM

Meyer, Maier, Mayer?

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message 4: by Bettie (new)

Jul 08, 2010 08:12AM

Was Forster a rapist by trade?

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message 5: by [deleted user] (last edited Jul 08, 2010 08:21AM) (new)

Jul 08, 2010 08:18AM

Forester, perhaps.

Wagner? Muller? Ferber?

(Just found Ferber... Farber=Dyer in german)

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message 6: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (last edited Jul 08, 2010 08:50AM) (new)

Jul 08, 2010 08:43AM

Meier (or in last names, any variant spelling) refers to a poulty farmer in German.

Wagner => wagonner (a wagon driver). Same in German for a wagon, or rather, cart wheel maker, btw.

Müller = German for miller.

Forster = forester (forest keeper); again, virtually the same in German (Förster).

And, yes, Ferber (or actually, Färber) = German for dyer.

Anyone for French names? (Boulanger? Patissier? Boucher?)

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message 7: by [deleted user] (new)

Jul 08, 2010 08:48AM

Thanks T.-A. You learn something new every day!

Färber: can't do the umlaut thing on my keyboard... or accents...

Wiki failed me on these!

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message 8: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Jul 08, 2010 08:52AM

Yeah, I know -- that used to drive me nuts when I was living in the States! I hated always having to open a Word doc, insert the umlaut as a special symbol and then copy it ...

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message 9: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Jul 08, 2010 09:01AM

It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.

And what is "Atwood"?

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message 10: by [deleted user] (last edited Jul 08, 2010 09:27AM) (new)

Jul 08, 2010 09:26AM

Susanna wrote: "It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.

I know there is a way, but I cant remember the stupid code numbers...

Themis-Athena wrote: "Yeah, I know -- that used to drive me nuts when I was living in the States! I hated always having to open a Word doc, insert the umlaut as a special symbol and then copy it ..."

...so I've got the ones I use most on my Google side bar, so I just have to copy and paste. No umlaut in Italian, however!

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message 11: by Thom (new)

Jul 08, 2010 10:23AM

Themis-Athena wrote: "Yes, of course! (What am I missing about Atwood's "Blind Assassin," though?)"

Well, it's kinda grim, but "assassin" is a profession in the story-within-the-story. They are higherlings, and there are several of them, the blind assassins. And, of course, there are many books about professional assassins, more's the pity. Martin Sheen plays a professional assassin in Apocalypse Now, a film I wish was a book so I could make GR questions about it.

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message 12: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Jul 08, 2010 10:24AM

No, but other diacritical marks (à etc.) ...

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message 13: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Jul 08, 2010 10:24AM

Susanna wrote: "It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.

And what is "Atwood"?"

Yes, I'm wondering about that as well!

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message 14: by Thom (new)

Jul 08, 2010 10:45AM

Themis-Athena wrote: "Susanna wrote: "It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.

And what is "Atwood"?"

Yes, I'm wondering about that as well!"

One of my grad school classmates was one Alfred KLEINERKREUTZMAN......What's that about ?

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message 15: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Jul 08, 2010 10:46AM

Little cross man??!!

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message 16: by Thom (new)

Jul 08, 2010 10:48AM

Themis-Athena wrote: "Little cross man??!!"

Yes, he said his grandfather would tell the story of how the name came to be, but if Al ever told ME the story, I forgot it. I'm guessing it was the person who was "kleiner", not the cross.

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message 17: by Valerie (new)

Jul 08, 2010 06:52PM

Don't forget 'cooper', 'chandler', 'baker', etc. Any such list could get really unweildy really fast.

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message 18: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Jul 09, 2010 02:16AM

Do feel free to add books by Coopers, Chandlers, Bakers, etc. ... the more the merrier, as far as I'm concerned! :)

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message 19: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jun 16, 2016 08:55AM) (new)

Jun 04, 2016 03:23PM

What's a 'James'? (As in Henry James, #10)

'Bakker' is Dutch for baker, by the way. 'Boer' is Dutch for farmer and 'Brouwer' is Dutch for brewer. 'Molenaar' is miller, 'Meester' is (school) master and 'Visser' is fisherman.

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message 20: by Koenraad (new)

Jun 15, 2016 04:06PM

'Kuyper' is the old Dutch form of 'Kuiper' - Cooper in English
'Craemer' is the old Dutch form of 'Kramer' - Peddler/Pedlar in English
'Coster' is the old Dutch form of 'Koster' - Sacristan in English
'Volder' is Dutch for Fuller
'Olyslaegers' is Dutch for a person who crushes plant seeds to get the oil (I don't know the English translation for this)

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message 21: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jun 15, 2016 09:10PM) (new)

Jun 15, 2016 08:52PM

Koenraad wrote: "''Olyslaegers' is Dutch for a person who crushes plant seeds to get the oil (I don't know the English translation for this).."

Olyslaegers (Olieslager) = oil-crusher/oil-presser :-)

Coster/Koster is also Sexton. She isn't in the list yet, and I don't have any of her work, otherwise I would have added something by Anne Sexton.

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message 22: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jun 15, 2016 09:01PM) (new)

Jun 15, 2016 09:01PM

Hayes wrote: "(Just found Ferber... Farber=Dyer in german)"

The Dutch surname 'Verver'/'Verwer' also means 'dyer'.

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message 23: by Koenraad (new)

Jun 16, 2016 03:54AM

Booklovinglady wrote: "Olyslaegers (Olieslager) = oil-crusher/oil-presser :-)"

Thanks for the translation - didn't realize it was quite that simple :-)

"Coster/Koster is also Sexton. She isn't in the list yet, and I don't have any of her work, otherwise I would have added something by Anne Sexton."

You can add books that are not on your shelves to a list. Just go to "Add Books To This List" and click on Search where it says "Add books from: My Books or a Search". Then you can look up a title, an ISBN or an author and add books from the results.

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message 24: by Koenraad (new)

Jun 16, 2016 03:57AM

Added Felix Timmermans and Lia Timmermans (father and daughter btw). Dutch for' Carpenter'.

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message 25: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jun 16, 2016 09:07AM) (new)

Jun 16, 2016 08:46AM

Koenraad wrote: "Added Felix Timmermans and Lia Timmermans (father and daughter btw). Dutch for' Carpenter'."

Completely forgot about Felix Timmermans.... I've added an omnibus with his work. Thanks Koenraad.

Added another one too, by the way: Snijders (son of 'Snijder') = cutter

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message 26: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jun 16, 2016 09:18AM) (new)

Jun 16, 2016 09:04AM

Koenraad wrote: "You can add books that are not on your shelves to a list...."

I know I can ;-) but I rarely do. Except for Listopia's used for the seasonal challenges of the Netherlands & Flanders group (in which only titles of books translated into Dutch are mentioned), because if I stuck to the titles on my own shelves for these, I wouldn't have a Listopia to refer to :-)

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message 27: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jun 16, 2016 09:16AM) (new)

Jun 16, 2016 09:14AM

Hayes wrote: "Wagner? Muller? Ferber..."

"Wagner" is German and if I remember correctly it has something or other to do with carts/wagons. So maybe someone who makes carts and wagons. I'm sorry, but it is nearly 40 years ago since I took German classes in high school :-)

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