Surnames
This entry was posted on Jul 10 2010
While Chinese surnames are generally without meaning (though with long history), many German surnames are linked to occupation – painter, farmer, log tender and so on… once in a while, you come across a funny surname – for example “f***er’. I’m serious, one of them was even a famous physicist and gave us the Fick’s law… 
In the English word, its not obvious that but many surnames are still occupations or characteristic, albeit in another language, like Kaufmann, which means business man.
However, hilariously, I just came across a superb surname. So absurd that I think it might be made up. Well, there’s a Chris Moneymaker, who won the world series of poker in 2003.
No joke.