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Italians are not the only ones to live with the burden of insulting surnames, of course.
This is the origin of the surnames Hobbes and Hopkins (i.e., Hobs and Hobkins ), Dodge cars, and Alfred Hitchcock , among other things, including some famous sobriquets.
In a bare six and a half pages Rybakin takes us on a crash course in the history of English first names, from Anglo-Saxon Æthelbeald to the titlederived names of modern times such as Duke and Earl . He rightly devotes part of his survey to a consideration of surnames as first names, although in his main entries names of this type such as Bradley, Chester, Clifford, and Seymour are simply explained as deriving `from the surname.
When surnames did become hereditary they were always, not “usually,’ the second names that went with the given names.
The vogue for first names such as James (pronounced JEMSS) is still far from its peak, and freedom of movement within the EEC means that English surnames are becoming more and more common here.