Board 8 > Anyone know where to find origins of names without having to pay (and hey Lasa?)

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I just saw this person on the news and her last name was "docx"

Honest to god

"docx". Like the file extension.

I'm so curious as to the origin of that, all I can find is that it's Dutch so uh Lasa have you heard that before

But otherwise, anyone know how to find this without me having to literally sign up for like ancestry.com to find out the origin of one name?
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i've never heard that before, no.

just looked it up in my dutch dictionary - apparently the word doesn't mean anything in dutch, either.
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huh
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not sure what her family history is but it's not uncommon for names to have been changed when people immigrated to a new country, as happened with my ancestors. my grandfather's last name was originally some spelling of johansson, but it was changed to johnson when he moved to america as a child.

so basically it's possible there's some dutch last name that sounds similar to docx or is spelled similarly but was changed for arbitrary reasons. guess that really depends on where she lives now and where her family might have been in the past.

they could have also changed the spelling and/or pronunciation of their last name for reasons that are beyond our understanding.

alternately, that really is her last name and I have no clue what it means or why.
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I know of a Dockx (in Belgium) so yeah, it is a thing.
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yeah, "ckx" is not uncommon in dutch names. "cx" is fucking weird though.
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I searched people with the name and there's a Guardian writer called docx too, so it's not unique. But it's possible the K was dropped.
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@RyoCaliente posted...

I know of a Dockx (in Belgium) so yeah, it is a thing.

Do you know the origin of Dockx?

Possible docx is just an abbreviated version of that
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From some quick Google-fu, it seems to either be a French- or Dutchification of the German surname Deck, which was typically given to roof slaters. OR it is from the Walloon (French part of Belgium) 'dok' which translates to subtle or shrewd which originated in the city of Docq, Hainaut (Belgium).
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Pretty sure it comes from the fact that the new doc format is XML based so they just added an x to the end
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