The surname of the Dutch royal family used to be orange, so the national color of the Netherlands is orange. You can just call it orange, but it's really rare, but it won't be abrupt. After all, it used to be a royal name.

The etymology of English surnames mainly includes:

1. Borrow Christian names directly, such as Clinton.

2. Add affixes to Christian names to express blood relationship, such as suffixes -s, -son,-ing; Prefixes M'-, Mc-, Mac-, Fitz-, etc. Both mean the son or descendant of so-and-so

3. Attach identity affixes before Christian names, such as St.-, De-, Du=, La-, Le-.

4. Reflect place names, landforms or environmental features, such as streams and mountains.

5. Reflect identity or occupation, such as Carter and Smith.

6. Reflect personal characteristics, such as: black, Longfellow.

Three. Last name:

For a long time, the British had only a first name and no last name. It was not until the16th century that the use of surnames became widely popular. According to experts' estimation, there are as many as 6.5438+0.5 million surnames in English-speaking countries. Professor Zhou Haizhong, a famous scholar in China, pointed out in the paper "Research on English Names" published in 1992 that there are about 3,000 common English surnames, and the top ten are Smith, Jones and Williams.

Brown, Davis, Johnson, Anderson, Taylor, Thomas, Evans; Its population accounts for about half of the English population. A recent survey shows that the top ten British surnames remain unchanged.