Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 days agoIn Hollywood why do all actors and such have fake names besides their own? How do they come up with them? If I went to hollywood could i make up something like Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler?message-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down18
arrow-up113arrow-down1message-squareIn Hollywood why do all actors and such have fake names besides their own? How do they come up with them? If I went to hollywood could i make up something like Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 days agoLots of last names are occupational names, like your Smith example, so were often a qualifier that others used. And it seems the immigration story wasn’t really that common.
minus-squareTujio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoYes, names like Smith, Schomaker and Tanner come from the family business. Don’t ask about the Dickinsons.
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoIt happened with my last name. They changed it to end with a Y instead of I
Lots of last names are occupational names, like your Smith example, so were often a qualifier that others used.
And it seems the immigration story wasn’t really that common.
Yes, names like Smith, Schomaker and Tanner come from the family business.
Don’t ask about the Dickinsons.
Oh yeah…they were the politicians.
It happened with my last name. They changed it to end with a Y instead of I