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Before surnames became the norm, people generally called people by their given names. As the villages grew, they needed a way to differentiate people sharing the same name. One way was to use their occupation like David the Baker, David the Blacksmith, David the Bowman. Those morphed gradually into simply David Baker, David Smith, David Bowman, and so on.

If this was still the norm today, what would your name be?Β πŸ€”

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