england euro bank holiday

[Zhivago]

Would piss me right off. If they do that the devolved institutions should get equivalent powers.

[Which Tyler]

Now here's some "pointless patriotism" I can get behind: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... plains-all

What’s in the England team’s names? English Heritage explains all

St George’s flags featuring surnames of almost every person in England will fly from heritage sites to cheer on team

Harry Kane can trace his surname back to a word for “warrior”. Declan Rice to “impetuous”. Kieran Trippier to “dance”. Kyle Walker will have to make do with “trampler of cloth in a bath of lye” which, to be fair, was once a very important job.


English Heritage is getting in the football spirit by revealing the origins of the names of the England players. It will also fly a St George’s flag featuring the surname of almost every person living in England at its properties to help cheer on the team before Sunday’s Euro 2020 final against Italy.


More than 32,000 surnames, from Aamir to Zyla, will fly on a flag at sites including Stonehenge, Osborne on the Isle of Wight and Carlisle Castle, which, English Heritage points out, “has endured more sieges than any other place in the British isles”.

The charity is using the patriotic outpouring created by England’s success so far to launch a project it has been working on for some time. From Friday people will be able to go to a “names of England” website and tap in their surname to discover its origins and prevalence.


Raheem Sterling would discover his name has Scottish origins, that he’s one of 1,972 adult Sterlings and they most commonly live in Durham. Sunderland-born Jordan Henderson will find there are more Hendersons in Newcastle than anywhere else. The name derives from “Henry’s son” and he is one of 29,309 Hendersons.
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[Puja]

Now here's some "pointless patriotism" I can get behind: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... plains-all

What’s in the England team’s names? English Heritage explains all

St George’s flags featuring surnames of almost every person in England will fly from heritage sites to cheer on team

Harry Kane can trace his surname back to a word for “warrior”. Declan Rice to “impetuous”. Kieran Trippier to “dance”. Kyle Walker will have to make do with “trampler of cloth in a bath of lye” which, to be fair, was once a very important job.


English Heritage is getting in the football spirit by revealing the origins of the names of the England players. It will also fly a St George’s flag featuring the surname of almost every person living in England at its properties to help cheer on the team before Sunday’s Euro 2020 final against Italy.


More than 32,000 surnames, from Aamir to Zyla, will fly on a flag at sites including Stonehenge, Osborne on the Isle of Wight and Carlisle Castle, which, English Heritage points out, “has endured more sieges than any other place in the British isles”.

The charity is using the patriotic outpouring created by England’s success so far to launch a project it has been working on for some time. From Friday people will be able to go to a “names of England” website and tap in their surname to discover its origins and prevalence.


Raheem Sterling would discover his name has Scottish origins, that he’s one of 1,972 adult Sterlings and they most commonly live in Durham. Sunderland-born Jordan Henderson will find there are more Hendersons in Newcastle than anywhere else. The name derives from “Henry’s son” and he is one of 29,309 Hendersons.
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Almost every surname in England... but not mine.

In fairness, mine is super-rare, but I did have my hopes up for a minute that I'd be included for once!

Puja

[Which Tyler]

Almost every surname in England... but not mine.

In fairness, mine is super-rare, but I did have my hopes up for a minute that I'd be included for once!

When I tried, the search feature simply didn't work - mine's pretty common and it wasn't found (but suggested the same name back to me as an alternative). They did say they've got every name with more than 100 occurrences in England
I think it might be glitchy - as of a a couple of hours ago.


ETA: it's got mine now; I'm a special little flower with only 12,434 namesakes; unfortunately mostly in Romford

Norman, English, Welsh, Irish: locative name perhaps from a French hamlet named with Old French barri ‘rampart’, later applied to a settlement below the rampart of a town;

[Puja]

Almost every surname in England... but not mine.

In fairness, mine is super-rare, but I did have my hopes up for a minute that I'd be included for once!

When I tried, the search feature simply didn't work - mine's pretty common and it wasn't found (but suggested the same name back to me as an alternative)
I think it might be glitchy - as of an hour or so ago.

The search function had started working okay at the point of my post. They said when they returned no results that they were collecting every surname with more than 100 occasions in the UK and I know there's fewer than that of mine. I don't even think there's even 20!

Interesting that Rashford's a rare enough name to not have any information on it. My name at least sounds weird (I get a lot of, "Huh, where's that surname originally from?"s when the answer is actually brought into England by the Romans), but Rashford sounds like a good, solid, regular English name and I'm surprised to find it's not.

Puja

[Zhivago]

My surname is also not listed, so pretty rare too.