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in reply to a message by H3lp
Like for a character or for a name change, or is it already your surname?
Any surname that exists is ok. People don't generally pick them themselves and neither do their parents. They only exist to group families together.
It's a surname that means emperor (in English) plus charm in Polish. If that's an impression you want to give for a character or if they're the opposite of charming or imperious, it could be ironic; sure, use it.
If it's for a name change, it's likely to be misspelled, but that's true of a lot of surnames. It might be a little weird if you have no Polish or Eastern European ancestry, but whatever; if you like it, use it.
~ song of the week: "Little Sparrow"
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Any surname that exists is ok. People don't generally pick them themselves and neither do their parents. They only exist to group families together.
It's a surname that means emperor (in English) plus charm in Polish. If that's an impression you want to give for a character or if they're the opposite of charming or imperious, it could be ironic; sure, use it.
If it's for a name change, it's likely to be misspelled, but that's true of a lot of surnames. It might be a little weird if you have no Polish or Eastern European ancestry, but whatever; if you like it, use it.
~ song of the week: "Little Sparrow"
https://youtu.be/JB9zXoOBpOI
This message was edited 12/6/2021, 11:17 AM
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No my heritage is Scottish and Irish, I just like it for the meaning and I know two Americans with the surname and that's what I found looking into the name lots of fake pages giving different meanings and origin
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I don't think Czar is used as a surname anywhere in Eastern Europe, for what it's worth. Czar is actually the Polish word for spell, while Tsar is Car, and it doesn't follow the naming conventions of any EE language/culture I'm aware of. A quick Google search reveals no social media profiles with the surname Czar in Eastern Europe. Forebears says it's most common in Afghanistan, but as we all know, it's a shaky source.
This message was edited 12/6/2021, 9:41 AM
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Oh, ok. I think it is/was used in the US, though isn't common (I was looking at ancestry.com, and it said there were 9,000 records, and probably originated from a NN). I wouldn't be surprised if it was a variation of something like Czarny or Czarkowski or Czarnecki (in which case it'd probably be derived from black?). It was common for immigrants to simplify or anglicize surnames.
This message was edited 12/6/2021, 11:14 AM
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Oh yeah, that might be the case.
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