@Byte yes. Yes it does

@nightjar why would someone’s last name be sugar mountain

Is it something like “Mark of Sugar Mountain” where there was a place called that, which people got named after?

@Byte the story I heard is that in the middle ages, Jewish people in central Europe often just didn't use surnames at all. Then first Napoleon and then the Prussians came through and told everyone to adopt surnames.

You end up with a lot of stereotypically Jewish surnames such as Rosenbaum, Rosenberg, Grünberg, Goldberg, and yes, Zuckerberg. I think people just chose them because they sounded nice. No idea though. There may be something deeper to this

@nightjar @Byte most of them that fall outside that category of "idk it sounds like a cool name" just took the name of their settlement. It is pretty common to be able to trace an Ashkenazi Jewish family back to the exact village in eastern europe by name alone. A lot of these places no longer exist because they were Jewish settlements targeted in pogroms, or just happened to be in the path of a war.

It really isn't that different than people in most places forced to adopt surnames. In other historical circumstances a surname would be a family trade, name of a clan, or something.

@thufie @nightjar oh yeah that also makes sense. I understand that’s how a lot of surnames came about. Like Anglo ones such as “Baker”, “Smith”, etc that are just a trade