my last name is hartman. i think it sounds more german then russian, but some people have told me that it is a russian name. can someone please clarify this for me?
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my last name is hartman. i think it sounds more german then russian, but some people have told me that it is a russian name. can someone please clarify this for me?
No. Your name is not Russian.
thats what I told the guy, i said it was german and hes like "no dude, your russian" but im gonna believe, this being a russian forum
yea it's german. there's a guy named Гофман "Hoffman" and hes german.
Your name is clearly German.Quote:
Originally Posted by american_patriot23
The contemporay meaning of "hart" ist "hard". But a few centuries ago, when most German names evolved the sense of this word was more like "mighty" or "powerful".
The meaning of "man" should be obvious.
He's American....Quote:
Originally Posted by Старик
that name is far from being slavic.
"durrrr......is Williams a chinese name?"
lol :lol:
thanks for the help, i kenw i was right about the name. but my name only has 1 n in it some names (hartmann) have to n's, what does that mean?
Well, Hartman can actually be a Russian name. Russian in the sense of coming from Russia. We have people with surnames like Bohl, Feuerstein, etc. They aren't ethnic Russians, though. Think about them Volga Germans.
yeah, so its not a russian name.
It means back in the day when your ancestors were getting off the boat somebody spelt their name wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by american_patriot23
Don't listen to them...
It's german for sure, because "Mann" is the german word for "Man".
Так и есть!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogboy182
On the other hand your Hartman may well be a corruption of Haritonov. So yes, it is Russian. I'm now 100% convinced that your name is Russian. Yep, Russian it is. I mean, what else?
lol, stop confusing him.
Hartman can also be a Dutch name! If it was german it would be hartmaNN. But I really don't think it's a russian name,...doesn't sound like it anyway :?
Well, it sounds Russian enough to my native Russian ears. Not a typical Russian name, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sylvie
Hartman is as "Russian" as Bernstein... It could be either Jewish (in Yiddish "Man" has one "N") or German (from Volga Deutsche).
It also can be a German Hartman with one "N", cause the second "N" from MANN could be lost with the time, or some officials once have made a mistake. I lived in Germany for some time... there are a lot of MAN's with on N.
an... Russian name is always ending on -ev or -ov, as son of....
Interesting statement. Are you saying that you canQuote:
an... Russian name is always ending on -ev or -ov, as son of....
It sounds like a garbled, Westernized "хетман". So it's really a Turkish name. ;)
I have just been talking to experts on this very subject coincidentally and it seems that it is generally agreed that your name is neither Russian or German but rather ancient Briton. Yes apparently you are named after an ancient deity who was half man half god, who supposedly possessed super human powers which he used to fight crime, protect the poor and the virtue of maidens. Though I believe that in the original spelling the “H” was an “F”.
That's the third time someone has posted that here. It was funny the first time. What does it have to do with the thread, though?
an american confusing a Nordic name with a Slavik one or something.
Really? What about Paul Nipkov- he was a german inventor, Willhelm Gustlov - he was a german man and a ship... and so on. What about the name "Kaluzhskiy" - "...of Kaluga", is it russian? What about the name Preobrazhenskiy, Bogolubskiy? Are the russian names Silin or Puzin? :wink: It is not so easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by SoftScorpio
besides, -ov and -ev doesn't mean son of...Quote:
Originally Posted by SoftScorpio
That is what the patronymics are for: -ich and -ovna son/daughter of...
Preobrazhenskiy, isn't that a fictious name in "sobache serdtse", or is it a common name?
Preobrazhenski is a real Russian name. I went to school with someone called Dmitry Preobrazhenski.Quote:
Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
I went to school with a Turkish national named Mehmet Hartman.
well, is my name russian too, cuz im russian
DiMaria
:? ?????
Looks itialian.
i no, but cant a name be more than one thing?
I am italian, but still, im russian too :|
When you say you're Russian are you of Russian decent or literally Russian? I don't understand.
DiMaria is not Russian. I think it looks Italian too.
And yep, names can be more than one thing.
DiMaria looks like a Turkish name to me. I once went to school with a Turkish national named Mehmet DiMaria.
Do you know lots of Turkish people or is it some type of joke? It doesn't seem Turkish to me. :?
I went to school in Turkey.
Once went to school with an Italian named Peppy DiAriea de Tolieta
My last name is Davidoff. Is that Russian? I'm pretty sure it is because my Grandfather is from Russia. I'd like to know about the origin of the name though....
Yep, your name is Russian. In cyrillic it would look like Давидов. It means "of the Davids" So, probably, your ancestors were serfs of a master called David...
I never have heard "Давидов" (Davidov),
but very widespread Russian family name is "Давыдов" (Davydov).
It seems "Davidoff" is adapted variant of "Давыдов" (Davydov) for English spelling.
"Давыдов" (Davydov) means "son of Davyd"(Давыд).
"Davyd"(Давыд) was very common russian name in first half of the XX century, in the XIX century and earlier (today the name is rare).
"Davyd"(Давыд) is Russian form of David.