Last name?? History?

Question

can you tell what you arei forgot the word..you know like German.irish.italian.that kind of stuff by someon's last name?? i need help Figuring this out for school so something that will help alot!

Oh and before a Forget the last name is Kemker!

Thanks!!

Answer 1

Not really.  There are many reasons people end up with the last name they have and often it has nothing to do with the origins of the name.  Perfect example is the slaves.  They did not have surnames when they came here, and many times adopted the surnames of their owners........so now there are tens of thousands of slave descendants carrying around last names that have nothing to do with their heritage or where any of there ancestors came from.  Other things, like occupation, is a source of last names as well.  Smith came from someone who was a blacksmith......but was he a blacksmith in England, Germany, or Ireland?  And many last names have multiple sources.........came from different countries at different times for different reasons.  And, many names changed as people immigrated around the world.

Answer 2

This name is German.   Is that what you mean?