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Would someone be able to tell your heritage or nationality just from your surname?
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No. Mostly people actually think I am joking. Once someone in a shop read it on my card at the checkout and didn't believe it was real.

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Hope it isn't Hitler.

LOL. No, nothin like that. Funnily enough, I read somethiing funny today:

Adolf Lu Hitler R. Marak is a politician in the state of Meghalaya, India. It may be noted that his name is not particularly curious within Meghalaya, where other local politicians are named Lenin R. Marak, Stalin L. Nangmin, Frankenstein W. Momin, or Tony Curtis Lyngdoh. Hitler Marak told the Hindustan Times: “Maybe my parents liked the name and hence christened me Hitler… I am happy with my name, although I don’t have any dictatorial tendencies.”

http://listverse.com/history/20-fantastically-named-people/

My married name and my single name would indicate 2 seperate origins.

Nope - nor from my first name or appearance.

My surname is English, so I suppose there must be some in there somewhere. Mostly I am Irish and Native American, with a little Welsh.