>
> Welsh surname? Hmmm ....... Presumably it is the name of the Hebrew
> prophet, so is this a case of a Welsh nonconformist adopting an Old
> Testament name as a baptismal name, which later became a surname? Morgan =
> and
> Morgan (Welsh Surnames, pp. 22-3) comment on this, but give relatively
> conventional examples such as Samuel, Moses, Jacob, Enoch, Elias and
> Jeremiah. Does anyone know of any more examples of a name as unusual as
> Habakkuk?
>
I don't know whether the individuals concerned are Welsh, but I have met the
surnames Ezra, Joel, Amos and Zephaniah (the last being the famous dub
poet, and any Welsh is probably diluted!).
I have met Abakuks as a Latvian surname.
Richard
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