Farmer Last Names

A list by a written rule, built on 3 October 2026 from English Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 4.0). A surname is listed when two things hold. One: it stands in one of the dictionary's categories of surnames from occupations (Category:English surnames from occupations and the same category for German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene and Turkish), read that day. Two: the entry itself, or the entry of the job word it names, says what the job was, and the job is farm work by a word list of ours: working the soil or growing a crop, herding or keeping animals and bees, holding or managing farm land, or mowing, reaping and winnowing. Hunters, fishers, foresters, millers and sellers were left out; so were names whose entry gives no job, and jobs to do with drink. Each card gives the language of the entry and then the dictionary's own words, cut to the clause that names the job; 'from the word' means the surname is spelled as the plain job word of that language. A surname filed under English whose entry gives a German origin stands under German. Where the dictionary lists several spellings of one Romanian job surname, one card keeps the spelling ending in -u and names the others. Where a job word has a second meaning that is another job, the card gives both (Căpraru, Păcuraru); the Arendaș card adds the dictionary's gloss of arendă, and the Vanier card both origins of its entry. This site's rule is that at most 40 in 100 names of a list may also stand in its other lists. Of the 101 names that passed, 52 stand on another list of this site; 12 of those were left out because a list that already holds them has no room, and 9 more to keep this list under the cap, the ones we judged less known first. One more, Opincaru, came off after a second check: its job word is also a moccasin maker. That leaves 79 names, 31 of them shared (39.2 in 100), counted on 3 October 2026. Kinds of work: 31 tilling and growing, 37 herding and animals, 11 holding land and harvest. Languages: 28 Romanian, 13 English, 9 Italian, 7 German, 5 Slovak, 4 French, 3 Czech, 3 Hungarian, 2 Turkish, 2 Serbo-Croatian, 1 Dutch, 1 Slovene, 1 Spanish. A surname's job is what a dictionary records for the name in general, not for any family; no count of how common a name is stands behind this list. Licence: Drawn from English Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The selection and the grouping are our own work.