Help figuring out why a name has changed
my family has been known as Jacobsen as far back as
- Jens Peter Jacobsen
- Sex- Male
- Birth- 25 September 1814Nylarsker, Vester, Bornholm, Denmark
but before then are name gets weird
- Name - Jacob Jensen Graah
- Sex - Male
- Birth - 2 October 1784Vester Marie, Bornholm, Denmark
so Jens was the son of Jacob hence the last name being Jacobsen but most of my ancestor's before then had graah added to there name on top of taking the fathers name we trace back all the way to olaf graah according to family search
- Name - Oluf Graah
- Sex - Male
- Birth - about 1592Arnager, Nylarsker, Bornholm, Denmark
was Graah a title Oluf child in my lineage was Hans Olufsen Graah and Hans son was Jacob Hansen Graah so they are being named after the father but where is the Graah coming from
thank you for any help you can give
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This article in the Family Search Wiki on Danish personal names may, or may not, answer your question: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Denmark_Personal_Names.
Graah may be a variation of Graa (Grå) which means "gray" in Danish (the letter "å" can also be written "aa"). People often took a place name as a surname in Denmark, but I have not been able to locate any places in Denmark with the name of Graah, Graa, Gråh or Grå. It is not a really common name, but if you search with Graah in the "last name" field on this page: https://www.danishfamilysearch.com/search/ you will get close to 250 examples of the name in Danish records.
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thank you for looking ya i was figuring some type of title but i can't find a meaning for it. just seamed odd to me that they stopped using it after like 5 generations
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