Like seriously, if Rey is okay picking a family name she isn't related to, why didn't she just *do* that? Why didn't she *already* call herself Rey Skywalker since Luke was her hero? Why didn't she pick Solo after Han died?
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Isn't "van" more common in the Netherlands?
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Sorry, yes, I meant to add that in Dutch it's the cognate "van"
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Van Rijn ("from the Rhine"), van der Berg ("from the mountain"), van Dyk ("from the dyke") Which, of course, led to particularly defiant families having the name "Zondervan" ("without a van")
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I would guess that most people in Han's situation would've just tried to make something up to borrow a common surname ("I'm Han... Smith") and thus made it even more common, or used something like a place name
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One of my dad's best friends' last name is Blaauw which is literally just the word for Blue
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Mine is some sort of job I think? Like basically night watchmen or something
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this is the origin of a funny story about how Ludwig van Beethoven (German, of Dutch descent) tried to con the Austrian authorities into believing he was a noble and almost got away with it for a while.
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