ARE LAST NAMES ARE LIKE TREASURES PAST ON FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION, YET DO WE KNOW HOW THESE NAMES CAME ABOUT. PROBABLY THE NAMING PROCESS STARTED ABOUT TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO. HOWEVER MOST OF OUR ENGLISH SURNAMES CAME INTO BEING BETWEEN THE TWELTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES. IT WAS A GRADUAL PROCESS THOUGH.