Wedding is a surname. It is German and it originates in place names - Wedding or Weddingen. It is also a short form of Wederkind, with its variant Weddig.
I guess that's better than having the surname "Nobody" which is rarer than "Wedding," One website said it found 6,830 records for the Nobody surname. I wonder if they are all related. What is your guess that Somebody is a surname? I thought it could be - one article says no it isn't and in another says that there are 82 people with the surname Somebody. Another site thinks there are 128 people with the surname, mostly in Iran.
What if you were one of the Heavens? There are some notable people with this surname. Heaven is a variant of Evan and is Welsh.
What surnames have fewer than 20 contemporary people holding the name afloat? Here's what the internet site Ancestry.uk says are current "endangered" names:
Miracle
Dankworth
Relish
MacQuoid
Loughty
Birdwhistle
Berrycloth
Tumbler
Other articles have different surnames that are going extinct. That's out of somewhere in the range of nine to eleven million different surnames in the world. That number comes from a few sites.
However, the AI overview gave the range of 100,000 to 750 million distinct surnames in 2020. It depends how you account for language.
The is the door to the carillon at Bok Tower, in Florida. Don't you love a golden door? It seems like all the answers lie within
