Ignore the typos, I'll edit when I'm sober.

My last name is ukrainian, and i'm wondeiring if any of you could help show me the "original" spelling (with slavic chars) and possibly give me some direction as to the meaning.

my last name is "Mykytiuk". I googled a whole lot some time ago, but didn't have too much luck. Basically all I leanrted was the "uk" ending means "son of", and that there are ukrainian forenames like "mykytyn", making my last name something like "Son of Mykytyn". I don't know if mykytyn is the actual name that my surname comes from, or how I would find out.

So in summary, if anyone (either if you know anything about ukrainian names or happen to know a ukrainian that you could ask) can give me direction on the correct slavic-character spelling of my last name and the meaning, I'd be very grateful. Thank you.

Wow, my surname is Ukranian too. Tis 'Pysanczyn', and I know not much about anything regarding the origins or anything unfortunately.

But yay for Cossack buddy

No, actually it does not.

Also, Микитюк.

For those like me who couldn't read that smallness

Ukrainians unite?

My last name is Ukrainian, too. Actually I'm technically half Ukranian, my dad was an immigrant to Australia.

Woooo! Cossack club!

I'm 1/4 Ukranian - my grandad came to England after the war.

bah, ukrainian...

My surname is welsh, and my birthname is modified jewish (wtf)

And i have scandanavian/celtic blood. weeeeee for meeee.

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

This is the website that I got that from, I suppose it could be inaccurate:
http://userweb.ccomm.com/sfpayer/DB/Slavic-Rusyn%20Items.htm



If that isn't what it means, do you have any idea what it actually does?

Also, as far as pronounciation goes, my family has always pronounced it "mick-ah-chuke", which according to use of a transliteration table with the cyrillic spelling you provided seems pretty close. Glad we haven't been saying it completely wrong all these years.

Is transliteration a subjective thing, or is there only one proper way to translit something? I ask because I eventually want to get a tattoo of my last name in it's original form, and obviously want to be sure that it's correct.

Thanks for all the help.

First name's Irish. Surname's registered as Scottish, comes from Norway.

I keep reading this thread as Eurosaurs.

There's a Ukrainian exchange student at my school this year, I'll ask her on Monday.

Thanks, I'd appreciate that.

My mom is half English (Dixon, her maiden name) half Welsh (Jones) which both go back too long for me to stay away reading in both countries.

My dad is adopted, so I am half whatever. His family is German, hence, I have two German names, one VERY german, and one more or less German, and one English name.

Same here, I'll ask her too.

My surname has an odd history. It started out Welsh but became German. My last name is "Waltrip", pronounced as "Wall Trip" but in German it is pronounced as "Wall drip". My first name is Hebrew though which is "Aaron".

My mother's maiden name was Ziolkowski. Originally it wasn't spelled like that, but when my ancestors came to America they discovered that the English language doesn't have those odd letters that look like a 'c' with a line through it.

Any updates from those that know exchange students?