Okay, so I was digging into this whole “Namajunas” last name thing, and let me tell you, it turned into a bit of a rabbit hole.
First, I just typed “Namajunas last name origin” into my search bar. You know, the usual. I wanted to see what the internet had to say about it. Initially, I just found some stuff about this Rose Namajunas lady. She’s a mixed martial artist, fights in the UFC, pretty cool. But I was more interested in the name itself.
Then I came across this site, Geni, talking about a family tree. That was getting somewhere! It had Rose Namajunas’s full name as “Rose Gertrude Namajunas”, and apparently, she was named after her great-grandmother, whose name was Rožė Gotšalkaitė Namajūnienė. That was way more information than I expected.
- Rožė seems to be the Lithuanian version of “Rose”.
- And her great-grandma’s husband was some kind of military officer. This detail wasn’t very important but pretty interesting.
I kept scrolling and found another page saying there were 35 profiles for the Namajunas family on *. I didn’t dive deep into all of them, but it confirmed that this is a real family name with history.
The most interesting bit was when I realized that Rose Namajunas was born in Milwaukee, but her parents were from Lithuania. They moved to the States in 1991, and she was born in ’92. That explained why the name sounded so different – it’s Lithuanian!
And then I found a post that said “Namajunas” means “Rose Flower.” It didn’t seem right. Why would her last name mean the same thing as her first name? It did not make much sense.
So, what did I learn from all this? Basically, “Namajunas” is a Lithuanian last name. Rose Namajunas, the fighter, got her name from her great-grandmother. Her family moved to the US from Lithuania, bringing their cool-sounding name with them. There’s a whole family history there, which I just scratched the surface of, it’s like a little genealogical adventure. It’s not every day you dig into the history of a last name, but it was definitely a fun little internet journey!
Key Takeaways
Rose Namajunas’ last name is Lithuanian. Her family has history tied to Lithuania. The name is associated with a famous UFC fighter. And that is it. Not very hard, but I learned something new.
