{"id":2142,"date":"2026-04-04T18:46:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blinstrubas.com\/index\/en\/?page_id=2142"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:19:18","slug":"origin-of-surname","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blinstrubas.com\/index\/en\/blinstrub-family\/origin-of-surname\/","title":{"rendered":"Origin of surname"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The surname <strong>Blinstrubs de Towtwil<\/strong> is a double (compound) personal name that originated in \u017demaitija (Samogitia) in the second half of the 16th century, when the Danish-origin <strong>Blinstrub<\/strong> family merged with the descendants of <strong>Duke Tautvilas<\/strong> (Conrad Towtwil), son of Grand Duke K\u0119stutis and brother of Vytautas. In this surname, the personal name <strong>Blinstrub<\/strong> reflects the maternal line, while \u201c<strong>de Towtwil<\/strong>\u201d or \u201c<strong>Towtwilowicz<\/strong>\u201d serves as a lineage byname (Polish: przydomek), indicating a connection to another, older noble family from which the noble lineage descends. In our case, this is the paternal, male-line progenitor family.<\/p>\n<p>In this section, we researching the etymology of both surnames.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blinstrub<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The surname <strong>Blinstrub<\/strong> is undoubtedly a non-Lithuanian foreign-origin personal name, which, by all indications, arrived from Denmark, where it originated as an appellative two-stem personal name.<\/p>\n<p>The second stem of the surname, <em>-trup<\/em>, is an Old Norse noun \u201c<strong>Thorp<\/strong>\u201d. In Viking runes, it was written with a B \u2013 \u16a6\u16a2\u16b1\u16d2 \u2013 and in Denmark evolved into \u201c<strong>Trup<\/strong>\u201d, where it became a common component of many two-stem place names. This is very straightforwardly confirmed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/names.ku.dk\/place-names\/common_place-name_endings\/torp\">Linguistics Department of the University of Copenhagen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong Danish place names, the so-called \u2018<em>torp<\/em>\u2019 names are the most numerous. Today, most \u2018<em>torp<\/em>\u2019 names end in the suffixes -drup, -rup, and -trup, for example, Pandrup, Hunderup, and Stenstrup. The word \u2018torp\u2019 means \u2018remote settlement\u2019, therefore \u2018<em>torp<\/em>\u2019 names denote settlements, individual farms, and villages that separated from the main settlement. The majority of \u2018torp\u2019 names date from the Viking Age, and indeed there are many place names of this type in the Danelaw (eastern England) and Normandy. Many \u2018torp\u2019 names are formed from personal names, and from runic inscriptions we know that many of these personal names date from the Viking period, for example, the male name Svend \u2013 Svendstrup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the oldest Old Norse dictionaries,&nbsp; <em>Lexicon Islandicum Sive Gothic\u00e6 Run\u00e6 vel Lingv\u00e6 Septentrionalis Dictionarium<\/em> published in 1683, defines the word \u201c<strong>Thorp<\/strong>\u201d as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA town, village, that is, a group of houses (Oppidum, pagus, utpote dommorum collectio), while \u2018<em>Thorpa<\/em>\u2019 and \u2018<em>Thorping<\/em>\u2019 mean a group of people, a gathering (Caetus, caterva).\u201d<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another old and widely recognized Old Norse dictionary, the Cleasby &amp; Vigfusson Old Norse Dictionary published in 1874, defines the word \u201c<strong>Thorp<\/strong>\u201d in a very similar way:<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA small village or homestead. We believe that this word was originally used to describe the poorer peasants\u2019 cottages crowded together in a village, rather than separate houses standing on their own plots.\u201d Etymologically, it also means a crowd or assembly. It very frequently appears as the second component of Danish place names, for example, -trup or -rup (with the t dropped): Hos-trup, Kra-rup, Kolde-rup, Vins-trup, Sverd-rup; however, in Old Danish \u2013 -torp or -thorp, for example, Bukke-thorp, Thume-thorp. Ny-thorp = modern Danish Nyrup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the second stem of the surname \u201c<strong>-trup<\/strong>\u201d is could be explained quite easily, the first stem \u201c<strong>Blin<\/strong>\u201d and its variations \u201cBlen\u201d, \u201cBlyn\u201d, or \u201cBlend\u201d are not so simple to explain. In order to rule out or confirm its common-noun origin, it was necessary to consult the aforementioned dictionaries, as well as other Scandinavian language dictionaries. As it turned out, similarly spelled words do not correspond in any way to the ones mentioned. The closest words \u2014 \u201c<em>Blindur<\/em>\u201d (blind, unclear), \u201c<em>Blinda<\/em>\u201d (blindness), and \u201c<em>Blina<\/em>\u201d (fistula, blister) \u2014 are too distant from the first stem of the <strong>Blinstrub<\/strong> surname.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thus, having ruled out a common-noun origin, the version mentioned in the description by the Linguistics Department of the University of Copenhagen is confirmed: a place name derived from a Viking personal name.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, <strong>Blinstrup<\/strong> or <strong>Blenstrup<\/strong> is the name of a homestead, manor, or small village named after a Viking named <strong>Blen<\/strong> or <strong>Blin<\/strong>. Over time, this place name became the surname of a person whose descendant&#8217;s daughters arrived in \u017demaitija in the 16th century. It is also important to note that both the word \u201c<strong>Thorp<\/strong>\u201d and its later form \u201c<strong>Trup<\/strong>\u201d, although written with the letter <strong>P<\/strong>, are pronounced with a <strong>B<\/strong> sound \u2014 [\u02c8t\u0252\u02d0b] and [tr\u0325\u028ab] \u2014 which etymologically brings it even closer to the current form of our family name Blinstrub.<\/p>\n<p>More about the Blenstrup villages in the Kingdom of Denmark, from where our maternal lineage most likely originated, can be found in the section \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blinstrubas.com\/index\/en\/blinstrub-family\/blenstrup-village\/\">Blenstrup Villages<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tautvilas (Towtwil)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Information about Duke <strong>Tautvilas<\/strong> and his descendants, the <strong>Towtwilowicz<\/strong> family, can be found in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blinstrubas.com\/index\/en\/blinstrub-family\/towtwil-and-towtwils\/\">separate section<\/a>. Here we attempt to research and clarify the origin of the personal name <strong>Tautvilas<\/strong> through the rather limited science of Lithuanian anthroponymy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tautvilas<\/strong> is an ancient Lithuanian two-stem personal name. It originated as the name of a duke\u2019s son, later became the surname of his descendants (<em>Towtwil<\/em> or <em>Towtwilowicz<\/em>), and in the modern world has once again become a given Lithuanian name. Its etymology is quite simple and easy to explain. The first stem <em>Taut-<\/em> means \u201cnation\u201d or \u201cpeople\u201d, while the second stem <em>-vil<\/em> means \u201chope\u201d. This is explained by both the linguist Kazimieras B\u016bga (1879\u20131924) and one of the first Lithuanian specialists in anthroponymy, professor Antanas Salys (1902\u20131972).<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_3_placeholder\n<p>Kazimieras B\u016bga: &#8220;Dr. Jonas Sp\u016bdulis, already in 1883\u201384, observed that such surnames as, for example: <em>Butrym, Kontrym, Montrym, Narbut, Nargie\u0142\u0142o, Butowt, Kontowt, Surmont, Dyrmont, Montwi\u0142, Montowt<\/em> and so on, are compound, in other words \u2014 two-stem.&#8221;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_4_placeholder\n<p>Kazimieras B\u016bga: &#8220;Our Lithuanian surnames (not nicknames!) are of two types: one-stem, non-compound, and two-stem, compound.<br \/>\nJust as one-stem surnames, so too two-stem surnames \u2014 some of them have a clear origin (etymology) that is immediately understandable to every Lithuanian, while others are unclear.&#8221;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_5_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Taut-<\/strong> : taut\u00e0 ; &#8211;&nbsp; \u2018country, land\u2019.<br \/>\nI. Lith. : <em>Tautg\u00e1ila, Tautg\u00ednas, Tautgirdas, Tautkantas, Tautm\u00ecnas, Tautr\u00ecmas, Tautva\u0129\u0161as<\/em>.<br \/>\nPr. : <em>Tautm\u00eclas, Tautnarvas<\/em>.<br \/>\nII. Lith. : B\u00e1rtautas, B\u00f9tautas, E\u0129tautas, Ga\u0169tautas, G\u00e1tautas, G\u0117tautas, Ge\u0129stautas, Ge\u0129tautas, G\u0117\u0303stautas, G\u00ecrstautas, G\u00ecrtautas, G\u00fdtautas, G\u00f3tautas, G\u00f3stautas, Gr\u00ecntautas, G\u00f9stautas, G\u00f9tautas, J\u00f3tautas, J\u00f9ntautas, K\u00e1stautas, K\u00ecntautas, K\u00ecrstautas, K\u00fdtautas, Ma\u0129tautas, Ma\u00f1tautas, M\u0105\u0303stautas, M\u0105\u0303tautas, M\u00ecntautas, M\u00ecntautas, N\u00f3 rtautas, N\u00f9tautas, Pr\u00ecetautas, R\u00ecmtautas, R\u00e1tautas, S\u00e1\u00f1tautas, Sa\u0169tautas, S\u00ecntautas, S\u00ecrtautas, Va\u0129\u0161tautas, Vi\u1ebd\u0161tautas, V\u00ecltautas, V\u00f3stautas, \u017d\u00ecntautas, \u017d\u00f3stautas, \u017d\u00f9tautas.<br \/>\nPr. : <em>J\u00f3stautas, Va\u0129\u0161tautas.<\/em>&#8221;<br \/>\nExplanation of abbreviations:<br \/>\n<strong>Taut-<\/strong> \u2014 the first stem, derived from tauta (\u201cnation\u201d, \u201cpeople\u201d, \u201ccountry\u201d).<br \/>\nLith. = Lithuanian (Lietuvi\u0173)<br \/>\nPr. = Prussian (Pr\u016bs\u0173)<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_6_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Vil-<\/strong> : vilt\u00ecs. &#8211; \u2018hope\u2019.<br \/>\nI. Lith. : Vilbutas, Vilbudas, Vilg\u00e1ila, Vilgardas, Vilmantas, Viltautas, Viltilas.<br \/>\nII. Lith. : Ar\u0161vilas, B\u00fdvilas, B\u00f9dvilas, B\u00f9rvilas, D\u00e1rgvilas, Da\u0169gvilas, D\u00f3vilas, Dra\u0169dvilas, Ei(t)vilas, E\u0155dvilas, Ga\u0169vilas, Galvilas, G\u0117\u0301dvilas, Ge\u0129dvilas, G\u00eclvilas, G\u00ecndvilas, G\u00f9dvilas, J\u00f3gvilas, J\u00f3tvilas, Ka\u0169tvilas, Ki\u00e3tvilas, K\u00fdvilas, Ma\u00f1vilas, M\u0105\u0303(t)vilas, Ska\u0169dvilas, Ste\u0129gvilas, \u0160\u00ecrvilas, Ta\u0169vilas, Ta\u0159vilas, Tautvilas, Vi\u1ebd\u0161vilas, Vi\u0161vilas, Visvilas.<br \/>\nPr. : \u00c1rvilas, Ga\u0169dvilas, J\u00f3vilas, Ka\u0169tvilas, N\u00e9rvilas, Pr\u00e9vilas, Ra\u0129tvilas.&#8221;<br \/>\nNotes:<br \/>\n<strong>Vil-<\/strong> comes from the Lithuanian word vilt\u00ecs (\u201chope\u201d).<br \/>\nThis section lists ancient Baltic two-stem personal names containing the element -vilas (or its variants).<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_7_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of the surnames derived from ancient two-stem personal names that survive today are found in \u017demaitija (Samogitia):<br \/>\n<em>Alminas, Butrimas, Gedminas, Gedrimas, Mantvydas, Milkantas, Kantautas, Ringaila, Sobutas, Sudmantas, Tautvydas, Tautvilas, Vai\u0161taras, Vosbutas, \u017dadvydas, \u017dutautas<\/em>, &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Note:<br \/>\nThe name Tautvilas is highlighted in yellow in the image.<br \/>\nThis passage confirms that the surname Tautvilas belongs to the group of ancient Lithuanian two-stem names that have been preserved particularly well in the \u017demaitija region \u2014 exactly as mentioned in your family history text about the Blinstrubs de Towtwil lineage.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Zigmas Zinkevi\u010dius explains the personal name <strong>Tautvilas<\/strong> in exactly the same way (Zigmas Zinkevi\u010dius \u2013 Lithuanians: Past Greatness and Decline, 2013).<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_8_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Tautvilas<\/strong>. Mindaugas\u2019s brother. A son of K\u0119stutis, the duke of Naugardukas Tautvilas also got this name;&nbsp; who later upon baptism received the name Konradas (Konrad).<br \/>\nThis is an ancient Lithuanian two-stem personal name, compound, formed from the stems Taut- (cf. next to Vytautas) and -vilas (related to viltis \u2013 hope).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Antanas Salys also explains how important the parents\u2019 choice was when selecting a name for their child.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_9_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In ancient times, a personal name was not merely an empty label. It was believed that the name given to a child could influence his fate. For this reason, names were chosen very carefully or newly created with great deliberation. In a name, people wanted to express the characteristic features of the newborn\u2019s future character and the qualities valued by the entire tribe. By giving a name to a child, the parents expressed their own hopes and wishes. A name was equal to a person\u2019s dignity; it embodied the very essence of the person. The nation clearly preserved this ancient magical meaning of the name and passed it down through generations. In old times, the formula \u201cFulfill my wish, as your true name declares\u201d was very common. Cf. our old term varduoti = to name, to call by name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After analyzing all of these sources, we can have no doubt that Grand Duke K\u0119stutis, when choosing the name <strong>Tautvilas<\/strong> for one of his last children, saw in him a great leader of Lithuania Kingdom. And although fortune smiled more upon Tautvilas\u2019s older brother Vytautas, and fate decreed an early death and undeserved undervaluation in Lithuanian history, <strong>Tautvilas<\/strong>, as a personality, deserves proper remembrance. Had his death not come so early, there is no doubt that after Vytautas\u2019s death, the helm of the Lithuanian Kingdom would have been taken over by his brother <strong>Tautvilas<\/strong>, who had learned from him much and greatly respected him. And Lithuania would most likely have re-established itself once again as a fully independent kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blintrubs de Towtwil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After deep research of Danish and Lithuanian anthroponyms, we conclude that full surname <strong>Blinstrub de Towtwil<\/strong> should be classified as a double two-stem personal name (in other words, a surname with a linear byname). Unfortunately, neither Professor Antanas Salys, nor Professor Zigmas Zinkevi\u010dius, nor Vitalija Maciejauskien\u0117 examined this type of double surname \u2014 which belonged exclusively to the nobility. In their scholarly works, they classified such surnames as unclear. However, when all the elements are combined, we arrive precisely at the definition mentioned above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surname Blinstrubs de Towtwil is a double (compound) personal name that originated in \u017demaitija (Samogitia) in the second half of the 16th century, when the Danish-origin Blinstrub family merged with the descendants of Duke Tautvilas (Conrad Towtwil), son of Grand Duke K\u0119stutis and brother of Vytautas. 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