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Yes.

Yeah, but why tho?
Like, it was common to teach your son your trade, then shouldn't your entire family be known by that trade?

1. It depends on what time period we think of. 2. Most people were peasants.

Some places the peasants took on the surname of the place they lived in I heard, thu i don't remember where.

Also, different languages had different meanings behind the surnames. See Icelandic surnames.

It depends on the region that they came from, I hate this trope because it is only European from a certain time period in the early medieval era. A lot of people had them but they were common ones like their jobs, or in some regions, their family line was denoted in their name.

Ex. Son = Berg / Father = lettuce / Name = Berg Lettuceson