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You don't have to go to Hollywood to start calling yourself Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler. You can just do that now, without even leaving your room.
Hell I can be Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler, his name is Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler, her name is Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler...we all are. One big Pickle Wiggler family.
It don't matter. Somewhere back on your lineage someone just decided their last name is now Smith, or whatever. They just said it, and set your surname, hundreds of years ago.
Or some dude at immigration misheard your name so just gave you a new one.
Even your first name...your mom just decided that for you one day. She said "you're gonna be called Pat and I'm gonna have your foreskin cut off" and you just said "waaa" and accepted it.
Either way. Names don't matter. It's all made up by someone. You can (unofficially) change your name anytime you want, but you can't get your original foreskin back.
Lots of last names are occupational names, like your Smith example, so were often a qualifier that others used.
And it seems the immigration story wasn't really that common.
Yes, names like Smith, Schomaker and Tanner come from the family business.
Don't ask about the Dickinsons.
Oh yeah...they were the politicians.
It happened with my last name. They changed it to end with a Y instead of I