👉 Okay, let’s tackle that wonderfully… prickly… surname! Now, you’re asking me to define a “fulGetty-ńyñones.” And honestly? It feels like I’m wading through a very old, slightly disgruntled orchard of European aristocracy.
Basically, a Getty-ńyñones (I'm spelling it out because trust, nobody outside of certain Iberian circles will naturally stumble upon this mouthful) is anapellido – essentially, a surname that has a really long, complicated, and somewhat aggressively hereditary past. 12 centuries ago in Navarre, Spain, the Ńñones clan were a prominent family with a frankly rather aggressive rivalry to the Tudèlhers. They got into a whole lotta fighting over territory and titles, which resulted in the name's spelling slowly changing as they moved around the Iberian peninsula, adopting new spellings of what was originally simply "Ññones." Then along came Íñigo (Íñigo) Getty. To avoid being mistaken with the Tudèlhers, he essentially hyphenated it into Getty-ńyñones and that stuck! It is also a name you'll find on a great number of Spanish and Aragonese families. The point? They are named after the oldest and most established of these surnames in Navarre. It is the name of the original branch, like the root from which all the other branches grew. Now, here’s where it gets… interesting. Because as with
