If you go far enough back in the history of Buick, Ford or Suzuki, for example, you’ll find at least one person with those surnames. In some cases you can do this just by looking at who’s in charge today.

Others have given the matter more thought and come up with quite inventive ways of creating names. These, you may agree, are more interesting, and they’re the ones we’re going to be looking at here:

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