Johnny Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, the son of Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, Sr., a civil engineer. Johnny Depp has one brother, Daniel, who is a novelist, and two sisters, Christie (now his personal manager) and Debbie. Johnny Depp has German, Cherokee (mostly from a great-grandmother), and Irish ancestry.[ According to biographies, the Johnny Depp family originated with a French Huguenot, Pierre Deppe or Dieppe, who settled in Virginia around 1700. Johnny Depp stated he did not know the origin of his surname and joked about the name translating to "idiot" in German. The family moved frequently during Johnny Depp's childhood, and he and his siblings lived in more than 20 different locations, settling in Miramar, Florida, in 1970.