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Worst surnames?

89 replies

smother · 16/02/2011 15:28

So we've had a thread recently about the best surnames, and I was wondering what the worse ones you've come across are.

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InnocentRedhead · 18/02/2011 08:08

At school i knew a Mr Brown, not that bad, you may think but when his first name is Ash...

BaggedandTagged · 18/02/2011 08:08

I always wonder why Ed Balls didn't change his name by deed poll once he decided he had aspirations to be the PM.

Currently, he's just making life too easy for the headline writers.

cocoachannel · 18/02/2011 08:02

I have a friend who swears blind he went to school with a boy whose surname was Sprout. First name? Why, Russell, of course.

fridakahlo · 18/02/2011 03:59

A realtor we met was called Dickstein, I kid you not!

saffy85 · 18/02/2011 03:51

Cocks- Was once a customer of mine

Cleverly but only because her first name was Beverley.

reelingintheyears · 17/02/2011 23:16

Cobbledick.
Goodbody.
Ramsbottom.
Aldwinkle.
Raper.
Hawe.
Dunny.

There must be hundreds more.

whysolate · 17/02/2011 21:52

Grocock
Snowball
Bertie
Hussey

I grew up with an unfortunate surname. My dad said it was "character building" Hmm

GibberingGinger · 17/02/2011 21:50

There was a lady who I used to deliver papers to as a teenager called Mrs Trollope. Awful surname

mouffloncake · 17/02/2011 21:45

I had a client called Brenda Bender - seriously!

knitpicker · 17/02/2011 17:38

I knew a Danish girl whose surname was Klitguard.
ROLF at Butkis

Trinaluce · 17/02/2011 17:25

I work for the appointments dept in a hospital so I get to see a lot of unfortunate surnames. Unfortunately I also have to ring them and ask to speak to them....

Recently:
Bottoms
Butkis
Hoare
Hooker
Glasscock
Badcock
Goodcock

And many years ago in another business we had Mrs Starwarz. When I rang her I got a very curt 'It's Sta-vash'....

Odelay · 17/02/2011 14:51

Our headmaster was treblecock but pronounces treebeelco

Local headmaster now is dick head, yes Richard head actually calls himself dick. The mind boggles

I knew a John hoare. He changed it in his late teens to his mothers maiden name

YeahWhatevah · 17/02/2011 14:43

Sacha (Bender) may have been a diminutive of Alexander. Better Sacha than A. Bender.

glittershoes · 17/02/2011 14:38

I know a Dick Tingle and a Jim Dick.

DelicateFluffyBunny · 16/02/2011 23:26

My maiden name is Dick. Spent my highschool years being asked if my middle name was Sucks or Loves. Oh the hilarity. Hmm

QwertyQueen · 16/02/2011 23:24

Cockburn

pronounced "coburn" - how convenient!

Also a Richard Kiss
who actually had his shortened name -Dick - on his business card!

preghead · 16/02/2011 23:12

I work with someone called sacha bender, never met him face to face, just conf calls, really it hard not to snort when he comes on and announces himself

timetomove · 16/02/2011 23:09

Rank.
Didn't help that she had a lisp...

heffalumpbump · 16/02/2011 23:02

Went to school with a girl called:

Emma Widdefucher (pronouced widefucker)

Think family were of Arican decent. None of us believed it when she first started... Poor girl. (blush)

HeartShapedValiumSandwich · 16/02/2011 21:47

Condon, Hoare, Cox, all quite normal in Ireland. But Condon is virtually the same as condom so I wouldn't wish that on a school girl. Hoare, dreadful, change it fgs.

HeartShapedValiumSandwich · 16/02/2011 21:45

Knew a guy call Niblock and he was called Noblick for 6 years.

Wattinger · 16/02/2011 19:39

I had a primary school teacher called Mrs Raper.

justmilkpleasenosugar · 16/02/2011 19:37

Waddle...

quack quack...!!

Deaddei · 16/02/2011 19:22

TItball.
that was the name of our head librarian when I was a child.
A spinster, bless her.

ThatScrotumCat · 16/02/2011 19:21

My Hs uncle is called Dixie (Dix) Hiscock & he married a lady called Phyliss but shes known as Phil. What a couple!

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