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If you could choose your surname...

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ButterflyOfFreedom · 15/11/2019 14:53

...what would it be?

A bit random I know but sometimes I hear a surname and think 'ooh, that's a good one'!

Mine is pretty comical but definitely could be worse... though if I could choose, I'd go for Cathcart or Brocklebank! Smile

What would you pick?

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CharitySchmarity · 15/11/2019 21:13

I've had two surnames that are hard to spell and pronounce so I'd go for something simple, but possibly with a nice meaning connected with nature. Wood, Lake, Stone, something like that.

Bananablueberry · 15/11/2019 21:07

I had a friend in primary school with with surname Swan and I always thought it was lovely

LostInTheColonies · 15/11/2019 20:57

Our local graveyard includes the grave of one Honour Christmas. Wouldn't want the name, but it is rather fabulous!

saveallyourkisses · 15/11/2019 20:54

I really like my surname now, and quite liked my maiden name. My married surname is of french origin and sounds lovely with lots of names so I feel very lucky.
I did hear about a boy with the surname Tinkerlily when I was at school, and thought that was lovely 😊

Teenangels · 15/11/2019 20:48

I have no idea what name I would choose or want, although I think it would be a simple because my bloody last name is so stupidly spelt that I say my last name and spell it straight away, it has 2 silent letters in it!

I also someone called Fox and it makes me chuckle

IDontWantToCookTonight · 15/11/2019 20:46

are you stuck in the 1950’s, dear?

No, dear. I just don’t give a flying pigs shite about the whole ‘why can’t women propose’ shite. Not even on a leap year. I’m not going to fall in the lap of everyone else’s ‘it’s 2019, equality, non binary, pansexual’ and whatever other utter rubbish that is today’s ‘normal’.

I want a proposal, the ring, the white dress and the piece of paper to make it legal.

Why is it so frowned upon to want a proposal from a man now?ConfusedHmm

managedmis · 15/11/2019 20:42

Tattersall
Fitzpatrick

CampfireZen · 15/11/2019 20:41

Was struck by surname of a broadcast journalist the other day: Marinangeli.
(even lovelier when pronounced in his strong Italian accent!).

Makes me think of the sea and angels.

FrancesFlute · 15/11/2019 20:40

Mrs Rose

keepingbees · 15/11/2019 20:38

I quite fancy Valentine. Sounds pretty and romantic.
Or something fancy like De Witt Bukater off Titanic Grin

AllTheWhoresOfMalta · 15/11/2019 20:38

I don’t mind my name- either my maiden name that I use for work or my married one- but I’ve always fancied one of those literal ones like Drinkwater or Inkpen.

TiceCream · 15/11/2019 20:37

I worked with someone who had the surname Devine. Always thought it sounded lovely!

motortroll · 15/11/2019 20:31

I can think of loads I WOULDNT have! My uni housemates surname was O'Cock!!

I think I'd like something faintly ridiculous but not mortifying.....I like Higginbottom which was a neighbours surname when I was young!

mistermagpie · 15/11/2019 20:27

I would like Fox to be my surname! I went to school with a boy who's surname was Aqualina and I always liked that too.

AnotherDFSsale · 15/11/2019 20:21

I would love the surname King! Feels very superiorGrin

Shalom23 · 15/11/2019 20:18

Bronte.

northernknickers · 15/11/2019 20:14

I had a teacher called Miss Flowerdown. She was really pretty and kind...her name suited her. She got married and became Mrs Pickle...which made us all laugh. Both great names for different reasons.

I used to work with a teacher called Miss Biggadyke (not even joking!!). Bloody brilliant name...luckily it was a primary school though, as you can imagine the hilarity that would ensue after every utterance of 'yes Miss Biggadyke' in high school 😳

Thanksgiving2019 · 15/11/2019 20:12

I share my unusual name with a famous internationally known sportsman and we are distant relatives (second cousins). I am always being asked «ohhh are you related to xx?» And then I get bombarded with questions when I just want to pay for my pint of milk.
Smile

So sometimes I think how nice it would be to be a Smith and not have to field questions.

NeedAnExpert · 15/11/2019 20:11

I’d choose my DP’s, after 6 years and counting. He still won’t fucking propose to me.

Are you stuck in the 1950s, dear?

IDontWantToCookTonight · 15/11/2019 20:04

I’d choose my DP’s, after 6 years and counting. He still won’t fucking propose to me.

Jokes about proposing, jokes about buying a ring. Says he will propose and wants to spend the rest of his life with me.

Hasn’t followed through.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 15/11/2019 20:02

Tremaine

Collision · 15/11/2019 20:01

My husband aunt was called Claudia Ferrari and I think I could rock that.

Also, Hamilton and Shaw are both nice surnames.

Thetimetravelerswife · 15/11/2019 20:01

“Rose”

Because it makes everything sound pretty...

But otherwise a name of a famous brand or something so people think my family invented it... like
Bentley,
Ferrari,
Cadbury

But maybe not if it’s something like primark, Greggs haha

PrincessLouis · 15/11/2019 19:56

Great q - I like history so would go for a sort of Medieval Lord surname like Norfolk or Nottingham, or a Norman Conquest one like Devereux

beanaseireann · 15/11/2019 19:33

I like Cadogan.

Has anyone ever heard of the surname Duft ?

@bridgetreilly - is your maternal grandmother's maiden name an Irish surname ?