Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Original poster

If you could chose a new surname what would you go for?

155 replies

Thelionsarecoming · 31/08/2018 23:17

I need a new one.

No contact with family so I don’t want to go back to my maiden name. Divorced from husband and he is getting remarried so I don’t want his name either.

I don’t know where to start with looking for a new one.

My mother’s maiden name is awful and so is her mothers!

OP posts:
NoCureForLove · 31/08/2018 23:19

Valentine!

JustGiveMeTwoMinutes · 31/08/2018 23:20

Armitage

flissypix · 31/08/2018 23:21

Lowry I love the way it sounds. I hated my maiden name if I didn't take my dh name I would have changed it to this before kids so they didn't have my name.

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about this subject:

Families
Original poster
Thelionsarecoming · 31/08/2018 23:23

I know a Lowry already, Valentine is good!! Armitage wouldn’t go with my name

OP posts:
SavageBeauty73 · 31/08/2018 23:24

Hope

alltalknobaby · 31/08/2018 23:24

Bond 😎

Wigeon · 31/08/2018 23:25

Have aimlessly pondered this before, I would be Quinn. Or Silver.

smurfandturf · 31/08/2018 23:25

Moriarty for me!

CatRen27 · 31/08/2018 23:26

Fox! Always loved that as a surname.

Grasslands · 31/08/2018 23:28

do a little bit of ancestry research and see if there is something you connect with.
i like (and have a very basic one) so Smith/Paul/Jones/James etc
easy to spell, rarely misunderstood.

Juststopit · 31/08/2018 23:29

Mucklowe :)

FissionChips · 31/08/2018 23:29

Estevez

Original poster
Thelionsarecoming · 31/08/2018 23:29

Quinn....oooo I like that

Hope is good too

Moriarty I’m not so sure about

Fox would have an unfortunate connection to a lady with nice breasts Wink

OP posts:
Original poster
Thelionsarecoming · 31/08/2018 23:31

Grasslands, that was my initial idea but I had no idea where to start. I got up to my grandmothers maiden name and then asked her her mother’s maiden name and she wanted to know why and shook her head at “modern nonsense” Hmm

OP posts:
StephenStrange · 31/08/2018 23:32

I’d love to do this! I have no reason to, but I’d love to be called Holloway or Cavendish

MarthasGinYard · 31/08/2018 23:33

D'uvall

DramaAlpaca · 31/08/2018 23:34

I'd choose Marvell or Merivale, from a book by Violet Needham that I loved as a child.

Deadringer · 31/08/2018 23:36

Darcy.

NigelGresley · 31/08/2018 23:37

Well that’s easy. Poldark GrinGrin

MrsMolehillMountain · 31/08/2018 23:39

Percy
Howard
Tudor
Banks

BevBrook · 31/08/2018 23:42

Carmichael, Crewe, Carlisle or Meredith.

TittyGolightly · 31/08/2018 23:45

Minogue.

MorvaanReed · 31/08/2018 23:46

Lyster. It's a family name from a few generations back.

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 31/08/2018 23:46

Rothschild

CloudCaptain · 31/08/2018 23:47

I quite like Featherstone