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

[Thelionsarecoming]

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!

Mcnamara. I’ve akways loved it. Such a lovely surname!

Kilpatrick
Or
Wolfe

Black. You would never have to spell it and it sounds pretty cool with my first name

What’s your middle name? A friend in similar position just dropped surname and took her own middle name as her new surname.

Cholmondley-Warner

Fox (nn Foxy!)
Crawford
King
Turner
Reynolds
Hargreaves
O'Hara

Something from a book you loved as a child?
Name if a favourite book character? (I would choose Blackett after Nancy Blackett)
A real life heroine (Parkes, Curie, Nightingale)
An aspiration: Hope, Goode, Grace,

O’dell. I remember a film character (I think from Shes all that?) and her name was Taylor O’dell and I loved it.
Moriarty is a great suggestion! I would maybe go for your favourite book character or author.

Brzęczyszczykiewicz

I've always wanted to be called Gillespie

Jackson

Another Gillespie here!
Also love Wilde, Wolfe, Summers

Darling

Dotcom.

O'Hanraha-hanrahan

Lol OuEst.

James or Henry

I think I'd go for a place name of somewhere I really loved.

Winterpark.

Not sure if it actually exists as a surname already, but i'd change mine to Winterpark.

I think it'd sound nice with your first name (you mention a woman surnamed Fox with lovely boobs who shared your first name). 3 syllables + 3 syllables it runs nicely together, or shortening your first name so 1 syllable + 3 syllables still works.

Winterpark
Winterpark
Winterpark

I’ve always envied the reporter Damien Grammaticus, so I’d go with Grammaticus.

De Vere
Duvall

Buchanan

I would go for something short and simple that everyone has heard of and has no trouble spelling.
Lewis
Grant
Kent
Scott

I'd try to imply a fictitious link with musicians I admire, in my case Cave, Bargeld or Bowie. Or go Icelandic stick dottir at the end of any chaps Christian name you like.

As a child I always wanted an Italian name such as Ferrari.

Now I would pick Snow