Why would you choose to change your name to husband's if it was...

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Cock. Sitting in the doctor's surgery earlier, Mrs (first name) Cock appeared on the board and I couldn't help wondering why you would willingly change your name to it or similar when you have the choice to keep your own name. Would you?

I know of someone who took her husbands name and gave it to her two sons, both of whom are now teenagers and walk around with the surname Cockhead. No joke, why on earth would you do that to yourself let alone the next generation??

That should have been Willey

I knew a Mrs Bastard.
Not B"stard
I can only assume that she used to be Miss Cock

I was involved with a guy with the surname Dick - after we split we both went on to meet the people we'd marry. His DW has actually changed her name amazingly... I wouldn't have

As someone who was in a job where you had to use surnames I give you ........... Mr Kunt . Although it is apparently dutch.

Ahh I love some of these and reminded me how I had to keep very tight lipped when I was at hospital the other week and a patient by the name of "Mr Finger" was called in 😂😂😂

I worked with a lady who double barrelled her surname with her husbands, and combined with her first name, her initials were KKK.

To answer the 'why' - I know someone who married a bloke with a fairly rubbish surname. She took it because she had kids from two previous relationships. She had married man 1, took his name, had kids, divorced, kept the name. Then she had another child with man2, who had her dad's name (child's dad's name obv). When she married my friend she took his name as she didn't want to revert to her maiden name after decades, or ask him to take her 1st husband's name (leaving child of man 2 as the only one with that surname). So they are the x-y-z family.

This has reminded me that I used to work with some whose name was Hiscock and she married a man called Hiscox. Very confusing.

My mum worked for a Mr Smelt years ago and his wife took his name. I suppose it's not as bad as Cock though!

I also went to school with a Burke, Pratt and a Pain! All hated their names.

I like some of the old names, I'd have been a Gubbins or Clutterbuck quite happily. I know someone who married a Kill, she changed her name, worst thing was she's a nurse!

I took my DH name but that's cause I hate my maiden name, we did consider both of us changing our names together but it was so much grief we didn't bother.

My dc had a temporary headteacher last year. He was called Mr. Shufflebottom. In the 1st assembly when he introduced himself he explained the meaning of his name (something to do with sheep shuffling down a hill) - as a teacher and headteacher he must've had years of pupils and parents sniggering at his name so got in there first!

Windlass has got to be the worst!

Windass I meant not Windlass!

DH's doctor used to be Dr Dick Soper.

Nice chap. Hilarious name. He chose to go by the name Dick instead of Richard

I see your Cocks and Hiscox and raise you ...HYMEN . Do I beat the internet?

The registrar who married us, and registered the birth of our first child, was Mrs De'ath.

Guilty of parting with a slightly awkward maiden name and taking husband's delightfully common unobjectionable one.

Threads like this make memorised that all the surnames in my family are deeply ordinary.

Quite like Clutterbuck and Gubbins actually, but I agree about the dreadfulness of Mrs Dick or Mrs Cockhead, just why?

My SiL had a teacher called Miss Smellie, I would literally have changed that if I were a teacher.

I knew a Podiatrist who married another Podiatrist whose name was 'Nutter'. They set up in practice as Mrs & Mrs Nutter. About 2 years later we heard they'd changed both their names by deedpoll to Brown or something equally ordinary.
I've had patients called 'Fuchs' - pronounced 'Fooks' - Longbottom, Shortbottom, Blood, Coffin, Onion - pronounced 'oh-nion' - and Scroggins.

? My post should say "make me relieved" stupid ipad

If your name is Onion or Death or Sidebottom tho, just own it, none of this Oh-Nion or De'ath or Sid-ay-bott-ohm (yes really, I knew these people)

Fuchs is just German for fox.

I wouldn't care to have the other names though. If my name was that bad I'd have changed it long ago.

Quite a few years ago a friend who had just starting teaching was having trouble with a particular form of 14 year-old boys. (Quite posh area
He asked the ringleader his name and got the reply 'Wanker, sir.'
Turned out it was a real name, it was German and spelt Wanke, presumably correctly pronounced Vank-uh.
I suspect the class had great fun with it with every time they got a new teacher.
Knew a Dick Ayres. Not inaptly named.

A local bakery was called Glasscocks.

Nquarts I had a health visitor with the double barrelled name /something/ - stillborn. Always seemed highly inappropriate to me, and to actually double barrel it!

I always think surely for work she could have just gone for the other name on it's own.she must come into contact with families that have suffered the tragedy of a still birth on a fairly regular basis