What's your favourite surname?

[OrangeLavenders]

I'm divorcing DH soon and hoping to just change my name to something I like. I've been saddled with his since the age of 18

What's your favourite surname? I think I might go with 'Knight'

I once dated someone called Devine. Was glad to get rid of him but disappointed not to get his surname as my married name!

@midwifeync

I quite like Spencer... Lady Spencer! Sounds faaancy

Well Princess Diana was Lady Diana Spencer.

Fox is great - easy to remember; quite near the start of the alphabet ( if that matters for being chosen for things); good, if you go into business, to illustrate for a logo or make part of a company name ( 'sea fox:, 'the baking fox').

Aldridge is nice too.

We shunted our surnames together, so we're the only two people in the world with our surname!

I like:
King
Best
Cotton
Smart
Bowler

@JanewaysBun - that saying is exactly why I mentioned the name.

The right way, the wrong way and the Janeway! Perfection.

Carmichael
I went to school with a Carmichael but they pronounced it Cami-shell.
I also went on school with a Winterbottom, who insisted it was pronounced Winter-botham.
So, in the spirit of unconventional pronunciations, why not go for Featherstonehaugh (Fanshawe)?

I used to know a Davenport. Lovely. Just the right amount of posh

Oh dear, I've gone completely off subject, my fave surname would be Godbehere, and I'm a heretic!

Love Cavendish! Also:

Calverly
Evans
Williams
Edwards
Fitzwilliam

Don't have any reasons for any of them, just like the way they sound!

Beauchamp
Porteous
Flavell
Powell
Strachan

[quote SciFiScream]@JanewaysBun - that saying is exactly why I mentioned the name.

The right way, the wrong way and the Janeway! Perfection. [/quote]
Not for poor old Tuvix 😉

Rothschild?

Turtle. All time fave

Huggins
Goggins
Diamond
I know a Rainbow-Diamond and I am twisted with envy.

Definitely Valentine!

I always wanted to meet a 'Mr Valentine'!

If I could choose, I'd have Montgomery, it brings a certain something to every forename.

I worked with someone who's surname was Lovely. And she was.
And I went to school with someone who had the surname Phoenix which I always thought was pretty cool and superhero-ish

Hope

Carrington, St.Clare

Fortescue - Smythe, I know someone with a cat called this and it makes me smile.

Digweed. There's a village churchyard a couple of miles from where we live that's full of them. Still going, DS was at school with the latest generation of them.

Didn't "Fitz" names designate illegitimacy?
So Bob Fitzwilliam was the illegitimate son of William

Ps

Love your idea of changing your surname. I always hated that my surname was my dad's ( we didn't get on), and his dad's ( a drunk who left the family)

I like Taylor. I like alliterative names so many a surname that starts with the same letter as your first name. McElhone is my favourite surname of all time.

I like my Eastern European married name... I like to be thought of as forrin!

But if I had to pick a new one, it’d be Gillespie. I’ve always loved Gillespie.