Strange Surnames

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Used to work in customer services. Three surnames have never left my brain:
Mrs Wildgoose
Mr Gotobed
Mr and Mrs D’eath.

Please share the weird and wonderful surnames you own or have heard. Apologies if your surname is one I’ve listed.

I knew someone called Patricia who was usually known as Pat. She married someone whose surname was Mycock and very quickly insisted that she be Patricia from them on.

Other surnames:
Uren
Tickles, problematic when your first name is Tess.

I was born a Cock...changed my name by deed poll at 16. When I went to uni there was a girl on my course whose family name had been Tit, although her parents had changed it before she was born.

Reading this thread I think we both got off quite lightly!

Snowball

We have some interesting local surnames where I live. Lots of Urens, Friggens and Treblicocks.

I work in customer service

We have a Miss Didcock

Also have a Mrs Christmas

I know a Dr De'ath. But he's an academic rather than a medical doctor. Could imagine that would be disconcerting.

And everybody's favourite dinner lady at my infant school was a Mrs Onions.

@MintyCedric

I was born a Cock...changed my name by deed poll at 16. When I went to uni there was a girl on my course whose family name had been Tit, although her parents had changed it before she was born.

Reading this thread I think we both got off quite lightly!

I dont think so! I cant think of a worse sur name than cock 😭

When I worked in mortgages I had to amend someone's name after they got married. She went from Miss Thick to Mrs Smart

@AdditionalCharacter

When I worked in mortgages I had to amend someone's name after they got married. She went from Miss Thick to Mrs Smart

@ThisIsNotARealAvo if you went to SS I know Alan very well. He's unfortunately in a home with dementia.

Vaguely connected two lovely women I was at school with are now known as Dr. Mistry-Pain (urologist) and Dr. Love.

I once met a Penny Shilling and I also know a Jo King. Some parents are very unkind...

Pupui
Prounounced poo
Poo 😂

The Sidebottom's in our extended family say it as Sid-e-bottoom 🙄🙄

I had a teacher called Mr Meaney but he was the opposite of his surname, a real good teacher

I once knew a lady who was a dental hygienist and also a chiropodist

Her surname was seegrot - appropriate for both jobs !!

I knew a Cockshutt once and a Shufflebottom.

Our local plumber is Pete Crapper and sons... always makes me wonder if he chose his trade to go with his name

My own maiden name was Tough... the jokes were pretty tedious and I was glad to get married for a better name! On the other hand we were easy to find.. there were only 3 Toughs in the local phone directory.. and they were either my Dad or one of his ex wives

Pratt
Dick Paine
Jerreat
Yamanaka (but not that unusual in Japan where her husband came from)

Oh and yes, I do also know a Cakebread and a Wildgoose

Mr Plonka

I had a teacher called Mrs longbottom. We used to call her Mrs short arse instead.

@AintOverUntilTheCatLadySings - I had a Mrs Willy teacher too - she wasn't Scottish teaching in Hampshire by any chance was she? Primary school

I had a student once who had the surname Christmas.

There's a Dr Dick Beatty in our city. He's a vasectomist! After the procedure he gives the men a stubby holder with the words "I got the snip with Dr Dick"

I met a Dawn Bathroom once and I also had a call come up when I worked in a call centre for Ben Dingwall.