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 was at school with a Robin Crook, and hired a car from a woman called Paige Turner once. I don't know her but there's a journalist for Cosmopolitan called Paisley Gilmour, I really hope she gets together and double barrels with a Mr or Ms Street one day.

I have a couple of ancestors called Badcock, which was changed to Baddock in more recent years.

I have met a Hugh Watt,
Sidney Arbour , Daisy Duck and a Min Ji

I had a teacher called Richard Hardon.

DH has a Fanny Fowler and a Thirza Topliss in his family tree.

@EvilEdna1

Dr Smellie

At the law firm I used to work in we would regularly instruct Dr Smellie. Gastro Dr if I recall. Good Dr.

There’s a woman at school called Diana Ying and her personalised number plate is Dy Ying. She could have picked any name too!
I also have a close friend whose maiden name was Dong. I bet she’s pleased she could change that now she doesn’t live in China

Tinycock

Dr Donald Dick.

I don't know if it's funnier that he was called Dr Dick or that it sounded like Donald Duck.

I have always strughled to address the Mr D'eath (pronounced dee-ath) I know!
Mr Pratt
Miss Golightly
Ms Mapplebeck
Mr Willy

Bytheway (pronounced by the way)
Snowball
Dr Mistery (pronounced like mystery which I thought sounded like a superhero/villain)
Twatt
Bustard

Catchpole
Orange
Venus

Best surnames I ever met:

Policeman named Constable Constable

Mrs Strong-Onion

Mrs Box

Dr MacWeenie

Mr I. Ball

Literally peeing at some of these now!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Im just waiting for some one to come on saying they know a undertaker named Mr De'Ath or Mr Bury.
Mrs Reid the librarian.
Mr Stamp the Postman
Mr Bone the Radiologist.
Mr Cook the Chief.
😂😂😂

I once had an accountant named Coyne

I knew of a Dr Kneebone!

When I was small in the early 1970s the Senior Librarian at our library was called Miss Titball. She insisted it was pronounced Tibble. She was pretty scary so nobody dared call her anything else, parents included!

When I first went to the local family planning clinic, the Dr in charge was called Dr Balls. She was lovely.

A colleague of mine back in the early 1990s was called Peter Rabbits. I have no idea what his parents were thinking of. He was in his late 50s when I knew him and he must have had a lifetime of teasing and potential bullying in his school years. Why would you do that to your child?

I once knew of a Cornelius McGillicuddy, which I thought rather splendid.
I've also known a John Thomas and a Richard Cox.

Our mayor in Cardiff has the surname De'Ath. I don't know much about him but I like him cause of his surname.

My ex was a mechanic and worked with a guy whose surname was Wheel. Also the mechanic down the road when I bought my house had the surname of Torque. Nominative determinism in play I think

I know a Knibbs and a Goodsir.

My old Dr was called Dr Doctor and my parents’ gardener is called Kevin Twelvetrees.
Very specific number of trees.

I knew a driving instructor - Mr Driver
A Dr Kidney
Pishorn
Pratt - ds's headmaster
Blackadder
Dolores Parton

I saw a piece of BBC news recently about a couple who had recently got married and double-barrelled their surnames to become White-Christmas

I work with a Dr Dick.
My math teacher was a Mr Micheal Hunt (poor man).
My husbands teacher was a Mrs Ophelia balls.
At school a family of Rolls, with daughters Maya and Iona.

I went to school with Wendy Howes which is a name that I think should have been run through mumsnet before choosing it!