Unusual surnames.

[RuthTopp]

For some weird reason I have heard two unusual surnames today , Younghusband and Gotobed . Which ( in a light hearted way ) could be used to formulate a sentence -
" Gotobed younghusband !
What unusual ones do you know ?

I don't want to reveal my own surname, but it's so rare that anyone else with it is either a relative of my husbands or married to one!

Don't want to reveal it but I'm related to everyone who spells their surname the way I do

Well I've never met anyone else with my surname who is not immediate family.

Never met anyone with my surname either minus family obviously

I have encountered an Arsenault recently and wasn't sure how to pronounce it.

Also, a McCool

I've never met anyone but family with my maiden name either! Some of my cousins have a different very unusual surname too.

Both of those are surnames I would refuse to change to if I married someone with one.

Our surname is unusual, but not unknown and I like it. It's a place name.

I like the surname Goodenough.

My maiden name was sufficiently unusual that I followed the example of a friend and kept it when I married as a second middle name (albeit a very unusual one!)

Mine. There's only 3 people in the world with my name.

'Gotobed' was used in the book 'Carrie's War'.

Like some others on here, everyone who has our surname is related to us in some way.

Used to live next door to Mr & Mrs Honeybun.

Wow saw the title and came to say Gotobed but you already have!!
such a weird one.

I have met a Mr Ovary
mr Chicken
mr Christmas

and anything with Bottom in brings out my childish self

There was a girl at school with the surname Cockburn which she insisted was pronounced co-burn… don’t blame her!
And a Higginbottom which we had to pronounce -botham apparently.

I like Popadec and Pendergast but not sure how unusual they are!

Winterbottom - is that unusual? I went to school with a girl with that surname, it used to make me chuckle (any mention of bottom when you are a kid!)

Same!

I've worked with a Ms Gotobed and Mr Smoker

Me too on surnames! Very outing...

Mine is also only family members.

I like the surname Cakebread - two of my favourite foods!

I see lots of surnames at work. Champagne is one I covet. I’ve seen Younghusband and Marriage.

I once knew a guy who's surname was 'Watchorn' which i thought was odd

Bumstead always makes me giggle.

I was watching the (latest) Trump indictment and noticed that the court where he was appearing is named after Elijah Barrett Prettyman. Another one I noticed recently was Rachel Flowerday (one of the writers for the BBC Malory Towers series).

Probably not ususual, but I used to work with someone with the surname Crook - who changed it legally to Cook when he switched careers to become a financial adviser 😁

scattergood and De-ath
i'm sure there's others i have forgotten!

Most unusual surname I've heard (many years ago) was Pinecoffin

But I also knew a Mr Rainbow growing up (always wanted to marry him for obvious reasons) 😅