Just for fun, if you were to change your surname...

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What would it be to? I quite like 'Makepeace'. I knew a girl at school whose last name was 'Honeychurch', which is pretty. What would you go for?

Shetland. I’m short, fat and love horses, it’s perfect.

Lovelace, valentine, Rose, winterhalter

Buchanan
De Winter
Blake

For a surname that I don't have to spell to everyone, thanks DH

I'd go for Smith, or Jones. I bet they don't get asked "how do you spell that" on a daily basis.

H's grandfather joined the army underage (so the story went) and changed his surname from Maidwell to a female first name, which is my surname.

I'm happy about that as I don't like his original surname.

My brother lived next door to a Mr and Mrs Giggles - wouldn't mind that one.

Pitstop 🤣

I knew someone who's surnane was Finger.

Montagu, D’Arcy, Westmoreland, Windsor.

Christmas
Carmichael
Fox
Merryweather
Moneypenny
Postlethwaite

I also love looking through the lists of rare surnames, there are some wonderful ones: https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/feature/cool-last-names.

@MrsLizzieDarcy You didn't have to change it if you didn't want a last name that was tricky to spell?

Obviously NOT Mountbatten-Windsor or Trump.

Dangerfield, which was the surname of one of my great-grandparents.

Powers

Wellbeloved or Montague

My actual surname is short, guttural and Anglo-Saxon and needs spelling out. Even then people write how they think it should be spelt and not how it is actually spelt.

I like my surname so I wouldn't want to change it but I do like Savage and Merryweather.

I wonder how that arose? In most surnames, you can discern a place or family of origin, a trade or a profession. Hard to imagine there was a role in ancient Danish society for ... a bird mimic? It's a lovely name!

I have been thinking about this re wtiting under a pseudonym, like Elly Griffiths. Though Domenica da Rosa is also a lovely name.

I always liked Fox and it's a bit like my maiden name. Harriet Fox is lovely but there is already an author who goes by that name.

There's a teacher in DD's school whose surname translates from Finnish to a diminutive for chicken (like say calling a dog "doggy"), and I like to imagine that some hundreds of years ago there was a person that just really liked chickens and that's how they got the name.

One of my mother's friends was called Mrs Chicken.

We also knew the Fox, Mole, Dove, Sparrowhawk and Eagle families, but Chicken was my favourite.

My mother's maiden name was one everyone spelled wrong, she started to date a man who also had a complicated name and ended things before it got serious.

She took my Dad's surname (one of the 5 commonest in the UK) but then gave me a ridiculous spelling of my first name.

I changed it eventually.

If you have to correct people every time you give details to someone it gets old very quickly.

@sashh You can't mean she ended things because she didn't like his last nane?!!!

Lestrange

My dad used to have a friend with the surname Christmas. Being Mrs Christmas would be fun.

We also had neighbours with the surname Devine. That's quite cool.

Personally I'd like to be Mrs Hiddleston. By marriage though 😉

I''m married - firmly NOT a Mrs Anything, even for the "best" last name in existence! 😀

Fairchild

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