To ask you for your favourite surnames?

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No real reason why!

I've always loved McQueen and Fairbanks.

I don’t know a single person with any of the surnames mentioned here!

I haven’t given it too much thought really, but I do quite like DP’s surname - Bailey

Cash!

My surname has been mentioned

I've met a Goodchild, a Goodenough and a Sweetlove.

I'd like Delaney/Dalmalley.

Awww my maiden name has been mentioned I love Devine; I dated a guy with that surname and was gutted when he dumped me as I wanted to marry him for the name. We were 12 😂

Devereux

Sidebottom

Jackson as it goes with everything!

Mr Argument. I would say where and when I met him but that would be outing.

I used to know a lady called Nikki Tickle. I was so so jealous of her name.

Miller
Copeland
Kettering
Riley
Faulkner
Holden
Valentine
Astor
Garner
Carey

Montagu

Foljambe - Georgie's maid in "Mapp and Lucia".

My own as it is uncommon, at least in Australia.

Lutyens
Snowball
Melody

I love both my maiden and married last names because of the history involved. Same with my mother's maiden name.

My maiden name is Kastelic (pronounced Ka-STELL-ick - emphasis on the second syllable). It's an Anglicized version of a Slovenian name. Apparently it means "from the castle".

My married name, Goudman (GOWD-man, not GOOD-man), is a Dutch version of Goldman. Hubby has some Jewish ancestry. A Jewish rabbi told my FIL that the Jewish people retained the genealogy records in their oral history, and people with the last name Goldman are descendants of Aaron, the brother of Moses in the Bible. We think this is very special.

My mother's maiden name is van der Sloot (she's of Dutch descent on her father's side). It means "from the ditch". About 7 generations before me we have records of a child being found abandoned in a ditch. This is recorded on his marriage certificate: "Father unknown. Foundling." We do have records of his mother; there is evidence that she gave birth in secret and then abandoned the infant. Some years ago we learned that the sickle cell anemia gene runs in the family - I don't carry it, but some of Mum's relatives do. We suspect that it is possible that our ancestor was a mixed racial child, which of course was not acceptable AT ALL at that time, and that this was the reason his mother abandoned him.

Winterpark- cos it's bloody lovely.
Deathridge - went to school with a Grace Feathridge, she was awesome.

A pp mentioned names that are terribly posh that brought to mind Ralph Feinnes. His full name is something along the lines of Ralph Twistleton-Wickham-Feinnes gorgeous!

I love watching film credits at the end of films (dvd at home, not sitting in the dark alone at the flicks cos everyone else has gone home!) and looking at people's names. Entwistle is great. Baumgartner.

Also short names: Fox, Lane, Reeve, Ford. Punchy and traditional.

Love Goldman. I like all "Gold" names though... Goldsmith, Goldstein etc.

Can relate to those with dead common surnames. Mine is one of those Smith, Jones type names. Probably also why I get surname often!

Starr that's an awesome last name!

Rockefeller definitely! Too cool.

Firth. I would very much like to be Mrs Firth. Although I have recently discovered the name Hammer, and I would also like to be Mrs Hammer. It's quite the conundrum. I may have had some tonight so apologies.

I love my mother’s family name, which was Boryer.
I used to think about changing my name but I have always loved my father’s name, too, which is Forsythe. And his mother was a Farquhar, which is also lovely.
As for surnames not in my family that I like, agree with all the Cornish ones and Golightly.

Von Anything.

I used to know a Mr Brilliant, which is pretty good.

I like Winter as well.

Love the surnames Wolfenden and D'Arcy. Oh, and Rose. So pretty!

I know a Dove family. I think that’s lovely.

I grew up with an Irish surname with lots of supurfluous vowels. Now I use dh’s really common traditional occupation name (Like Walker, Baker etc). I’ve always fancied McKenzie though as a good balance between unusual and common.

I once has a fking with a Bedggood.

My own surname is very unusual and I like that.

Agree the Cornish names are good, although I wonder if that's because so many of us come across them first in literature rather than meeting people with those names.

I've got a fondness for surnames like Clutterbuck. I suspect it might die out because people don't like the meaning but it sounds like the kind of name a hobbit would have.

Urquhart
Thurkettle
Jessop
Whalebone (legitimately know someone with this surname)