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Best surnames

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timetomove · 12/02/2011 11:38

Our surname is a bit unwieldy and does not go with some of the names i would have liked for the DCs.

If you could choose your surname, what would it be?

I like westwood or Weston - go with all of our names and pretty much every name I like. Simple and easy to spell without being too common.

Also like Costello if I had to go for something a bit more adventurous

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bronze · 12/02/2011 11:42

Something Welsh to go with my name but a bit fancier than Jones or Evans so maybe something like Llewellyn or Meredith.

DancingThroughLife · 12/02/2011 11:48

I love my surname as it's so unusual, but I do have to spell it All The Time.

I always like how most names seem to flow really nicely with Alexander so maybe I'd pick that. In fact, that could be my pen name if ever I was a writer Grin

nickelbabe · 12/02/2011 11:51

I wouldn't change my surname or choose any other.

I love my name, all of it, surname included.

fluffygal · 12/02/2011 11:52

My maiden name was awful, had an X in it, always had to spell it out and still they'd spell it wrong! My married name isn't much better, people always spell it with a P or think I've said Simpson. Grrr, I'd love to be a Smith!

ValiumSandwichTime · 12/02/2011 11:52

Funny you say Costello because that popped into my head before I clicked on your thread. I like the sur names like Kinsella, Gillespie and Costello that seem to have a bit more oo la la than the usual ones.

I like Gillespie for some reason. Even though I think it means priestly Confused or something like that.

tummytickler · 12/02/2011 12:04

I have always wanted the surname Cohen. I love it.
My friend has the surname Flowers which I think is really cool too.

Adair · 12/02/2011 12:07

I did change my surname by deed poll 8 years ago. I wanted a one-syllable name...
thought about Street but am teacher and Miss Street not so good... Grin

darksideofthemooncup · 12/02/2011 12:14

I would like to be a de something, like De Lacey or something Italian sounding so I could have a really exotic name for my dd. I married a man from yorkshire though so not much chance of that happening Grin

HeartShapedValium · 12/02/2011 22:40

Are you mrs shuttlecock?! or Mrs Cockworthe?

BarbieLovesKen · 12/02/2011 22:46

I love Banks for some reason...

HeartShapedValium · 12/02/2011 22:48

ooh a brave choice right now Barbie!

Ally Iris Banks

ha ha Grin

BarbieLovesKen · 12/02/2011 22:50

PML... Grin

CammieP · 13/02/2011 00:07

DH's mum's maiden name is Winterton which I like!

kreecherlivesupstairs · 13/02/2011 10:13

Chiles. I'd chose the name Chiles because then I'd be married to the lovely Adrian.
I wanted to marry my friends brother so I could be called Kreecher D'Aguila, luckily he wasn't interested in me.
I did have a long relationship with a man called X De'ath.

naughtynaughtynamechange · 13/02/2011 10:21

McCloud. Which I know is a corruption of McLeod but still a fabbo name.

CheerfulYank · 13/02/2011 10:25

I always liked Grey and Greyson for something for some reason.

My real surname is Brick. We are a solid people. :)

Adair · 13/02/2011 11:42

naughtynaughty, I had a boyfriend when i was 14 who adopted the surname McCloud. He had run away from home (was 17) and changed it (no idea what his real surname was...).

Brick is a great surname!

Spenguin · 13/02/2011 14:14

Fiance's mother's maiden name is Covington - swooooooon!

MrsDeidreIppy · 13/02/2011 14:23

I always thought Abercrombie was a cool name

Raahh · 13/02/2011 14:25

I like my married surname, is very common in Canada, apparently- but have to spell it all the time, despite it only having 6 letters. It is also said EXACTLY AS IT IS SPELT but this still proves difficult to everyonemost people. Ironically, the version we have is a corruption of the original name, meant to make it easier!

It is also a bit of a 'showgirl' type surname, think La Rue, but not that...Grin

I always wanted the surname Fitzgerald, it seems quite glam!

Psammead · 13/02/2011 17:49

Hathaway or Montgomery.

Ilovemyscrumples · 13/02/2011 18:17

I had a nightmare with my maiden name. Double barrelled, but with no hyphen (as is the Scottish way or so I am told), an unusual spelling for one name and the other name could quite commonly be spelt 2 different ways!
I wouldn't change my name now as I love my married name, which believe it or not is LOVE!

MarshaBrady · 13/02/2011 18:20

I would like to be a Waldorf, Astor or Wooster.

HeartShapedValiumSandwich · 13/02/2011 18:51

lol at wooster.

You have to be pulling off white gloves just as you say your name to pull that one off.

Tuppence Wooster, how do you do?

MarshaBrady · 13/02/2011 18:53

Is wooster the butler or the master? (I forget!)