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If you could choose your surname...

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ButterflyOfFreedom · 15/11/2019 14:53

...what would it be?

A bit random I know but sometimes I hear a surname and think 'ooh, that's a good one'!

Mine is pretty comical but definitely could be worse... though if I could choose, I'd go for Cathcart or Brocklebank! Smile

What would you pick?

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ChrisPrattsFace · 15/11/2019 14:54

I love my surname, also love my maiden name.

Gives my son a very beautiful (imo) sounding name so I’m happy 😂

MrsTerryPratchett · 15/11/2019 15:11

I'd choose something unusual and nice so that there was only one of me!

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 15/11/2019 15:13

I'd be happy with "of Brunei"
🤣

whatswithtodaytoday · 15/11/2019 15:14

I love my surname, but I used to know someone whose surname was Martini and always rather liked that.

habipprtyh · 15/11/2019 15:25

You can choose your surname if you want.

emwithme · 15/11/2019 16:06

I knew rugby players with both of those surnames in the early 00s and now I'm wondering whether @ButterflyOfFreedom did too.

ButterflyOfFreedom · 15/11/2019 16:26

emwithme no sorry, don't know any rugby players with those surnames!
I think there is a footballer called Cathcart, and obviously it's a character in Catch 22.
I saw Brocklebank on the side of a truck once (!) and just thought it sounded cool! 🙂

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DailyFailAreTwats · 15/11/2019 16:36

I knew a Twelvetrees, Alabaster and a Galliano. Also knew a Miss J Bond. But my favourite was an old gravestone I saw a few years ago for a Johnny Flowerbuttons. I'd bloody love to be Mrs Flowerbuttons.

Winterdaysarehere · 15/11/2019 16:39

I knew a lad with surname Goldfingle!! Very James Bond!

bridgetreilly · 15/11/2019 16:55

I would choose my paternal grandmother's maiden name, but I'm not saying because there are

NorthUtsire · 15/11/2019 17:01

I always liked the idea of being a Mrs Merryweather. I also used to work with someone whose surname was Snowball and wouldn't mind that too.

mumof2masterofnone · 15/11/2019 17:07

I used to know a lady with the surname Sweetingham. I thought it was lovely!

Peony99 · 15/11/2019 17:10

I used to work with a Ms Waterfall, and was quite jealous of that.

TreesRUs · 15/11/2019 17:11

I know a Brocklebank Smile

When I married DH we just picked a new name. So, you can!

NeedAnExpert · 15/11/2019 17:12

You can choose your surname. If you want to be a Brocklebank, be one!

What a weird thread.

ButterflyOfFreedom · 15/11/2019 17:18

I know you can choose your surname but not many people seem to. I don't know anyone who has.

Sorry you think it's a weird thread - weird enough for you to comment!

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ButterflyOfFreedom · 15/11/2019 17:20

mumof2masterofnone I agree Sweetingham is lovely!

And Flowerbuttons, wow! Never heard of that one!

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SimonJT · 15/11/2019 17:21

You can.

I chose my first, middle and surname.

Staffori · 15/11/2019 18:12

I like Jones. No, seriously. As long as I have a very unusual first name, which I don't. If Stafori was my real name, I'd be happy with Stafori Jones. Unique.

NotAClue101 · 15/11/2019 18:13

Loved my maiden name as very unusual...to the point anyone who shares the surname is a relative!

If I could choose, it would be Mrs Hardy, wife of Tom Hardy 😋

OhWellThatsJustGreat · 15/11/2019 18:15

I had an English teacher with the surname Truelove, she then got married and became Rowbottom. I think they were both brilliant surnames!!!

DramaAlpaca · 15/11/2019 18:23

As a child I used to wish I had the surname Marvell or Merivale. They were the names of characters in a book I loved as a child & sounded so much more romantic to me than my own, quite ugly, surname.

Actually, DH has a great surname. I liked it so much better than my own that I decided to change to his when we got married. I almost certainly wouldn't have done if he'd had a horrible name.

BatleyTownswomensGuild · 15/11/2019 18:45

Oooh I like this thread!

I've always loved 'birdy' surnames names: Partridge, Starling, Peacock, Swan, Sparrow etc.

pinkmagic1 · 15/11/2019 18:48

I think I would go with Rainbow.

ButterflyOfFreedom · 15/11/2019 19:08

Thanks BatleyTownswomensGuild! Smile

Some beauties here!

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