If you could choose your surname...

[ButterflyOfFreedom]

...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!

What would you pick?

I have a Scandinavian ancestor called Thor Wandmaker.

When drunk I have been known to introduce myself as "descendant of Thor"

Also a good ancestor if you are a Harry Potter fan. Works on many levels...

Freda thank you for your fascinating posts

I like lots of names mentioned on this thread.
For me Raven or Wolf.
So I can pretend I'm far more interesting thank I really am
Or perhaps a place that has deep personal meaning for me (but not posting those!)

My maiden name is Wolf

That is so cool. I'd love to be a Wolf. But you changed it??!!

I have a Scandinavian ancestor called Thor Wandmaker.

Brilliant name!

Was just reading about the Welsh-derived old surname 'Miracle'.

Imagine the double-barrelling potential, had there been an international romance:
Thor and Bethan Miracle-Wandmaker...

Loveday!!

Van Persie
Howard
Tudor
Menhenick
Courtenay
And Clutterbuck

D'eath

Costello or Kinsella

D 'Vere I think sounds awesome.

@CampfireZen - you're not based in Essex are you? You sound exactly like one of my (lovely) worked colleagues!

My maiden name is a silly Gaelic spelling (I still use this at work); my married name is very common, but a bit dull. I have often thought what I would chose my surname to be and kept come back to..,

MacKenzie

Bethan Miracle-Wandmaker... doesn’t age have a shop in Diagon Alley?

I did choose my surname when I was about 25 :-) has it changed by deed poll. It's very easy to do.

One of my friends knows someone called Balthazar Fabricious. That's the best RL name I've ever heard.

I love the name I've got (my dad's surname) - it always makes people look at me quizzically as it does not seem to fit my accent and appearance! Obv not going to state it but it's quite rare and I am proud to be one of the few with it.

I knew a Miss Chick once - she said she'd got used to it and quite liked it now, but hadn't growing up. I also knew a Dr Onion - he wasn't so pleased with his!!

If I did have to choose another, I'd go for a grand-sounding name like Bracegirdle or Farthingale or something - I swear such names make you develop a 'F* you, I am grand' persona very early on! Both my children have grand-sounding names (first and last) and I await nervously to see how they turn out

Something short (I have a long surname and filling in forms etc is a pain)

I love Faulkner.

I would choose the one I have .. I love it , I work in retail and often cringe at the awful surnames !

One of my friends knows someone called Balthazar Fabricious. That's the best RL name I've ever heard.

That’s excellent. I beats my dad’s former colleague, Yakimoto Hamilton.

@BatleyTownswomensGuild,
No, am approx 100 miles west of Essex!

@StoatofDisarray,
Balthazar Fabricious is spectacularly good.

Forgot about Kingsolver, as in Barbara.
Kingsolver is an enviably cool-sounding surname, I think.

The Celebrant for my Dad’s funeral had the surname Mason Dipple which I thought was fabulous.

There is a man called Comfort Golightky who works for either Yorkshire Water or Yorkshire Electricity in their records office. I’ve always thought that that was a rather wonderful name.

*Golightly

I think if I was choosing a surname, I'd choose something that had positive meanings like Lovely or Smiley.

I did read an atrticle a while ago that one of the best things you can do for your child in this modern and online world, is to give them as common a name as you can, so as to make them as difficult as possible to find online. So with that in mind, I'd genuinely choose something like Smith.

Cavendish. Although have also toyed with Pendragon.