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If you could choose your surname...

130 replies

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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BatleyTownswomensGuild · 16/11/2019 11:50

I have a Scandinavian ancestor called Thor Wandmaker.

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

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

PhilODox · 16/11/2019 12:26

Freda thank you for your fascinating postsThanks

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 Grin
Or perhaps a place that has deep personal meaning for me (but not posting those!)

AliceAforethought · 16/11/2019 12:57

My maiden name is Wolf

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

CampfireZen · 16/11/2019 13:44

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...

IckleBear · 16/11/2019 16:00

Loveday!!

ilyjccs · 16/11/2019 19:28

Van Persie
Howard
Tudor
Menhenick
Courtenay
And Clutterbuck Grin

Kitkatfordinner · 17/11/2019 00:21

D'eath

londonmarathonhalfwaypoint · 17/11/2019 00:27

Costello or Kinsella

emilybrontescorsett · 17/11/2019 07:54

D 'Vere I think sounds awesome.

BatleyTownswomensGuild · 17/11/2019 08:54

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

BikeRunSki · 17/11/2019 08:57

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

BikeRunSki · 17/11/2019 08:58

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

StoatofDisarray · 17/11/2019 08:59

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

StoatofDisarray · 17/11/2019 09:00

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

ContessaLovesTheSunshine · 17/11/2019 09:04

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 Grin

WhoKnewBeefStew · 17/11/2019 09:07

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

missmouse101 · 17/11/2019 09:12

I love Faulkner.

oohnicevase · 17/11/2019 09:13

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

BikeRunSki · 17/11/2019 10:25

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.

CampfireZen · 17/11/2019 15:25

@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.

BernardsarenotalwaysSaints · 17/11/2019 15:29

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

BikeRunSki · 17/11/2019 16:27

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.

BikeRunSki · 17/11/2019 16:28

*Golightly

cantthinkofauniquename · 17/11/2019 16:36

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.

ILoveAnOwl · 17/11/2019 17:41

Cavendish. Although have also toyed with Pendragon.