# Disneytize your name **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496 "2022-08-29T01:00:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/1 "2022-08-29T01:00:31Z")
Stealing this idea from @Johanna without any shame what-so-ever! With a twist though. Can you Disneytize your name? What I mean is can you translate your last name into the equivalent from Classic Disney(not modern disney with its marvel studios and lucasfilms and what have you, just classic Walt Disney) For example, my last name after disneyfication (those are so real words!) would be some version of Hundred-Acre-Woods, that being the closest thing to the original meaning of my last name. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/2 "2022-08-29T01:05:15Z")
ETA. Had this all queued up for a link and forgot to put it in. [Link to thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-renaissance-humanist-name/970471) I’m stealing the idea from ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/3 "2022-08-29T13:05:28Z")
My last name translates as “wolf”, but most Disney wolves are either simply called “wolf” (as in _Peter and the Wolf_) , or else were taken from other sources (like “Akela”, from Kipling’s _Jungle Book_). Maybe my best choice would _Big Bad_. (I recoil from choosing _Li’l Bad_.) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/4 "2022-08-29T13:08:44Z")
I suppose I could choose _Nottingham_, since the Sheriff of Nottingham in Disney’s **Robin Hood** was a wolf. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/5 "2022-08-29T13:17:47Z")
… given that my last name is an Americanization of the Ukrainian pronunciation of a Croatian family name (my cousins believe it means “Johnson”), i think not. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/6 "2022-08-29T13:32:26Z")
My last name translates to _“dancing iron”_ (no doubt blacksmith related). I think a dancing iron would fit right in with any number of Disney musicals, like Beauty and the Beast. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/7 "2022-08-29T13:53:42Z")
My maiden name is Polish and no one in the family could tell me what it meant - even when my grandparents were alive. Translators don’t help. It’s just a name, I guess… My married name is a cardinal direction - not sure there’s a lot Disney could do with that, either. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/8 "2022-08-29T15:25:50Z")
I don’t think I’m familiar enough with Disney to pick a translation for my last name, but as a bear warrior I guess I should be Little John? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/9 "2022-08-29T15:29:34Z")
The closest thing in all of Disney to my literal last name is probably found at the end of _Fantasia_ during the “Ave Maria.” I guess that’d make me Dawn on Bald Mountain. Call me Dawn. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/10 "2022-08-29T15:35:09Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > My maiden name is Polish and no one in the family could tell me what it meant - even when my grandparents were alive. Translators don’t help. It’s just a name, I guess… > > My married name is a cardinal direction - not sure there’s a lot Disney could do with that, either. Easy, North or South Pole (unless it’s East or West) Not much I can think of to Disneytize my last name, which means “God with us”. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/11 "2022-08-29T15:37:22Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > Easy, North or South Pole (unless it’s East or West) It’s neither north nor south… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/12 "2022-08-29T16:21:58Z")
Ah, are you related to the Arbutus Southbysouthwests? ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/13 "2022-08-30T00:08:44Z")
Dancing Iron huh? Actually sounds kinda cool. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/14 "2022-08-30T00:14:21Z")
Yeah, I’d kick Beauty and the Beast’s candlestick, clock and chair’s butt any day of the week! 😄 ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/15 "2022-08-30T00:47:25Z")
Mine means " valley",so I could change my name to the melodious “WOOK OF THE VALLEY”. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneytize-your-name/970496/16 "2022-09-02T18:27:21Z")
Frank Furry, I’ve dated a lot of Disney characters. 😉 I would say Courageous Cat, but he’s not a Disney character.