At first I thought this was MPSIMS material, but since it’s an opinion type thing I’ll put it in here.
What last names have you come across or know of that you wish you had? Of course, it’s not really a consequential thing, but once in a while one comes up that really rocks. Most recently, I met a Blue. There’s no name that’s not improved by having Blue following it. John Blue, Rose Blue, Matthew Blue, Jack Blue, Melody Blue . . . Other color names like White also work beautifully.
I once met a woman whose last name was Valentine. Some people in this world are truly blessed.
A couple years ago there was a military guy giving interviews for something or other.
I can’t remember his rank, or even the service he was in, but his last name was “Slaughtermaster”
I would have liked to use one of my mother’s family names. Morse, Bell, Rand. Sadly, no relation to the big companies. Mom married an Irish name modern Americans laugh at. Her MIL’s maiden German name would have Jackmanii chuckling, or snerking.
I really like French surnames. These are my favs from just B & C :eek:
Beauchene
Beaumont
Bellrose
Blaise
Bonhomme
Charbonneau
Chevalier
Courtemanche
My “girls night out name” was Chantel Dubois
I rather favor Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley), or Taliaferro (pronounced Tolliver).
A young fellow called Cholmondeley Colquhoun,
Once kept as a pet a babolquhoun,
His mother said, “Cholmondeley,
Do you think it quite colmondeley,
To feed your babolquhoun with a spolquhoun?”
By far the most common surname in the Yucatec Maya language is “Pech,” which means “flea.” So, the bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers has about a hundred thousand indigenous Mexican “namesakes.”
