# Favorite Surnames **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 16, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812 "2014-11-16T23:01:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/1 "2014-11-16T23:01:30Z")
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. 😛 So, if you could pick, what would you choose? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/2 "2014-11-16T23:48:37Z")
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” That is beyond awesome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/3 "2014-11-17T00:09:56Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > 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 . . . One of my ancestors was John Blackford Blue of Indiana, descended from the Blue family of New Jersey. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/4 "2014-11-17T00:14:25Z")
My last name is a colour, though not Blue, unfortunately, which is my favourite colour. I like the French last name “Sanschagrin”- “without grief.” I’ve also come across the French name “Painchaud” - warm bread. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/5 "2014-11-17T00:18:13Z")
I’ve come across these cool names in the last month and a half, in sports. [Bryan Anger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Anger), NFL [Joe Panik](http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=605412#gameType=%27R%27), MLB [Whitney Mercilus](http://www.houstontexans.com/team/roster/Whitney-Mercilus/c4731cec-039b-4803-bcf5-71fc689b2665), NFL I would LOVE to be “Jessica Mercilus!!!” ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/6 "2014-11-17T00:48:21Z")
Hazen Argue was a member of the Saskatchewan provincial legislature, laer elected to the Canadian Parliament… ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/7 "2014-11-17T01:54:06Z")
I had a roommate in college whose last name was **Stonebreaker**. Great surname! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/8 "2014-11-17T02:02:56Z")
One of the other pilots at my employer has the last name “Pilot”. Really. In the military I knew officers with the last names Major and Minor. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/9 "2014-11-17T02:07:58Z")
There’s a local wildlife biologist named David Bird, and I used to go to an optometrist named Dr. Spector. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Holdsworth\_Effect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@The\_Holdsworth\_Effect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Holdsworth_Effect)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/10 "2014-11-17T02:08:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/11 "2014-11-17T02:31:29Z")
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 😃 ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/12 "2014-11-17T03:05:36Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > 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” > > That is beyond awesome. 🙂 Same or similar: SSgt [Max Fightmaster](http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_the-9-manliest-names-in-world.html) (I think he since got promoted). Or [Punch Rockgroin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY). I like “ffolkes.” Yes, always lowercase. And other weird British names like Featheringstonehaugh or St. John. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/13 "2014-11-17T03:51:11Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > I like “ffolkes.” Yes, always lowercase. And other weird British names like Featheringstonehaugh or St. John. 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?”_ ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/14 "2014-11-17T08:35:20Z")
> [@CT\_Damsel](#): > > 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 had a “girls night out” name, too. Maybe you should start a thread. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/15 "2014-11-17T09:16:21Z")
There’s an Israeli television personality whose name is pronounced “Guy Penis”. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/16 "2014-11-17T12:16:18Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_York](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_York](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_York)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/17 "2014-11-17T13:03:56Z")
I knew a girl called Lucy Rainbow. I said it was an unusual surname, but she said there were lots of Rainbows in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/18 "2014-11-17T13:45:17Z")
> [@Duke\_of\_York](#): > > I knew a girl called Lucy Rainbow. I said it was an unusual surname, but she said there were lots of Rainbows in the UK. I thought all the rainbows were in Ireland:D ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/19 "2014-11-17T13:48:09Z")
Gaylord 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/20 "2014-11-17T13:49:52Z")
You gotta admit **Wolf Biltzer** is a pretty cool name. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812.md?page=2)