# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/41 "2014-11-19T18:36:58Z")
The Skaggs and Junk families eventually (it took a couple other “lines”) marrying into each other on my Father’s side. He’s totally clean, he swears. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/42 "2014-11-19T19:12:12Z")
There is an Ohiio politician whose last name is Branstool. He should have been a gastroenteroligist. I like last names that are nouns. I’ve known a Mr. and Mrs. Grape and a Mr. and Mrs. Pancake. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/43 "2014-11-19T21:12:36Z")
Years ago, I was reading a newspaper article which mentioned a bus driver by the name of Drago Nevistic. If I were ever to write a book with a super villain in it, that would be his name. Only I’d spell the first name Draco. I also know of a fellow whose last name is Betz-All. I think that is pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/44 "2014-11-19T21:20:48Z")
I went to school with a Tenkiller, a Mankiller, and a Threekiller. Also the Loving sisters. (They hung out with the 'killers.) And a person whose last name was Derryberry. I love all those names. ---
**Author:** ![SUZ\_MAC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@SUZ\_MAC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SUZ_MAC)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/45 "2014-11-19T22:42:24Z")
I have always loved the name Cavalari. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/46 "2014-11-19T23:07:04Z")
Monster and Freake are fairly common surnames in Newfoundland, and I once saw a notice in a newspaper announcing a Monster-Freake marriage. Hopefully, they did not hyphenate their name, and let at least one of them go. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/47 "2014-11-20T00:09:00Z")
> [@GoodOmens](#): > > I believe you’re referring to the wonderfully named Max Fightmaster. You’re probably right, I was probably getting confused with another wonderfully named doctor I came across in a work database once named Dr. Slaughterman ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/48 "2014-11-20T01:10:07Z")
There was a woman in an ad (Pepsi challenge, maybe?) many years ago whose name was Toppie Smellie. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/49 "2014-11-20T06:35:10Z")
I knew a young unmarried couple with the girl having the surname Funk. People insisted that they keep her last name when they married. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/50 "2014-11-20T06:54:04Z")
National Lampoon’s [True Facts](http://www.amazon.com/National-Lampoon-Presents-True-Facts/dp/0809235595/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416466235&sr=1-6&keywords=national+lampoon) has tons of supposedly real wedding announcements from such couples as (paraphrased from memory) Cox-Held and Dick-Kuntz. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/51 "2014-11-20T17:42:03Z")
Shagdar. A fine Mongolian name. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/52 "2014-11-20T19:48:28Z")
I know someone who was married several times. She produced her kids under the surname Bacon. When her daughter grew up and got married, she became a Hamm. No, she did not hyphenate. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/53 "2014-11-20T20:11:47Z")
It would be a unique advantage if someone surnamed Washington or Lincoln ran for President. The public would be all over the coolness factor; “Let’s have another President Washington!” ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/54 "2014-11-21T04:28:24Z")
[Satan,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_%C5%A0atan) from Slovakia. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/55 "2014-11-21T08:36:33Z")
I have a soft spot for the _Mayflower_/Boston Brahmin surnames: Cabot, Lodge, Channing, Eaton, Endicott, Eliot. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/56 "2014-11-21T09:51:41Z")
Going with the OP, I’ve always thought [Vida Blue](http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bluevi01.shtml?redir) was one of the coolest names in sports history. ---
**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 21, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/57 "2014-11-21T15:01:57Z")
My mechanic’s last name is Dragon. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/58 "2014-11-21T17:20:56Z")
I’ve always thought the lead designer of the game The Longest Journey had an awesome name, Ragnar Tornquist ---
**Author:** ![The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_butterfly_s_ghost/32/3462_2.png) [@The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Butterfly_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/59 "2014-11-22T12:33:10Z")
I met someone with the last name “Sonnenschein” - “Sunshine”. 🙂 And I had a friend with the rather unfortunate but somehow awesome last name “Fuck” (it’s pronounced different in German of course but that doesn’t help at all!). He took his wife’s name when he got married and now goes by “König” - “King”. No, he didn’t hyphenate. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812/60 "2014-11-22T18:38:27Z")
I once met a park ranger whose last name was Killingsworth. And, his first name? ‘Lucky’ (cite: it was on his official photo-ID badge) Lucky Killingsworth, now that’s a name! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-surnames/704812.md?page=4)