Favorite Surnames

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have always loved the name Cavalari.

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.

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

There was a woman in an ad (Pepsi challenge, maybe?) many years ago whose name was Toppie Smellie.

I knew a young unmarried couple with the girl having the surname Funk. People insisted that they keep her last name when they married.

National Lampoon’s True Facts has tons of supposedly real wedding announcements from such couples as (paraphrased from memory) Cox-Held and Dick-Kuntz.

Shagdar.

A fine Mongolian name.

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.

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!”

Satan, from Slovakia.

I have a soft spot for the Mayflower/Boston Brahmin surnames: Cabot, Lodge, Channing, Eaton, Endicott, Eliot.

Going with the OP, I’ve always thought Vida Blue was one of the coolest names in sports history.

My mechanic’s last name is Dragon.

I’ve always thought the lead designer of the game The Longest Journey had an awesome name, Ragnar Tornquist

I met someone with the last name “Sonnenschein” - “Sunshine”. :slight_smile:

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. :wink:

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!