There was a cheerleader at my college whose last name was Bumpass. No, thank you.
I knew a guy named Jon Smith - poor guy had a heck of a time checking into hotels…
Years ago, I worked with a woman named Hooker. She was the nicest, sweetest person you’d want to know and I never heard anyone give her grief about her name, but I’m sure it happened.
I can’t think of any off the top of my head, but I wouldn’t want to share a last name with an obnoxious celeb. I imagine Hiltons cringe whenever Paris is in the news.
Did her family have a lot of dogs?
I went to high school with a Fangboner.
Never was a woman so happy to get married and become a Smith.
Deck the harrs with boughs of horry, fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra.
Was that pronounced Bump-ass or Bum-pass? I’m not sure which is worse.
There’s a Scottish footballer called David Goodwillie.
A friend recently married. She took her husband’s last name, thus becoming a Stoner. We all joked around about how she was a stoner, but is now a Stoner.
There are quite a few Pratts around and I always wondered why they stuck to their name, and why the women who married into the family didn’t keep their own names. (JIC “prat” isn’t a common term in the US, in the UK it means ‘useless idiot’ and is very widely used).
And Sir Paul Condon, the old police chief. Why? I know it’s a place in France, but… And why did my Dr Himmler not change his name?
I guess these people, by the time they were old enough to change their names, had lived with the teasing for so long that they were used to it and felt attached to their poor, abused name.
I’ll add Poteet. There are lots of them around here. It sounds backwoods redneck and vaguely obscene at the same time.
The dutch surname Ennema.
No matter how big my RV and mobile home business, I’d never want the last name Raper.
Huge car dealer in Columbus - Dick Masheter
True, that was a most unfortunate name.
On the other hand, Ima Hogg lived a very long, happy, prosperous life. She was a much loved and admired philanthropist, and there are libraries, hospitals, museums, concert halls and schools all over Texas named after her.
So, the name doesn’t seem to have done her ANY harm.
There was a professor at my college whose last name was Boner.
I hope her first name wasn’t Destiny. I’m ashamed to admit my husband and I spent the better portion of an Olympic volleyball game making up jokes about the player named Destiny Hooker.
We have a local trucking company Harry Bush Trucking Services. I think I would have changed my name before plastering it on the side of several trucks.
I had a friend in college whose last name was “Dick”, but when she got married and changed it, she didn’t upgrade at all, her husband’s last name is “Cox”.
I went to school with a girl last name of Hickey. She lived up to it, too.
She coulda gone for the hyphenated name, forever making people think she had tourette syndrome.
I’ve heard Raper RV advertizing on the radio. That must be in the Top 10 for most unfortunate surnames, if not the Top 5 or Top 3.
I also had a Prof. Fuchs in college. Sometimes, Anglicizing your family name is a good idea.