I’m borrowing this idea from another thread. Anybody got any examples of what at least some might consider to be weird surnames? I’ll start: my wife once knew someone with the last name Glasscock. I once saw that last name of a player in the EPL that was Windass. Another from the Dutch national soccer team that was Suurbier (“sour beer” if I’m translating it correctly). How 'bout a CURRENT German national soccer team member: Bastian Schweinsteiger (which I think translates, roughly, as “pig mounter” {snicker}). Okay…your turn!
Butts.
Clitsome.
Trebilcock.
They actually asked me about Fick’s law in an exam on image processing. You can probably guess what the name means.
I went to school with a kid named Glasscock, it apparently is not all that uncommon. Lipshitz is pretty common, I knew one of them, too. There is a Latin American pitcher named Bastardo in the major leagues. Another one with a brief career named Chuck Fick, with whom Reverend Spooner would have had a field day. Not to mention celebrity knock-off Shiloh Pitt.
Cockburn :eek:
I know a guy who’s last name is Berry. Which isn’t so weird except his first and middle names are Frank Nicholas.
Frank N. Berry! 
I kid you not.
Turnipseed.
Not weirdest, but I’ve always found it amusing that in my circle of friends I have a Greedy, a Swindler, and a Crook. I wish they were all attorneys so they could found their own law firm.
I’m friends on Facebook with a guy whose last name is Reeks.
There’s also the last name Smellie. I’ve never met anyone with this last name, but it exists.
I once knew a guy named Smallbone. It was almost impossible to keep it together when talking to him. Yes, I am still in the fourth grade.
I’ve seen several surnames that seemed to be compound words, made of two other words, seemingly chosen at random.
Gardenhire.
Kittenplan.
Past mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa got his surname by combining his wife’s maiden name with his own maiden name, and not bothering to hyphenate it. One of them was Villar, the other was Raigosa. (I forget which was which. Wikipedia will know.)
When I was quite young, sometimes I’d thumb through the phone book looking for odd names. One that struck me was Ng. There were about three columns of them. (I’ve since known several people by that name, including my Differential Equations professor, who was damn good at it!) I pointed this out to my big brother, who had traveled all over the world (well, all over Europe anyway), and he refused to believe it was a real name. He was sure it must just be a typo. (Like, three columns of them? :dubious: )
ETA: BTW, the Diff Eq prof pronounced it like “Ung”.
Dickshot.
Johnny Dickshot played baseball for the Chicago Cubs in the 1930’s. His nickname was “Ugly”.
Gasser.
And his dad owned a gas station.
I’ve always liked “Matamoros”, which is a rather common surname in Spain. It literally means “Moor killer”, although a modern-day translation would probably be “Muslim killer” or “Arab killer”. Lovely.
And then I find Swedish surnames to be a never-ending source of epicness. We have “bear hammers” (Björnhammar), “lion heads” (Leijonhufvud), “golden hammers” (Gyllenhammar), hunters’ shields (Jägerskiold), “night stars” (Nattstjärna)… And this is not entirely related to OP, but I wouldn’t mind having ‘Thor’s bear’ (Torbjörn) as my first name.
Another Spanish one: one of the Spanish Conquistadores was called ‘Àlvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca’. “Àlvar Núñez Cow’s head”
Isn’t there a Republican called Randy Baumgardner? That’s about as funny as it gets as far as I’m concerned.
There is also an ex-German football international whose surname is Kuntz.
I had a friend in Cub Scouts with the name Cockburn. It’s pronounced “Coburn” but every roll call it was mispronounced. It was a bit giggle-some, for us 9 year olds.
I once met a man named Groundwater. And there is a mathematician named Dickshit. (Indian and India once had a US Ambassador named Dixit and I have wondered whether they were just different transliterations of the same name.)
I’ve known people with that last name, so it is a real last name. I thought it was pronounced “Ning,” but I don’t know for sure.
I type a lot of people’s names into databases at work. One surname that has stood out to me was the name “Planets.” Not an uncommon word, but an odd last name, to me anyway.