Weird surnames

We had a teacher named Mr Love. He was nice.

Reminds me of this exchange from Zulu

Here’s one I knew of only vicariously, via a third-party story.

There was this kid who went through elementary and high school by the name of “Colby”. Actually, his name was Colbjornsen, but everybody called him Colby.

Fresh out of high school, he joined the Army. When the sergeant called roll (and y’all know how erudite drill sergeants are at pronouncing peoples’ names), he called him out as “Col-ba-jurg-a-son”.

So that was what everybody called him in the Army. Colbajurgason.

My maternal grandfather was named Sickmiller.

About 30 years ago, I knew a family of Klopfensteins.

I had a teacher called Miss Fullalove. Not a good name for an all-boys high school.

Not all that weird really, But in a medical database I came across a Pulmonologist named Dr. Edema.

I work with doctors, who have come to work here from all over the world. There are some different names out there for sure.

One doctor I work with has the same first and last name. He goes by his nickname Tony. But everytime I type his name, I wonder what the name is all about.

I have a really, really common first and last name. Almost as common as John Smith. I like having such a common name, I do not know why. This is my married name, my maiden name gave away the fact I was Irish.

I love Italian surnames, they always sound so cool to me. I am a bit strange. :o

There’s also US General Normal Schwarzkopf, whose last name means “blackhead” in German.

Yeah, but. . . .

“Carsick” is a real last name.

When he grew up he moved to Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

The large, blonde, busty, nice as all-get-go teacher in my former HS on whom every student of every gender and sexual orientation has had a crush for oh, the last 25 years? Her lastname means Perfectbust.

Oh, I have. A young woman called Jill Smellie came to work in the office where I worked in my 20s. She was very young and very pretty. I think she may have come to work there straight out of high school, or nearly so. She had only been working there a couple of weeks when she announced her engagement.

I am guessing most Smellie women try to get married as soon as they possibly can. :smiley:

The medical practice my mother used to use was staffed by Dr Hayter, Dr Rough, and Dr Scar.

When I was a kid working in a supermarket I bagged groceries weekly for a customer named Sumner Pecker.

and there was a Chinese tailor named A Ho.

Goldfinger (not my proctologist, but it fits)

Awww. Now you’ve gone and ruined all my fun! :frowning:

Heaven help anyone named Dickindottir. :slight_smile:

A common last name in the hills of Western Pennsylvania is “Queer.” You could look it up. Jimmy Queer had a terrible crush on me in 8th grade. But he was short, besides.

I had a cab driver once whose nametag read Clyde Fluker. Yeah, he had a hard time in boot camp, he told me.

British actress Diana Dors original last name was Fluck. I don’t know how it was pronounced, though.

I know a man whose last name is Glasscock. I’d never heard of that surname before I met him, and I thought he made it up for Facebook until I saw his driver’s license one day.

I knew a doctor whose last name was Cappuccino.

In my family tree there are Hoares (my great-grandfather was a son of a Hoare) and Fureys.

My own last name is unusual and lends itself to two obvious jokes (not dirty jokes, thank goodness!), but I will decline to reveal it here. :smiley:

A few years ago I worked with a young guy named Michael Hunt. His parents should have known better! :smack:

Yup. Stormin’ Normal, we call him.