Do you like your last name

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  • dodihere
    dodihere Posts: 490
    My maiden name is Norris. I loved it. My son kept my maiden name and his nickname is Chuck. He was the high school kicker/punter.
  • Tracepa98
    Tracepa98 Posts: 219
    I'm pretty much screwed all around.

    I hate my current last name. Its never pronounced correctly. Not to mention its a regional name so people know I'm not from around here. Its an awful reminder of what my stepdad did and was towards me for so many years.

    SO....I also don't want my birth last name either as I don't want to be affiliated with my real dad or what he did either.

    I'm not married and not dating anyone so taking someone else's is not in the near future.

    And lastly...I don't want my mom's maiden name because Ellis Island butchered it to hell and is ridiculously mispronounced from what it originated from in Slovakia.
  • chocolateandpb
    chocolateandpb Posts: 438 Member
    No. It's French but no one pronounces it correctly in the French way...not even my extended family. :grumble:

    I would happily get rid of it for a common last name like Smith or Anderson.
  • SmartAlec03211988
    SmartAlec03211988 Posts: 1,896 Member
    I have the same last name of a quasi famous guy who has a well known meme on the Internet... No I don't lol.
  • agataarchangel
    agataarchangel Posts: 292 Member
    Mine's Polish and 13-letters long. I married last year (to a very common 'Martin') but kept my name, despite it being mispronounced, kicked, pushed, and butchered throughout the years.

    It brings me strength and a history to tell to my kids and about my heritage. I love it :-). There's under 20 of us left in the world,even back home in the Motherland, so I'd love to keep it going.
  • BeccaB1981
    BeccaB1981 Posts: 456 Member
    My last name is Bergbom pronounced berg bomb. Its really simple if you take two seconds to look at it but NO ONE ever gets it right! I hear bergham, bergum, bergebum. Lol. It's amazing how many ways people can screw up 2 simple syllables. I hated in school kids would call me bird bomb. Now that I am grown it doesn't bother me, I just laugh when people say it wrong.
  • Erisad
    Erisad Posts: 1,580
    No. My last name is Belt and it's made for waaay too many stupid jokes. Even my father changed his name. Hopefully I'll get married and get a better last name.
  • amelia_atlantic
    amelia_atlantic Posts: 926 Member
    I HATED mine for many reasons (some shallow, others not so) so I changed it to my mother's maiden name for $70.

    Why live in misery or wait to get married? I took matters into my own hands!

    How did you do that? I have wanted to change my first AND last name for YEARS.

    You file a "petition to change name" form with your town's probate court. You get a court date, appear in front of a judge to swear you're not changing it to avoid the Feds and then you're done!
  • HollyAus
    HollyAus Posts: 241 Member
    I loved my maiden name Collins, now my married name gets butchered lol. It's norweigen (not that he is "really" from there) the first half is Aus pronounced OZ

    It seemed like every college class the first day it was said *kitten*. Most of the time I was one of the first so when they would say Holly......... I would just say my name, then they would ask me to repeat it lol.

    When I did my student teaching all the kids called me Mrs. Aus (as in Mrs. Oz) I really liked that.
  • sleibo87
    sleibo87 Posts: 403 Member
    well now yes. my married name is Stephanie Kittleson, so most people call me skittles. I think the nick name fits! Definitely better then my maiden name that sounded like a bad word lol.
  • coliema
    coliema Posts: 7,646 Member
    I love my last name :)

    I'm getting married next August though, so I'll have a new last name, I'll like it, just not as much as my last name now :)
    Everyone pronounces my last name wrong, which drives me nuts sometimes.
  • yogini_runner
    yogini_runner Posts: 21
    Heck ya! it's Italian.
  • Victoria0046
    Victoria0046 Posts: 41 Member
    @ Skinnymissmeliss: Anderson is a Swedish name that no American pronounce correctly. :)
  • primadonnah
    primadonnah Posts: 21
    Mine is very common as well, but I guess it's nice.
  • jtreadwell
    jtreadwell Posts: 90 Member
    Yes because it is not a common last name.
  • andshley
    andshley Posts: 12
    Ha! I was thinking about changing my last name back to my maiden name just two weeks ago! It was very easy to tell when a telemarketer called :)

    I have decided to keep my married name . . . for now.
  • travisseger
    travisseger Posts: 271 Member
    I don't mind it. It is not that common. I've neverpersonally run into anyone else who shares the last name - and spells it the same - that isn't related to me. It does baffle me that people spell it incorrectly 90% of the time and mispronounce it 60% of the time. I mean, come on, it's only five common letters strung together. I do get a little tired of getting asked if I'm related to Bob every single time I'm introduced to someone.
  • love4ransom
    love4ransom Posts: 67 Member
    Mine is Ransom, like a ransom note. Usually everyone tells me that I have a cool last name. I've only had 1 person misspell my last name and they spelled it R A M S O M. When I let the person know they spelled my last name wrong, they laughed and made a joke afterwards saying, " haha, sorry, I guess I thought you were going to RAM SOM tonight." Weird!
  • PBsMommy
    PBsMommy Posts: 1,166 Member
    Love my married last name! :)

    My maiden name got on my nerves. No one knew how to spell it and it was only five freaking letters long.
  • letobot
    letobot Posts: 205
    Heck ya! it's Italian.



    I second this ^.....but sadly it'll change once i get married....luckily my fiance has a killer last name
  • JeanetDK
    JeanetDK Posts: 30
    I love it. It's all I've got left from my father and every time I write it I think of him.
  • MissAnjy
    MissAnjy Posts: 2,480 Member
    I just switched back to my maiden name, from my ex-husbands name.

    I'm much happier now : )
  • SageGoddess320
    SageGoddess320 Posts: 2,589 Member
    I used to.....before I got married. Now it's Johnson and people think it's funny to call me "Big Johnson". Not cool.
  • Captainobvvious
    Captainobvvious Posts: 272 Member
    Nope, its French and nobody pronounces it right the first time.
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    i have never met anyone outside of my family that has the same last name with the same spelling. there are a few out there that spell it with one "L" instead of two or another variation. But all-in-all, it's great last name.
  • GetDemGainz
    GetDemGainz Posts: 60
    NO.....way too common!
  • Surfrider
    Surfrider Posts: 364 Member
    I hate mine. Adopted into it and its very uncommon, plus bad childhood etc.. compounded by the fact that adoptive parent hasnt been in my life for the last 15+ years. I have always wanted to take my grandfather's last name (Ross). Its simple and I like it. Problem is, I am quite accomplished in my field and have made a name for myself over the last 10 years. I am known by associates across the globe by my current last name. Sucks! =(
  • SomberAngel
    SomberAngel Posts: 14
    Nope, its French and nobody pronounces it right the first time.

    my maiden name is also French, 10 letters long and no one would pronounce it right on the first, second or third time.

    so happy to have changed my name now
  • AuddAlise
    AuddAlise Posts: 723 Member
    I have loved both of my last names. As a child I wished it was closer to "A" in the alphabet though. My married name is awesome; though no one can pronounce it.
  • keelz2010
    keelz2010 Posts: 182
    I love my last name, after a Google search it appears my brother and I are the only people with the surname in the world.. When my Mum remarried my parents couldn't decide if I should have my biological Dads name or my stepdads name, to save argument they double barrelled it.

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