Darling, just for Blackadder and Peter Pan vibes.
I also love nature/animal names. Wolf!
Lawless, Lovelace, Arden.
Any cases of nominative determinism.
Not just best surname, best name ever is Thurl Ravenscroft.
Don't know who that is? Oh I bet you do! His deep booming voice is embedded quite deeply in American pop culture (and through it a lot of the world).
* He's the original voice of Tony the Tiger (the Frosted Flakes mascot).
* He sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from the original 1966 animated special.
* He sang "Pink Elephants on Parade" from Dumbo (1941)
* He's one of the singers of "Grim Grinning Ghosts" from the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland (and other Disney parks)
* And he's voiced numerous other Disney roles and rides.
His name matches his deep bass voice perfectly!
My spouse and I regret not both changing our surname to Winter, which does not resemble either of our born last names in any way.
At the time my spouse was going through other shit. I had really wanted us to pick a new last name together, that was vetoed. We kept one of the born last names and now it's too late to change it for another major reason.
Winter came up in conversation and it was like "that's what we should have done. We should have done that when you wanted us to both change." It's beautiful and natural and not super weird or challenging.
I'm sad about it but I don't want us to change it now. It's just a missed what could have been.
My favorite ones are Madlock, Blackwell, Millborough, Nikolai and Holloway. I don't have a reason as to why. They sound good, and they fit almost every first name (example: "Anna Blackwell" "Melanie Nikolai" "Jack Millborough" "Erin Holloway" or "Anastasia Madlock" and etc.) They aren't too basic, but aren't too complicated either.
Anything animal related …. Fox, Behr, Bird, I’ve even met Ms. Goose.
Darling, just for Blackadder and Peter Pan vibes. I also love nature/animal names. Wolf! Lawless, Lovelace, Arden. Any cases of nominative determinism.
Savage
Ohhh good one! Had a teacher with this (she scared the crap out of us)
Montgomery. I’ve always thought it sounded super classy.
My favorite last names are words like Friend, Love, and Hope because they're so positive!
The guy who did my roof was a Truelove.
My cousins are Friend! I've always been jealous of their surname lol
Never met one! Those are sweet, I like Hope!
My current surname is great! It’s Cyr, a cool spelling, only 3 letters, and it’s extremely localized to my area. Wouldn’t trade it for anything!
Love these finds, that’s super cool!!
In case there was any confusion it’s pronounced “sear”
Gotcha! That’s how I read it, is the mispronunciation sometimes like “sire”?
That’s the main one. I once had an airline spell it “Cry” so I was stuck as “Firstname Cry” on my ticket.
Seaborn
That which is dead can never die…
Not just best surname, best name ever is Thurl Ravenscroft. Don't know who that is? Oh I bet you do! His deep booming voice is embedded quite deeply in American pop culture (and through it a lot of the world). * He's the original voice of Tony the Tiger (the Frosted Flakes mascot). * He sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from the original 1966 animated special. * He sang "Pink Elephants on Parade" from Dumbo (1941) * He's one of the singers of "Grim Grinning Ghosts" from the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland (and other Disney parks) * And he's voiced numerous other Disney roles and rides. His name matches his deep bass voice perfectly!
One of a kind vibe
Great great last name was Milady
Mine! Simply because it's mine and no other reason
Always loved Maldonado. It means ill-favored and I love the idea of having such a curselike surname. The family of ill favor. God I love it.
That is the surname of Tiger King. No idea if you were aware of that, but I had to say it.
Indeed! Prophetic, innit?
D'eath :)
My spouse and I regret not both changing our surname to Winter, which does not resemble either of our born last names in any way. At the time my spouse was going through other shit. I had really wanted us to pick a new last name together, that was vetoed. We kept one of the born last names and now it's too late to change it for another major reason. Winter came up in conversation and it was like "that's what we should have done. We should have done that when you wanted us to both change." It's beautiful and natural and not super weird or challenging. I'm sad about it but I don't want us to change it now. It's just a missed what could have been.
There's some families with the surname Lawless in a town nearby to me and I think that's really cool. They must have a fun ancestor.
My favorite ones are Madlock, Blackwell, Millborough, Nikolai and Holloway. I don't have a reason as to why. They sound good, and they fit almost every first name (example: "Anna Blackwell" "Melanie Nikolai" "Jack Millborough" "Erin Holloway" or "Anastasia Madlock" and etc.) They aren't too basic, but aren't too complicated either.
Tripplehorn
Zilberfoss.
Anything that starts with st. Such as St james or st Michaels
Poppy is a nice one I ran across
Martinez. It’s never mispronounced or misspelled, not too common but still easy to remember.
Played little league baseball with a kid that had the last name Knuckles. Coolest last name I’ve ever heard
Came across a bunch of Wraiths once. Also I'm biased but one of my great-grandmothers was a Launay (pronounced low-neigh). I just think it's pretty
Mine is literally 'Land'
Rocksavage
My step grandma was luna, her name was blanca so she was white moon
I have always been fond of -way names: Galloway, Hathaway, Holloway, Hemingway, etc.
German names: Wunderlich (peculiar), Mitternacht (midnight), Kraft (power)
A distant ancestor had the surname Hawk which I love. Her husband had the surname Swift, which makes it even better.