Cool last name?

General Name Discussion
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Hello all! I am curious if any of you have any last names that you love? [name_f]Imagine[/name_f] if you could choose a new last name for yourself and your partner and children :blush:

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I adore the last name [name_f]Summer[/name_f].

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I actually have my own private list of last names as I plan on changing my name whenever I find my perfect first name.

Esquivel
[name_u]Grey[/name_u]
Keery
[name_u]Madison[/name_u]
[name_u]Neal[/name_u]
[name_m]Oswald[/name_m]
[name_u]Paxton[/name_u]
[name_u]Reid[/name_u]
Reubens
[name_u]Sinclair[/name_u]
[name_m]Walsh[/name_m]

Looking for more, but these are really cool/cute to me. (:

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I would probably pick [name_u]Adair[/name_u] since Iā€™ve always liked the sound of it. But the surnames I find most intriguing are those that have interesting or fun meanings, like Katzenberg ([name_m]German[/name_m] for ā€œcat mountainā€).

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@chopette agree 100% on [name_u]Adair[/name_u], itā€™s my favorite too. Some others:

[name_u]Alwin[/name_u]
Armitage
[name_m]Eames[/name_m]
[name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m]
[name_m]Latham[/name_m]
St. [name_u]James[/name_u] (St. anything really, Iā€™m not religious but Iā€™m a big sucker for ā€œSt.ā€ last names)

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I have a surname thatā€™s an old fashioned unisex word name, and itā€™s pretty trendy on Nameberry haha. So I really love it tbh and will pretty certainly keep it when I get married. I donā€™t think Iā€™d be very willing to change my surname even if I hated it though.

Some of my favourite surnames are Dearden and Churchyard. I just think theyā€™re really cool and good examples of my favourite categories: old fashioned religious or animal related words, and conjunctions words. Also love Friar, [name_m]Baird[/name_m], [name_u]Abbott[/name_u], Swallow, [name_m]Stirling[/name_m], Foxden, [name_m]Falconer[/name_m] (or the etymologically related [name_m]Faulkner[/name_m], for [name_m]William[/name_m] [name_m]Faulkner[/name_m], coincidentally).

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I really like [name_m]Shepherd[/name_m] and [name_m]Gallagher[/name_m]. They both are pretty normal tbh

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[name_u]Love[/name_u] [name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m] and Wildeā€“used them for an RJ character and a [name_u]Phoenix[/name_u] character respectively. Wonā€™t use them, though, even if I could.

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I really like [name_u]Walker[/name_u], Johansson, and [name_m]French[/name_m]! I just think they sound pretty cool.

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I especially love [name_m]French[/name_m] surnames!
[name_m]Devereaux[/name_m]
Pasquier
[name_m]Everhart[/name_m]
Holloway
Kepler
[name_f]Nova[/name_f]
Romanov
Morgenstern
Cavalier
[name_m]Chevalier[/name_m]
[name_m]Forester[/name_m]
[name_f]Du[/name_f] Maurier
[name_m]Olivier[/name_m]

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Hmm, letā€™s see:

Wilde
[name_m]Wilder[/name_m]
Lawless
Starford
Carmody
Baranay
[name_u]Bellamy[/name_u]
[name_u]Connelly[/name_u]
[name_m]Maynard[/name_m]
[name_u]Madigan[/name_u]
[name_u]Lawrence[/name_u]
[name_u]Elliot[/name_u]
[name_m]Fitzhugh[/name_m]
[name_m]Maxwell[/name_m]

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I think Zajac is a cool Surname. I found it from the [name_m]New[/name_m] [name_u]Jersey[/name_u] Devils player [name_m]Travis[/name_m] Zajac

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Katzenberg, meaning cat mountain is quite cool and appealing!
I also thought the conjunction ones Churchyard and Foxden are quite neat :slight_smile:

I have a wonderful friend whose last name is Smiley :slight_smile: Iā€™ll always feel a bit sad we only feel platonically about each other because I would have been quite eager to take that last name!