A coworker of mine did this. He and his new wife took parts of their last names and blended them together to create a unique new last name for both of them.
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LesserAbe@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
When people get married they should come up with a completely new last name for them both.
cobysev@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
That’s very cool, i like that
TheBat@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I hope it wasn’t a tragedeigh
syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
A lot of last names here are frozen patronyms (e.g. at some point some dude named Hans had kids; now there are lots of people calling themselves his son, Hansen) or place names. I kinda like the place name bit: Just give kids last names to a place they have a connection to. Where they were born or conceived or something.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
🎤 My name is chika-chika Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
TheBat@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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Zwiebel@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Also jobs. Lots of millers, smiths and hunters etc
Mickey7@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ironically no one had the last name of “prostitute” or “harlot”
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
cough en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lee_Hooker cough
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
I, John Prostitute, am offended by this.
Benn@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Many Hos
syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Yeah, doesn’t seem to be a thing in Norway, but it could probably be revived for the countries that did that. Like Sheryl Copywriter or Ross Youtuber or whatever.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 5 weeks ago
Dragon Rider The Bathroom At The Roller Rink
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
Conceived? You really want to be named after the motel your daddy did a big cummy in your mommy’s pussy?
vzq@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Are you familiar with the Paris Hilton?
It’s tacky, but let’s be honest, that’s the least tacky thing about her.
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
I think she gets a pass for the last name seeing as the hotels are named after her family and not the other way around.
Not sure if she was conceived in Paris. I’ll ask her next time I’m having a three-way again with her and your mom.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
That last sentence is cursed.
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
If you say so, Ms. Motel 6.
jdeath@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I seem to recall it was pretty common on Reddit (back in the day maybe)
Soup@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“London”: Not too bad, works ok.
“Climax”: …
“Tallahassee”: Pretty frickin’ awesome as a nickname but not sure formally.
“Syracuse”: I syr-acuse that of sounding dumb.
But regardless, besides all the “Von” or “De” or whatever names I’m willing to bet that modified or old spelling last names based on places are totally a thing that we also just decided to stop doing.
syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Yeah, like the -berg names (e.g. Stoltenberg), it’s likely the family farm if you go far enough back. My family has a name that’s an island and the settlement on it. Taking a profile picture next to the town sign that’s also our last name is pretty common (for a name of a few hundred people).
scytale@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Where they were born or conceived or something.
“Hi there, Mr. Dumpsterbach.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Certainly in the long past your last name was probably derived from the town or area that you lived in. I don’t think it would work today.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
You’d end up with lots of people in each area having the same name.
vzq@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And we do! The most common name in the Netherlands translates to “the Frisian”.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Terrible idea. People clearly already struggling at naming kids. Coming up with a family name will be endless letters making the wrong sound, random sections being ‘silent’, so many puns or references to things, corporate advertising “oh it’s the X.com family!”… Terrible, just terrible.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We could always do what Iceland does.
I’m sure that will scale up to much larger populations without issues.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Are you saying that the people who came up with the original surnames are more qualified than people today? At least with my idea when people come up with a new name they have to use it themselves, rather than their defenseless children.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
My wife and I actually did this, sort of. Not a completely new name, but we took her grandmother’s name, rather than either of ours. Or, her great grandfather’s name, I suppose.
droporain@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
Introducing Mr and Mrs. KoboldCoterie!
Kitathalla@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago
The only reason I wouldn’t want to take my partner’s name, or have the partner take mine, is the same reason I wouldn’t want to blend. It’s just a headache to make sure everything is changed. It’s why you see a lot of people who published research before their marriage continue to publish under the same name even if they changed their name. It’s a major hassle.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sure it’s a headache. So why does the woman have to do it? I think either keep your names as is or both people change.
Kitathalla@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago
I think either keep your names as is
Uh… that was exactly what I said…
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s great we’re in agreement. Your comment said “… a lot of people who published research before their marriage continue to publish under the same name even if they changed their name.”
So I didn’t read your comment as saying woman shouldn’t change their name, because you’re describing women changing their name, and then not using the new name in a specific context.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
My wife was made fun of for her last name until she was like 25 (her social group sucked), so she was delighted to changed her name when I asked her if we were going to use mine or hers. I still don’t entirely mind changing mine or keeping it: I’d gotten a few public works built around town and one of them was named after me, and if I took her name the chances of getting them to change the name of that shelter were fuck all. You can only be the center of the universe for so long. So it just kind of worked out for both of us.
julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
In Germany the current government had the idea (but never follow through on it) to allow a married couple to form a new last name based on their last names. Funnily enough the article mentions that this meshing of names is already possible and getting more popular in the USA and Great Britain.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah, you can legally change your first and your last name to pretty much whatever you want as long as it isn’t deemed too offensive in both the U.S. and the UK.
listverse.com/…/10-bizarre-legal-name-changes/
Big props to the kid who legally changed his name to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk and The Flash Combined
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
No thanks. I don’t care what my hypothetical spouse wants to do with their last name but I’m not changing mine. Sounds like a pain in the ass.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
it is a pain in the ass, a burden that is put on the woman
raoul@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
We should use uuids
nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
our beautiful baby boy Robert 3de2d34e-a089-4a5a-acd8-b00d7c7eb07a
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I mean it’s not far off from Musk’s X AE ZigZag VII Advent Children and Kkkopernicus Diceware Password kids.
JohnAnthony@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Oh yeah, little Bobby 3d we call him
batmaniam@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Calm down Enoch Root
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
There’s even a website cataloguing them all! everyuuid.com
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
UUID me daddy
Scrollone@feddit.it 5 weeks ago
I identify myself as a ULID.
spujb@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
came here to make this exact comment, was delighted it already exists XD