Are there some last names that it seems like people would really want to change?

Ya here there is the second name ‘hoare’..which sucks if you are a woman.

Boozer
Titsworth
Hitler
Dommer
Gasey

@DrBill Excellent.

I wouldn’t want my last name to be “Wiener”. And there some people with the last name “Weiner” (which, based on German pronunciation, would be pronounced “why-ner” yet they still pronounce it “wee-ner”. Why would you choose that pronunciation?) :P

I don’t know, DK! LOLL!

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I knew a woman once with the last name “Winterbottom”.

Ah, good ole’ Frosty Ass.

I want my last name to be Mantooth, like in Anchorman, the opposing news team’s anchor. Deni Mantooth.

Fartz Ms. Fartz…um, no.

My daughters dentist is named Dr. Boozer..OMG! That guy, classic! Big phoney smile, just reeks of narcissism, has pictures of himself all over his office, he’s such a schmoozer…Schmoozer Boozer. lol

I have a relative (by marriage) whose last name is Balls.

I dated a girl in high school with the last name Ovary. Combined with my last name, it was really quite comical.

The Balls and Ovarys should get together. lol

My husband works with a guy named Seimen Wadd. I kid you not. There are plenty of last names here in Norway that sound bad in English. Middlefart if quite common. Aas, (it is pronounced like a long O, not ass, but the English always miss it) I worked with a guy named Harald Aas. His wife was Canadian and she said her friends and family called him Harry Ass to bug him. Dick is another last name we have talked about here.

An acquaintence has the unfortunate last name of Prekker (and she married into it and took it anyway!).

There is an artist by the last name of Lipschitz.

My friend used to live on a street (that I assume was named after someone) called Hurlbut. I’ve heard of Hurlburt before, but Hurlbut has connotations of barfing out of your arse.

A high school friend had the last name Doody.

And once, when I was visiting my SIL’s classroom, I noticed that one of her students had the last name of Poon.

Dorkoff.
Cockburn.
Crapper.
Slutskaya.
Litoris.
I knew a Chip Hair while growing up, his father’s name was Dick.

@judochop I forgot about Irina Slutskaya the figure skater. It’s a good thing she was so talented, and in Russia, her name probably sounds OK.

Let’s not forget about Dick Butkus.

And I recently met someone with the last name of Weenus.

And both the last names Wang and Dong are common in China.

And I just noticed that there are a few people in the phone book with the last name of Yanker, including these poor blokes who are actually named Richard Yanker

And this poor man named Richard Poker York&state=NY&age=&utm_source=wp&utm_content=name&utm_campaign=speedbump

@Kardamom Oh, your post jogs my memory. I used to work for a chinese man years ago, his name was Bong Chung. lol Of course this was the 70’s, and everyone had a bong back then, pretty funny when I was 17.

Sexton
McBride
Moeller (pronounced Mole-er)
Baudier (Everyone calls her booty)

I accidentally dumped used bong water on myself back in the 70’s, @Coloma. And I was out of town without a change of clothes. Later on I peed on the strap of the overalls I was wearing when I dumped bong water on me. Out of town without a change of clothes. I tried to fix it all by dumping perfume on me. I don’t think I met one guy who was the least bit interested that night. To this day, the smell of old bong water will waft at me out of freaking nowhere!! I’ll be driving along and “Oh! I smell old bong water!”

I’ll bet you guys didn’t think I would laugh at stuff like this. but I can’t help myself.

I worked with an old guy whose name was Hugh Dick. Nice, nice man but man I had to hold back a giggle when anyone would call him by his full name.

LOL!! AAAAAND for the win! It’s @Jeruba !!

@Jeruba Those made me giggle. If you remove three letters from my husband’s name we would be Moore/Cox. close call with that one. phew!

Sandusky

My, we are a lively bunch tonight, and no, I am not under the influence of anything stronger than almond milk. lol

I’ve been drinking nothing but water.

I know a:
Randy Hooker
Randy Shank
and my son knows a Mike Hunt.

I used to have a customer with a perfectly nice last name: Love. However, his first name was: Gay.

Ann Landers (or was it Dear Abby?) told of a couple named Hogg, who named their daughters Ima and Ura.

I worked with a guy named Alan Dick. His wife was going to have a baby girl and he was telling us what he couldn’t call her. Iona, Emma, Amanda, Beate, Patty, Gabby,

You can find Ima Hogg—a distinguished Texan who had no sisters—and quite a few others in John Train’s Remarkable Names of Real People and its sequels. However, the book concentrates on given names and combinations rather than on extraordinary last names; in other words, instances where the strange name was the result of deliberate choice. Two others that I remember: Mary Rhoda Duck, Forty Three Ford.

Seriously…The Freud Reader was edited by a guy named Peter Gay. I saw that book in one of my classrooms and about fell over!!