Can someone suggest an interesting, dignified and different last name?
Something a bit elegant, something a bit unusual..?
For a character in a story.
Thanks!
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Winters
De Vera
Torregrossa
Quattrochi
Arrowbee
Gadwicke
Markston
Everley
Tannenbaum
Oysterman
Furthurington
Do you have a first name in mind to go with the last name…?
When my single daughter was pregnant, she decided to give the baby a last name that wasn’t hers, or the fathers. I suggested Pitt-Jolie. Might as well give that kid every advantage.
I like to look at an Atlas of names of townships…‘Gadwicke’ was a name I picked for my now gone cat..a town in Briton. lol
Gadwicke son of Smethwicke of Mt. Aukum! lol
Schopenhauer, Hegel, Wittgenstein, Popper, Cicero, Heidegger
Huntington
Churchill
Windsor
Fellerock :o)
Atlas could be nice, as far as I know it’s not too blatantly of one culture or status-implying.
then again, I am a huge Bioshock nerd…
Hassenpfeffer
Finster
Smythe
Quaker
Parish
de Morais
Englund
Paradero
O’Keefe
Zacharias
Jellison
Archbold
Geronimo
VanderVelden
Spewak
Strizek
Caesar
Beauregard
Luna
Temple
Frizzell
Baltazar
Nevada
Paulus
Juniper
To me it depends upon the character’s heritage and era.
Elliott
Hines
Chavez
McDermott
Steinmetz
Grosvenor
Cupra
Beltran
One of my favorite last names is A’Sturgus. This family showed up in Jefferson Co. KY in the the late 1700’s, migrated to Indiana, and were killed of by Indian raids on the Kentucky frontier. I love the name Minard A’Sturgus.
N° 16. A Grant to Minard Asturgus, Sepf 17* 1784, of a tract of
land extending from the River Kaskaskia to the ledge of rocks,
& from thence of forty Arpents in depth, bounded on one side
by Clark & Wikoff, & on the other by John Dodge.
http://www.beckes.org/records/military/knox.htm
Ashby
I used to know an older lady named Frances Ashby. She was very elegant. And I think it’s a pretty name.
Sothersby
Truesdale
Dontes
Demarce
Dumontier
Jeez….I need about 80 more kids, dogs and cats…what a bunch of great names!
Leibowitz
Magnuson
Abrahamson
@Coloma and all of Fabio Finster’s spinsters!
Does the name have to be Anglo-Saxon?
D’Alessandro
Aziz
Frenet
Beaumarchais
Simonovich
Rosario
Rothschild
Pazzi
Svensdatter
Worcester-Colby
Drumrossie
Patricione
Jelenfy
Liebchild
Sukhov
Running Deer
Gadwicke son of Smethwicke of Mt. Aukum was my cats name and a town where I used to live. lol
‘Aukum’ is pronounced ’ Aww-come’
Æthelred [derived from a mediæval English king]
@ChazMaz Brits say St James and pronounce it “sinjim”—no one but Brits use this
These were great!! Thank you so much!!!
I hope all of you enjoyed reading them as much as I did!
I’ll have to think about some of these….......!
Titania
Oberon
Athell
Sir Effrael Aamsay Sydney Yarwickshire (EASY)
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