Change Your Name?

I was watching a topical chat show on TV yesterday and one of the questions posed was "would you ditch an embarrassing surname?" just because people laugh whenever you introduce yourself as Mr. Ticklecock or Penny Smellie?

One of the callers on the show was a Mrs Goodhead lol, which didn't sound that bad to me. Another woman though was a Mrs Hooker, who did change her name because she was a teacher and said she didn't want the children all saying their teacher was a hooker.

Whether you have an embarrassing surname or not my question is would you (or have you already) changed your name? How bad would it need to be before you'd consider it? Not asking anyone to divulge their surname's btw!

No way! I say embrace it. 🙂

My surname is rather boring and quite English ( I am not, septic here ). My first name, however is very unique. I didn't care for it as a girl because of all the teasing and so on. But now I love it. If my name is called, one head turns round, mine. 🙂

^ LOL!!!

Haha! That is class. Dude has a sense of humour that's for sure.

Most people though, I would imagine anyway, in their daily lives wouldn't always see the funny side. I mean especially at school, kids are so mean.

What if your surname was..........Dumfart.

That's gotta hurt!

I would imagine not. My father knew a dude in high school. Surname was Glasscock. What a bummer that would be shackled to you for life. Everyone called him "Hollow Peter".

I suppose it all depends on the individual and the actual surname and how strongly you feel about it.

I mean the Goodhead one I just find funny but that's because I'm older now and so I could probably laugh it off. Imagine being a young teenage girl though being teased by boys about it.

The discussion on the show (which is in the UK) was all about the embarrassment versus keeping hundreds, possibly thousands of years of family history.

TOC you're lying. Lol

True. And being female, one can always lose the surname in wedlock.

I think the worst one, hands down. And yes I laughed till I cried. Local politician, and his signs were "Vote for Harry Balls". No joke. What on earth were his parents thinking? "Harold would be SUCH a nice name, seeing as how our last name is BALLS and all." 😛

Posted by TasteOfChaos
Met a lady called...

Constance Smoker

Haha no way!

One of the ones quoted was "Winterbottom" which I actually rather like! Sounds dead posh.

I used to work for a swimming pool builder...and one of their clients was named Michael Hunt. Mike Hunt for short. 😛

Whenever LL would joke around about Mike Hunt on here I'd secretly giggle.

OMG, that reminds me. In the phone book. "Michael Bigmeat".

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I used to work for a swimming pool builder...and one of their clients was named Michael Hunt. Mike Hunt for short. 😛

Whenever LL would joke around about Mike Hunt on here I'd secretly giggle.

I had to say Mike Hunt out loud several times before I got it lol.

At high school my biology teacher was called Miss Ritchie. Nothing wrong with that, except that some of the guys used to call her Matitsa lol.

See that's the thing I suppose, kids will take the piss out of anything!

i've always had a rather funny-sounding last name, to most americans anyway. basically because it's not an english (or english-sounding) surname. when i was younger, i hated it. but i don't mind it now. i kind of like having a unique name (for here, anyway).

the length is more of a problem than the way it sounds these days. it takes me like 5 mins to sign my full name. lol. so that's the one reason i wouldn't mind changing it.

It is probably ugly to say that but what the hell.. there is name as Rasoul (Muslim name and means messenger like prophet or something) and there is a word in Norwegian as (rassh??l) means (asshole)..

Poor guys with the name of Rasoul in Norway.. If they wanted to live in Norway they should definitely change their name??_

And about the changing names...

Your names is no accident, it was inspired to your parents by TPTB when you were born..

hahaha@Mrs. Hooker

lol@Taha too

and Tasha also

My aunt changed her name officially. She went from Carol to Roxanne, for reasons unbeknownst to me (although my dad thinks she became involved with some weird cult) but I still call her "aunt Carol" which she hates. That may well be the reason I still call her it actually. 😛

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Clifford Raper...that was my neighbor while growing up. The neighborhood kids were relentless with that one

Ouch, poor guy.