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[ SECRET POST #3176 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3176 ⌋

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[Journey]

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[Absolutely Fabulous]

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(Sam Smith, Lana Del Rey, Shirley Bassey, Ellie Goulding)

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[Tim Drake, DC Comics]

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[FIFA, World Soccer Championship]

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[Calvin Dyson - Bond Reviewer, The Anime Man, BobSamurai's Anime Reviews, Retroblasting, Oliver Harper's Retrospective and Reviews]

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We've had threads about our first names, so lets have one about surnames!

What is your surname?

Where does it come from?

What do you like about it? What don't you like about it?

Where do you live, and is your surname common for the area? Can people usually spell it?

Does it sound nice with your first name?

Do you think it looks nice on a dotted line with your address below it? Feel free to post pictures!

Harper.
It is from England I believe.
I like that it is mine. I think it is boring, but I'm still going to keep it if I marry. I like it better than my first name.
I live in Texas. It isn't a super common name but it is fairly easy to spell. No one has gotten it wrong yet.
Sure, I guess?

Jones.

It comes frtom Wales.

I like that everyone knows how to spell it. I don't like how common it is (tricky for email addresses and stuff).

Kind of common, but maybe not as common as in some parts of the US. Most people can spell it because they've heard of it, even if they don't know other people with it.

Yes, my first name is a bit long, so a short, common last name goes well with it.

I guess.

I'm not telling you my last name. It's Irish, being as it comes from my grandfather, who was Irish. I like that it's short. I'm fine with it. It's not rare where I live, being that there's a lot of people of Irish descent, but not common either. Everyone knows how to spell it.

My only problem with my name is that I'd prefer to switch my first name and my middle name. Everything else is fine.

Do you think it looks nice on a dotted line with your address below it? Feel free to post pictures!

I... I don't think I will be doing that.

Not that I don't love receiving mail, anon. I'm just not sure we're ready to take the next step in our relationship.

Re-reading it I'm not entirely sure that's what anon means, or if (s)he just means... well, something else.

Anon, you may want to elaborate on what you had in mind here.

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not naming it because it's really uncommon, but it's one syllable and german in origin. haven't been able to find anything about its meaning, but the part of our family who stayed in germany has the same spelling so i guess it wasn't americanized.

i hated it when i was little because it was short and a fair amount of people pronouce it wrong, but now i it's nice to have a short name (my full name's about six letters long give or take)

also:

anon a moose
5534 effess lane
Dream, WI 68063

: )

Good evening, spreadsheet!anon, and how are you this fine evening?

Nice try, spreadsheet anon.

but, doctor riven, you already use your full name here

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Rather not say, sorry.

Germany, by way of the German/French border.

It's cool! But no one can pronounce it. :/

Oregon, no, no.

Yeah, I think so; enough that I don't want to change it if/when I get married.

Depends on if I write it well or not, lol.

My surname looks vaguely Scandinavian; in fact, it's an Anglicized version of a Greek name--my father's family were from the island of Chios. Some of the extended family still spell it the original way

My full name is an ugly mouthful. I hate that I usually have to spell both my given name and my surname for people at least twice. If I don't, people usually spell my last name Eggleston. My first name, Margret, they usually spell Mergratt, or something equally awful. WTF, folks. It's not that unusual. And my first name plus my middle name = a serious candidate for grossest female Catholic saint ever: she was a nurse who used to catch patients' puke in her mouth. I swear I'm not making this up.

I live in Iowa, so all the lutefisk-eating midwesterners around me assume I'm Scandinavian too. Uffda.

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It's English, it's stodgy as porridge, no idea where it comes from. Sounds ugly with my first name, which I hate also.

I'm so glad spreadsheet!anon is still around, I came back recently and wondered whether you were still here!

It's an everyday English word. I love it because I never have to tell people how to spell it. It makes up for having a first name I always have to spell if I want anyone to get it right.

Both my surnames are very rare, so I won't say what they are.

One from my mother's side of the family (that is technically my middle name, but I always use it with my 'proper' surname) most likely comes from a city in Denmark that my ancestors may have come from. It's been our family name for about 400 years, which is quite rare here in Norway as surnames didn't become mandatory until 1923. 140 people has it as their surname here, though some (like myself) aren't included amongst those as it's really a middle name.

My other surname comes from the farm my dad's family comes from, and is a lot newer. It doesn't even have a standardised spelling within the family as I think between my grandfather and his 13 siblings there are 3 different ways to spell it. Only 88 people have this name in Norway.

I love the way my names sound together. I feel like it both looks and sounds quite balanced. It is a bit of a mouthful though, and most people misspell all my names, first name included.

My branch of the family uses the English version of a Hebrew word. Both it and the Hebrew form are extremely uncommon (it gets a lot of comments), and there is a 50+% chance that anyone else in the world with that name is distantly related to me.

Potato.

According to the online etymology dictionary, it comes from the Spanish patata.

I like that it describes the very essence of my being. I don't like that I share it with all others of my kind.

I live in the United States. It's very common, and people can usually spell it, although some add an "e" to the end of it.

I think it goes brilliantly with my first name.

Yes.

Nice try, spreadsheet anon. ;)

George.

A fairly common boys name. I used to be super bothered by this as a kid, and jealous of everyone else's last names. Even now I am admittedly eager to take my eventual husband's last name. Trading up for something more interesting sounding.

Also it's apparently common as a last name too, I've seen at least two authors with the same last name and one movie character (yes I have the same last name as Regina from Mean Girls, lol).

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Spiegel. It's German, probably a slightly roundabout location-based surname (it means mirror, you describe a lake as mirror-like, you say that someone lives by the lake that looks like a mirror... I think you can fill in the rest).

I like it because it reminds me of all the family history it carries, and all the shit my family went through to get where they are today. I dislike (very slightly) that, because it's a fairly common Jewish name, and I'm of Jewish decent, it's easy to assume that it comes from the Jewish side of the family (when it actually comes from my asshole great-grandfather who left my half-Jewish great-grandmother because being married to a half-Jewish woman under the Nazi government was bad for his career prospects).

My family are the only Spiegels in the state. I have to spell it out for people every time because they almost always the the I and the E the wrong way around.

I suppose it sounds okay with my given names. Both my first and middle names are from great-grandmothers, so they're fairly traditional-sounding; and my middle name is from great-grandmother Spiegel, so it's even a traditional German name.

It's Jewish, but not a very common one.

I'd rather not say, specifically, but it's Lithuanian, and not remotely common. (There are nine people in the US with my surname, and they're all my immediate family.

It gets misspelled/mispronounced constantly, but most of the mispronunciations are just its original pronunciation, really, as it got Americanized a bit in pronunciation when the family moved here.

But all told, I like it!

What is your surname? McDerp

Where does it come from? Germany

What do you like about it? What don't you like about it? It's pretty unique, but I never get taken seriously. ...Or do I?

Where do you live, and is your surname common for the area? Can people usually spell it? I live in Canada and last I checked there were no other McDerps in the phone book.

Does it sound nice with your first name? I like to think so

Another German last name here. I like it - both my first and last name have long E sounds and hard K sounds, so it's a nice, even-sounding full name. Not a common surname anywhere I've lived in the U.S. though. I was recently my dad's next-of-kin during a surgery; when the doctor came to the (super crowded) waiting room, she looked at her clipboard, stared at it a minute longer, then started trying to sound it out. I was like, "That's probably me" (and it was), so she was relieved.

Some might presume Sardinia refers to the Italian island, but no, it doesn't. It simply refers to the fish, Sardines. One of my early nicknames was "Mimi Fish".

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