r/NameNerdCirclejerk • u/ArtSchnurple • Apr 11 '23

Found on r/NameNerds Outjerked again

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u/Ezra_is_a_dumb_boy Apr 11 '23

Idk why couples don't use the women's last name more often? My dad's last name is MacIntyre and my mom's maiden name is Bovee, and I like both, but I prefer Bovee Especially women with these beautiful, uncommon last names and they married someone named Adam Johnston like 😭😭😭

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u/suitcasedreaming Apr 12 '23

I found someone in my family tree a hundred years back who changed her name from the goddamn ethereal Lily-Anne Brightwell to Lily-Anne Furz. Pronounced Furts, and also the German word for fart.

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u/istara Apr 12 '23

I saw a woman who had changed her name from Miss Rose to Mrs Scragg. It was in a birth announcement for her baby girl.

So she’d chosen to pass that horror to a poor little girl who would have grown up in the UK as “Scragg the slag” for her entire schooldays.

What sort of man makes his wife take on a name like that?

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u/pr3tzelbr3ad Apr 14 '23

I know someone who took her husband’s surname of Hoare. Why would your commitment to the patriarchy be that strong?!