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Can someone suggest an interesting, dignified and different last name?

Asked by DarlingRhadamanthus (11273points) June 28th, 2010

Something a bit elegant, something a bit unusual..?

For a character in a story.

Thanks!

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Blackberry's avatar

Rhadamanthus.

janbb's avatar

la Fontaine

Vunessuh's avatar

Winters

De Vera

Torregrossa

Quattrochi

Coloma's avatar

Arrowbee

Gadwicke

Markston

Everley

Tannenbaum

Oysterman

Furthurington

ParaParaYukiko's avatar

Do you have a first name in mind to go with the last name…?

filmfann's avatar

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.

Coloma's avatar

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

Coloma's avatar

Gadwicke son of Smethwicke of Mt. Aukum! lol

ragingloli's avatar

Schopenhauer, Hegel, Wittgenstein, Popper, Cicero, Heidegger

AmWiser's avatar

Huntington

Churchill

Windsor

Fellerock :o)

Syger's avatar

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…

AstroChuck's avatar

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

lynfromnm's avatar

To me it depends upon the character’s heritage and era.

Elliott
Hines
Chavez
McDermott
Steinmetz
Grosvenor
Cupra
Beltran

Coloma's avatar

@AstroChuck @AstroChuck
Finster…lololol

Fabio Finster gentlemans gigalo. haha

PandoraBoxx's avatar

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

knitfroggy's avatar

Ashby
I used to know an older lady named Frances Ashby. She was very elegant. And I think it’s a pretty name.

valdasta's avatar

Sothersby
Truesdale
Dontes
Demarce
Dumontier

frolix's avatar

Mujila
Sraji
Toso
Swarni

Coloma's avatar

Jeez….I need about 80 more kids, dogs and cats…what a bunch of great names!

Jeruba's avatar

Midnight

Coloma's avatar

Flutherington

Dr_Lawrence's avatar

Leibowitz
Magnuson
Abrahamson

anartist's avatar

@Coloma and all of Fabio Finster’s spinsters!

LostInParadise's avatar

Does the name have to be Anglo-Saxon?
D’Alessandro
Aziz
Frenet
Beaumarchais
Simonovich
Rosario

anartist's avatar

Rothschild
Pazzi
Svensdatter
Worcester-Colby
Drumrossie
Patricione
Jelenfy
Liebchild
Sukhov
Running Deer

CMaz's avatar

Saint James

Coloma's avatar

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’

warka1's avatar

Sealere
arcan

anartist's avatar

Æthelred [derived from a mediæval English king]
@ChazMaz Brits say St James and pronounce it “sinjim”—no one but Brits use this

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DarlingRhadamanthus's avatar

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….......!

graynett's avatar

Titania
Oberon
Athell
Sir Effrael Aamsay Sydney Yarwickshire (EASY)

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