What are some good, characteristically southern last names?

Abney. Lol.

Childre

Gott

Stallworth

Yates

Jones.

Rufus
Edit: I thought you meant first names
Weylin

What part of the South?

Gump? :D

Let me give it some thought for a few. I do, after all, live in the South.

I always liked Culpepper. Very old Southern family, and has an amusing sound to it.

@FluffyChicken We haven’t established this yet. I suggested the mansion we’re working within be plantation-style in landscape and architecture, but that’s as far as I’ve got.

Foote

Smith
Brown
Miller
Harris
Fisher
Graham
Crawford
Cunningham
Williamson
Benson
Even more here.

Friedchicken?

Bodine

Blevins

@smilingheart1 : Foote? Wow. I come from a long line of Feete, and no mention was ever made of a southern branch. New England is seriously a bastion of the Foote family…who knew there were southern Feete? Cool.

Lee

I think of a lot of French origin names as sounding Southern US. Names like, Reynard, Broussard, Cormier, Landry, LaFontaine, etc.

Beauregard

Yes..@Blueroses!

The name Cletus peaked from 1920–1930