What last name do you think is neat? It could sound cool, have an interesting meaning or history, etc.

  • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    I once worked with a guy with the last name of Fick (German for fuck) and a woman with the last name Lazarus. I found both quite cool. The guy in particular was very offensive with his name, always answering the phone with simply “Fick”. I just looked him up and he has changed his last name, probably by marriage. I guess he found it unprofessional in the end.

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    7 months ago

    Bruh, Mozart’s whole ass name was cool as hell. Not just his last name. This man wins hands down.

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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      7 months ago

      Mozart’s full baptismal name was

      Johannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

      But he went by a few different names, partially because there were so many different languages spoken by the aristocracy in 18th century Central Europe that he adapted his name to suit whatever language he was using at the moment. “Theophilus” is the Greek form of “Amadeus.” Sometimes you’ll see the German translation of “Gottlieb.” Day-to-day, he is reported to have gone by “Wolfgang Amadè.”

      It wasn’t uncommon for people to translate their names freely like this. Beethoven went by “Luigi” in Italian texts, and “Louis” in French.

      “Giuseppe Verdi” would today be translated to English as “Joe Green.”

  • 🕸️ Pip 🕷️@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    I knew this girl once whose surname was Δρακοπούλου (Drakopulu) that means “daughter of the dragon”

    I think that’s pretty fire idk about you guys

  • Gamma@beehaw.org
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    7 months ago

    I knew someone with the last name Lancaster, it feels both game of thronesy and cyberpunky

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    7 months ago

    A person I’ve worked with before literally had the last name ‘Cool’. I thought that was pretty cool.

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      7 months ago

      Mate here in italy we have “della morte” as a surname; which translates literally to “of the death”. I don’t think we can get more goth than this