Help us find a new surname

Nice idea, but is it actually legal?

Do you want to use all letters or just some?

ideas:

Korrs

Sellers

Lake

Beck

Sorrel

Chello

Sellack

Bell

Eckle

School

there are probably millions of options

Yup we would change our names by deed poll.

Horseroll?!

Friends of mine took half of each of their mothers maiden names and created a new name that way.

Just some of the letters; definitely not all! H2B currently has a short surname and he would like to have a nice succinct surname. We would also like something that sounds quite nice and sophisticated (i.e., not too chavvy and nothing which any jokes could be made out of, e.g. one of our friends suggested bellocks but we could see that could potentially lead to bullying for any future children!)

Personally, I would like to avoid anything that sounds like "elo" as it just sounds wrong with my first name!

of course it is lol its just a name change you apply through deed poll exactly the same as you would with anything else

I already have my mothers maiden name, so that just wouldn't work for us.

I have a few friends who have changed names for personal reasons (like family issues) I always suggest trying celebrity surnames or (as morbid as it sounds) looking around grave yards for names

you have a good collection of letters so it could be possible to find lots of good name, you could see if any here feel right:

http://surname.sofeminine.co.uk/w/surnames/most-common-surnames-in-great-britain.html

Lovely!

Lockers?

It's so hard just looking at the letters haha, lovely idea though!

I went to school with a lovely girl and knew some of her siblings, all of whom were lovely (and rather well to do! haha) by the name of 'Hocklers' and it's a name which always conjures up lovely, polite people to me. So I rather like that you can make:

'Hocklors'

with your letters.

Though really and truly it's, so, so personal we can suggest anything and everything, but eventually you'll come up with together which just feels right.

Best of luck to you- it sounds lovely and really exciting!

You might not even need deed poll unless is to a double-barreled name

https://www.gov.uk/change-name-deed-poll

I thought of doing it too but OH wasn't keen on the idea!! Hehe

Would you be ok with repeating letters?

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Oh yeah - so if Hoofbeat's OH changed it slightly before, only one of them would need to by deed poll!

To 'hockle' is to 'gob juicy mucus' in my book!

Rosehall?

You can have (pretty much) anything you want & it'll be legal.

I think you should get creative like Phoebe and Mike in Friends....

Princess Consuila Bananahammock and Crap Bag

Solar

Please do this!! ?

I like rosehall or what about;

Booker

Cashell

Solbeck

Hmm, Bampax. I don't think that would have worked for us. Sounds like a new tampon brand.

Scholar?

I have a friend who did not legally get married to her partner as he didn't believe in it, just had a humanist ceremony and made up a new name (based on the town where they had the ceremony) which they legally changed to afterwards. There were a few 'Princess Consuela Bananahammock' jokes made but now I think that the outside world (those of us not there for the ceremony, when they announced their new name) think they are legally married and seem to have accepted the new name and status quo without any problems.

PMSL love that description of Hockle

There are loads of options, the easiest thing is to put the letters in here: http://www.scrabblecheat.com/

A few I saw which are interesting: Sherlock, Rockrose, Colorable and Solar. I think I like Rockrose, just stood out for me.

Good Luck

xx