DH used to date a girl with the last name of Butt. If you were tortured all thru school with a bad last name, then I would not want to label a child with it. My last name is spelled exactly like a girls first name. My brothers took quite a razzing over that name, and both said if they had the choice, they would pick a new last name for their kids. Neither had any.


now if you have a regular or tame name, perhaps you could honor a long lost relative or pick something that you believe would give this child some advantages in life. Exhusband was quite upset that I refused to name my son after him. He had an awful name, and it was not something I was going to saddle DS with.