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why's your last name so weird?
my last name is "Ankeny". try to pronounce that! (ank-i-nee) i know, it is totally weird. it's funny though when people like telemarketers call and try to pronounce our name. ROFL! we've gotten everything from "Ank and Nee" to "Onkeny". do you have a weird last name that people can't pronounce? what is it?
LOL! even the spellcheck is going nuts with my last name. =P
8 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
my last name is kinda unusual, Freeland.
Its Native American (as if its not hard to tell! lol)
kinda self-explanatory too. lol
- 1 decade ago
My last name is a location in England. It was in the Domesday Book of 1067, so it's very old. But people have never heard of it, and have no idea how to pronouce it.
I get stupid attempts, people randomly adding whatever sounds they like into it, and I even had someone tell me I was spelling my name wrong - it's been spelled the same for the past 300 years at least. I think I know how to spell my own name. the people I really hate are the ones you correct, and then a minute later they get it wrong again. It's not that hard to pronounce.
I'm glad I'm not a Smith though; that would be annoying.
- Katie CLv 61 decade ago
NO one can spell my name
and not even my family pronounces it right
we made it all wonky at ellis island and two sides of my family pronounce it differently
in reality it really starts with a 'chee' sound but we pronounce it as 'shi'
i have to tell people it starts with a c or they get confused
favorite mispelling shipolaski or something
yeah im not polish or anything no idea where that came from
my name is italian by the way
oh but my cousins have an awesome 12 letter last name
Mastragiacomo- wow they must have a hard time
- Joyce BLv 71 decade ago
My last name is not weird and neither is yours.
Swiss German: altered form of Ankner, an occupational name for a dairyman who made and sold butter, from Swiss German anke ‘butter’, ankenen ‘to make butter’.
I do have to spell my name alot, but then so many do.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
My last name is Rocha, people that speak spanish pronounce right but people that only speak english say it like Roka.
- ♫4 ur eyes only♫Lv 41 decade ago
Last name: Monroe..pretty common actually.
People always ask me if my first name is Marilyn...nope...am I related to the president...no idea.....all the ?? get annoyin!!!!
Telemarketers get us too......they pronounce it MONroe....gets me so mad..you think if they were calling MY house they would know how to pronounce my name, huh!!!!
- 1 decade ago
Because it's an Anglicanized form of a corrupted French name that was translated from German.
Source(s): You asked. - Anonymous1 decade ago
no...but my last name has no known meaning and is fairly rare