Surnames That You Would Rather Not Have.

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I like my name, but it frustrates me to no end having to pronounce and spell it over and over to the same idiots who can't pronounce any name beyond "Smith" and "Jones."

Names I'd absolutely not want:

I go with the list of dictator names someone else posted. If I were Uzbekistani, I would get rid of the name Karimov in a hurry.

Names pronounced radically differently from the way they're spelled would also be names I'd change in a hurry. I wouldn't want a name as mundane as "Smith," but I would want one with a more sensible pronunciation. Spanish names are the most straightforward.

^ spanish names are indeed straightforward, as are italian, finnish, most names in languages that are orthographically transparent such as those.

the only exception i could think of is any name starting with "gui" like guille or guillermo, it's pronounced [gi] ("gee-yeh", "gee-yer-mo")

maybe one could say it as "gwi", and that would be understandable.

"Fuchs" are an interesting bunch.

Went to school with a kid with the last name "Dickman". It was pronounced "Dick-mun" but everyone quickly got to calling him "Dick-man"...

I've always found the name of Wang Computers funny and, credit to them, they're not afraid to play on it.

In the Underground Comedy Movie there is a superhero skit called the Adventures of Dickman

Gayfer

Crapp

Badcock

the student president for the high school graduating class right after mine had the last name of "babcock".

English (particularly American English) is so chock full of slang that its worse than a minefield. You cant take a step in any direction with setting off an explosion.

Some enterprising east Asian immigrant runs a car repair place in my town under his name: "Poon Auto".

Any name pronounced radically differently from the way it's spelled. The weirdest name I've seen is an English one: Cholmondelay (pronounced "Chumley.")

Actor Tim Allen's full name was Timothy Allen Dick.

Another unfortunate name from the political arena: Wiener!

We covered "Wiener" on page four of this thread already.

As opposed to...

the entrance for specialized hookers? The ones that do specific fetishes?

a lot of celtic languages are guilty of that.

latin script is not at all suited for them.