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Position:Home>Genealogy> Why's your last name so weird?Question: 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!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: my last name is kinda unusual, Freeland!. Its Native American (as if its not hard to tell! lol) kinda self-explanatory too!. lol Www@QuestionHome@Com 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!. Www@QuestionHome@Com 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 timeWww@QuestionHome@Com 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!. Www@QuestionHome@Com 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!!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com Because it's an Anglicanized form of a corrupted French name that was translated from German!.Www@QuestionHome@Com My last name is Rocha, people that speak spanish pronounce right but people that only speak english say it like Roka!.Www@QuestionHome@Com no!.!.!.but my last name has no known meaning and is fairly rareWww@QuestionHome@Com |