Bruh, Mozart's whole ass name was cool as hell. Not just his last name. This man wins hands down.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Mozart's full baptismal name was
Johannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart
But he went by a few different names, partially because there were so many different languages spoken by the aristocracy in 18th century Central Europe that he adapted his name to suit whatever language he was using at the moment. "Theophilus" is the Greek form of "Amadeus." Sometimes you'll see the German translation of "Gottlieb." Day-to-day, he is reported to have gone by "Wolfgang Amadè."
It wasn't uncommon for people to translate their names freely like this. Beethoven went by "Luigi" in Italian texts, and "Louis" in French.
"Giuseppe Verdi" would today be translated to English as "Joe Green."
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Ravenscroft
Instant goth
Mate here in italy we have "della morte" as a surname; which translates literally to "of the death". I don't think we can get more goth than this
Danzig
Glenn Danzig was born with the perfect name for an 80s metal band
Glenn Danzig was born with the perfect name for an 80s metal band
FYI Danzig is his stage name. His actual last name is Anzalone.
Ah, well fuck.
Still kinda cool though
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I knew this girl once whose surname was ΞΟΞ±ΞΊΞΏΟΞΏΟΞ»ΞΏΟ (Drakopulu) that means "daughter of the dragon"
I think that's pretty fire idk about you guys
I once worked with a guy with the last name of Fick (German for fuck) and a woman with the last name Lazarus. I found both quite cool. The guy in particular was very offensive with his name, always answering the phone with simply "Fick". I just looked him up and he has changed his last name, probably by marriage. I guess he found it unprofessional in the end.
It's common for German people to just answer the phone with their surname at work. He wasn't being offensive.
Well, ", hello?" is quite common. But just shouting Fick! when answering a call is always on purpose, no matter if it's your actual name.
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A person Iβve worked with before literally had the last name βCoolβ. I thought that was pretty cool.
I worked with a 'McCool'
He said introducing himself was a pickup line
Kuntz. Yep, said like That... As in Rusty Kuntz. Best baseball name in history:
I knew a girl whose last name was Fantasia. I always thought that was awesome
I met someone named McCool once. I thought that was pretty cool.
that's too cool
Sweet is a nice last name, though I'm sure some guys don't like being called "Mr. Sweet". Names like Fox or Wolf are pretty badass. Also some indigenous last names can be cool like Roundpoint or Buckshot.
Are you kidding? Mr. Sweet sounds like some kind of professional hitman. I do not want to meet with any Mr. Sweet :)
Villalobos.
Instantly makes any given name sound badass.
"I am Clancy, from the Town of the Wolves."
I worked with teacher named Mr. Zero for a year. He was super cool.
Also, if you haven't seen it, the Zero Effect is a solid movie with Ben Stiller and Bill Pullman. The latter plays Daryl Zero.
One of the IT people at my high school had a surname of "Code". He did write some code, but mainly KiXtart scripts.
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Smithe. It's Smith with an E. Your source of high quality names.
Not to be confused with "Smith, eh" which is most commonly found in Canada.
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Cantalapiedra which can be roughly translated as: the stone that sings. Canta: sing La: the Piedra: stone
I know a doctor named Docter.
But West is the coolest I've seen "in the wild".
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Max Warman. Seriously.
Honestly you can Google anything like "best last name" and get some crazy nonsense, it's great.
Shaft
Name has its own theme song
I knew a Shaft, used to work with him. He was the farthest from cool, and also lacked integrity.
At the cemetery I work at we got a couple Blickenderfers, Hammermeisters, and even a couple Deatherages. All pretty BA names. One of the Deatherages was even named Ozzy.
I've always thought the name Buchanan sounded... Not cool per se but... Atmospheric? Like it could only belong to one of those old-money families up to their eyeballs in secret societies and mystery.
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Honestly, my own. Meyers is pretty good, even if nobody knows how to spell it.
RamRod
Matadamas
It's Spanish and, translated to English, means: Lady-killer
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DeLeΓ²n
I have some family named Cambias, and learned it's because they lost their last names in the Spanish inquisition when they were forcibly converted to Christianity. Changed.
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Dudemeister, went to school with a German guy with the last name. They also used it on scrubs https://scrubs.fandom.com/wiki/Keith_Dudemeister
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