Going to school nowadays can be tough with bullies running rampant, but imagine if your name was Mr. Balls or Ms. Cocks? Though decreasing in popularity, these have been common surnames in the past.
Names like Cocks, Shufflebottom and Gotobeds were once common in Britain, but a new study shows their numbers dwindling, "the number of people with the name Cock shrank to 785
last year from 3,211 in 1881, those called Balls fell to 1,299 from
2,904 and the number of Deaths were reduced to 605 from 1,133."
I still feel bad for the 1,299 who have to answer to "Mr. Balls" out there! It couldn't have been an easy childhood.
But for those who would love to meet someone with a hilariously inappropriate last name, don't fret, the surname Wang has gone up by 2225% in the last 12 years!
– Andy
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the surname “wang” is pronounced like “wong” fyi.
not a “wahng”-esque sound with a long A vowel sound? >.>
lmao, my first grade teacher was Mrs. Cox.