User blog comment:Airbenderfreak/Surnames are the worst/name vote/@comment-4598697-20171106004703

Surnames can be hard for me too sometimes. Usually, for foreign OCs (which make up the majority of my OCs), I look for a word relevant to the story and find the equivalent in that language. Most of my OCs have the meaning of their surname explained in their article.

Some I had to be careful with, like for Yolande Cerf I used the French word for deer, since the French word for doe (as in The White Doe) is biche, which despite not being vulgar in French, is too similar to a familiar English swear word.