Reply #100: Russian mother, German father, British last name.

[Zavulon]

Believe it or not, I was given the last name of my mother's first husband because, according to my mother, her maiden name and my biological father's last names are "too long and hard to pronounce." Amazingly, my father had no objection. Both of their last names are 12 letters long, my last name is eight letters long. I guess they both figured I wasn't going to be a bright child if the extra four letters were a deal-breaker.