[royal__]

For instance, 'Longbottom' is translated quite literally, which can feel a bit silly.

[psidebot]

As someone with an English "bottom" as in bottom-lands surname, I appreciate the deliberate silliness of "Longbottom" while leaning into a very traditional British sounding name.

[d0mine]

Does it refer to a large valley? (lots of fertile ground) Perhaps, it is a punny reference to him being a pure blood.

[IncreasePosts]

It's silly in English too. Perhaps some British readers might be familiar with the name and its history/origins, but for most English readers, I suspect, it just sounds a bit silly, like he has a very tall butt.

[rendall]

Washington, D.C. has the famous Foggy Bottom.

Edit: America has a lot of bottoms, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geographical_bottoms

Nowhere as grand as Aunt Mary's Bottom but South Dakota does have a Big Bottom.

[TRiG_Ireland]

It's silly, but it does feel like a real name. There are many such names in Britain.

[0xDEADFED5]

Longbottom is the serious version, before that it was Stretcharse.

[Biganon]

In French he's called "Londubat", which phonetically means "long FROM the bottom", which is arguably even worse than the English name.