[Oh, dear, that actually is something she's heard before. Though it wasn't exactly in the best of terms, to be quite fair.]

I've heard the name mentioned before in conversations between my family and others, but nothing specific.

Your family sounds a lot more interesting than mine does, though I can understand the sentiment of not knowing how to raise someone differently if they have no way of doing so. My situation is a little... to put it kindly, there was a reason my father took my mother's last name instead.