Quote:I've seen fanfics which do exactly that, but I personally don't like it.
Well, given how many of the other names in the series are bad puns, you -could- make a case that the Sand Sibs' surname really -is- 'Sabakuno,' I guess.
Incidentally, on the "common Naruto-world suffix" - the kanji involved, the one read "-maru", is listed in edict as being a suffix for ship names; there's no real good translation in English, but I've been known to parse (for instance) "Konohamaru" informally in my head as roughly "leaf-named". Make of the information what you will.
Incidentally, it might be worthwhile to provide somewhere (for the benefit of those who don't have a Japanese dictionary handy) an explanation of what "hasshin" actually means...