Great Real Names

Among ilxen, Ned and Matos and Martin and Lara have damn cool names, and if I'm remembering Ally's full name correctly, she sounds like a Barbara Stanwyck character.

ps he is a dick

anyway.. i used to work for a multinational company which had a searchable online name and address book. So we used to have office competitions to find the best names..

So. here we go with some of the best (and these are real employees)

Nick Sex
Shirley Shallow
Tory S Gaylord
Ricardo Cunto
Eduardo Bastardo
Eric Cartman
Mindy Smelkinson

there were loads more but i can't remember them right now...

He was a great authour, too.

Not as crowd-pleasing perhaps, but there's a statue in Madison Square in New York of a man named Roscoe Conkling.

-- jess

Oh, and my middle school band director was named Rufus Long.

Went to school with a girl who's last name was Sexe (p. "sexy") She was, too.

Geoffrey Stuart Cannon is such a bizarre formal name sometimes I can't really believe it's mine (heh "feeling slightly disconnected from one's own name c/d")

RAGGETT: "Tell me where's your fancy bread.
I need it for me, and I'm called Ned."

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany

Seconding Fletrjet on both the name and his writing.

Working at a university as I do, I've come across many a mysteriously cool name. Current favorites, with slight non-google alterations (as these are folks I am currently having to bill for late books): the very Thai (I believe) Nar1n Charanvattank1t, the quite Scottish yet somehow naughty 1an Mu1r Duckles and the prime winner, someone I can only guess is from an Arabic/Dutch family of some sort, Azareen Vandervl1et Oloom1.

Also, I saw a guy named John Hancock, which is not all that unusual, but I wonder if he would make his signature an exact forgery of the founding father of the same name.

At work today the person who I was given as a sample that would show a particular system error was Mr Doh. I like to imagine that to say his name correctly you have to slap your forehead.

i loved that thread, largely because spectra got so into it! :)

Mr Dickie & Miss K Titmus

It makes more of a regular f sound since a single f sounds more like a v.

So ff is a letter in its own right, after f and before g and ng, which follows g.

Ok. Apologies for the flippant tone.

(But privately I do kinda sorta want to believe that hobbits and leprechauns walk among us.)

No worries. I believe Welsh was one of the languages Tolkien was inspired by when he came up with Elvish.

Okay so for some reason I was googling former Vice President Daniel Tompkins.*

Found this wikigem:

Mangle Minthorne, an assistant alderman of New York City. The couple had eight children, including Arietta Minthorn Tompkins (born July 31, 1800), who married a son of Smith Thompson in 1818, and (Mangle) Minthorne Tompkins (December)

*= Probably because Christmas is coming and Daniel D. Tompkins is mentioned in "Miracle in 34th Street," which is one of the very few Christmas movies that I find even tolerable.

Okay sorry for the digression but seriously: Mangle Minthorne.

Mangle. Minthorne.

Of the New York Minthornes.

Not to be confused with Mangle Minthorne Tompkins, who was a completely different New York politician.

Gay Wimp

Kansas State Census, 1915

— Actual Names (@ActualNames1) November 23, 2023

abysmal real names

...is that mint/horne or minth/orne?

Cuthbert Girdlestone

R4ndy M4ss4gee

Chiquita Seaborne

Altany Craik

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/13/labour-councillor-altany-craik-quits-selection-race-after-concerns-over-sexy-satanic-novels

Ulva Pippy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_MacDonald_(actor)

Marcel Peeper

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NagAAOSwC9hcSv~~/s-l1200.webp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Onions

I may have mentioned that I have a friend whose name is S e r e n e T i c k l e. I only just now learned that she's from P o u l t o n le F y l d e, which just makes it better.

Bailey Zappe

Cherokee Pilkington

Enjoyed watching Thelonius Aasgard playing alongside Becket Godo for Wigan the other week.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEQBpldXgAAWEBo?format=jpg&name=small

Zé_Turbo

Wa-Ho-Thuk

Avalon Fast
Kansas Bowling

Two women filmmakers

Today I learned that Mark Meadows has a lawyer named George J. Terwilliger III.

Richard Sheridan Patrick Michael Aloysius Franklin Bowling

one of the developers of human in-vitro fertilisation was called Patrick Steptoe - a name I thought was a fictional creation by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson until today!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steptoe_and_Son

Guy Numbers

Apparently there is a TN House Rep named Monty Fritts, that's pretty good. But I had an Uber driver over the weekend named Artiston Leatherbury. That rules.

F@lon Hard3n

weaver & textile historian Rabbit Goody

is this thread deindexed lol

I'm sure Rabbit would be delighted to discover people think they have a great name.

Scan Tester

Oh it’s a nickname. Bah.

Surprised Dick Butkus has yet to come up.

Primbrock Skiggs, soul singer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2SN6m8q-w

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Earthy

Rosy Saxifrage...

heard this on the radio this morning and figured it was a person's name but alas...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjkkm4re518o

This might be a stretch but I had an interview with someone with an email that started goates.

Isl4m B0rk0wsk1

https://www.emeline.com.au/dr-ion-pop

Bollock Trotsky

United States Census, 1920

— Actual Names (@ActualNames1) July 7, 2024

“In the Winton Domesday, there are a number of people with either just the name Bollock or with ‘bollock’ in their surname. There's an Alfred Toad Bollock, for example.

“But the worst name I found is someone called Godwin Clawcunt.”

Dr. Judson Lovingood of NASA

Josh Hutcherson was in the Hunger Games films. His mother? Michelle Fightmaster:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3322397/

Hattie Weiner rip

xp there's an actor named E.R. Fightmaster (i know them from the TV show Shrill). maybe they're related?

Ginger Stache

https://gingerlstache.com/

Well, apparently it's an English version of Fechtmeister, which is German for fightmaster, specifically fencing. Fencing was taught at a fechtschule. This man, Friedrich August Wilhelm Ludwig Roux, was a top fechtmeister:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Friedrich_August_Wilhelm_Ludwig_Roux.jpg

Which raises the question of whether any top fightmasters would have been called Fechtmeister. It's like how Les Paul isn't called Les Electric Guitar, because the electric guitar hadn't been invented when Les Paul was christened.

Or how J Robert Oppenheimer wasn't called J Robert Atom Bomb. Etc.