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

So apparently Belinda Carlisle's replacement as drummer for the Germs in 1977 was named Donna Rhia.

Stage name. Recanted!

"Duke political-science professor D. Sunshine Hillygus, one of the study’s authors, emphasized ..."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-the-depressing-reason-why-russian-trolls-may-have-failed-at-their-mission-to-divide-america-2019-11-26?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=new%20study%20of%20Russian%20efforts&utm_campaign=dukedailydec2

Lowmoan Spectacular

couple of great names on the current memphis tigers men's basketball roster:

Boogie Ellis
Precious Achiuwa

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

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tulikukka-de-fresnes

"Tulikukka" literally means "fireflower"... I've never heard of such a name before, presumably her parents were hippies or something, or she's changed it as an adult.

Hmm, apparently there are 30 or so people in Finland with that name, so I guess it's not unique.

Not a name per se but three cheers for the 'first initial of first name + last name' email address convention at this one dude's place of work that resulted in me receiving correspondence from a 'CHUDSON'.

(Although it still doesn't unseat the champion from my last place of work, where our 'first four letters of last name + first initial of first name' username convention surely hung like an albatross around poor P@trick FukuShima's neck.)

Vesto Slipher

very Metal gear Solid name

One of the Great Great Real Names:

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

Great real dead names: Just saw Hetty Swales on a grave.

Septimus Neverson

Beckham Wheeler-Greenall
New Zealand
Full name Beckham Reef Wheeler-Greenall

was a toss-up between this thread and 'abysmal real names' tbh but let's be kind to beckham reef wheeler-greenall

Severin Hacker

Barby Barbara (only became this nane after marriage)

Tuna Altınel

can't believe nobody's mentioned her yet, but.

dua lipa.

it's hard for me to think that's something other than "Two Lips" in bad Italian

"Two lips in bad Italian". Sounds like a lyric.

xp that was my first impression as well.

I find Albanian absolutely fascinating, not only because it's a language isolate within the Indo-European family, but also because there's an unproven theory according to which Dacian, the vanished language spoken by the ancient inhabitants of modern-day Romania (pre-Roman conquest), may have belonged to the same branch as proto-Albanian. In any case, there is a substratum of Romanian words of uncertain origin that are more or less the same in Albanian.

Two lips in bad Italian
A macabre battalion
An attic tatterdemalion

The Addam's family

lol

i was thinking Nomeansno

Only so many songs can be sung
With two lips in bad It-al-ian

also xp pom you're going to send me off on an all night weirdities of language hunt, this happened with Finnish about a year ago

https://i.imgur.com/SeTgHcg.png

"firearms examiner"

previously "Gun Looker"

“Bikini Inspector”

https://i.imgur.com/s2KgNR3.png

Man calling the roll musta been hell on Seed's teacher's

i think i would lose it if someone walked in and introduced themselves as Dr Sithole, and that's not even taking Seedwell into account

Hello there. I am Dr Asthwipe

Sithole is a good Zulu name, hence Ndabaningi Sithole.

Also the family name of ILM favourite Sun-El Musician.
And yeah, it’s not English and isn’t pronounced as if it were. It’s three syllables for starters.

#AmaSithole

Maybe that was Trump's intention, referring to some African nations as "Sithole countries" to acknowledge Zulu heritage?

first mentioned eleven years ago on this thread, dick pound returns

Dick Pound pic.twitter.com/QGFZyU39CR

— Names for Bands (@NamesForBands) February 25, 2020

dr will welfare, lead consultant in health protection, public health england north west

Primitivo Lázaro

Speed Weed

Pinky Chambers

whoops sorry, it's even better - Pinki Chambers

Find me a better name

Dare you pic.twitter.com/PV6MkhX9SQ

— Eric Edholm (@Eric_Edholm) March 28, 2020

Strong competitor, certainly.

Baseball player Zebulon Vermillion

whoa

def my fave discovery while clicking around in Out Of The Park Baseball 21. Some other quality names I stumbled upon:

Kungkuan Giljegijaw (has a cool story to his name too)
Cash Case (baseball player or game show?)
Jhostynxon Garcia (Directed by Ron Howard)
Jeans Garcia (relationship unclear)

jean garcia is 👌🏻

The NOTY Committee has met. The names are spectacular. Give us a few weeks to find the right home.

— Name of the Year (@NOTYtourney) March 27, 2020

they once accepted one of my suggestions