# Best name EVER **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 25, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083 "2016-03-25T02:06:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.Pu-du-he-pa-as)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/1 "2016-03-25T02:06:12Z")
Do you ever find yourself wondering, late at night, whilst the world sleeps, what is truly the greatest name of any soul in the history of the world? Wonder no longer. Actually, I’m going to make you wait for it a little bit. First, let me announce the runners-up: [Vratislav Eusebius von Pernstein](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vratislav_Eusebius_von_Pernstein) and [Wolfram Martini](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wolfram-martini-ba46b38a). But now, the winner is… (drumroll) [Dodo zu Innhausen und Knyphausen!!!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_zu_Innhausen_und_Knyphausen) :eek: All right. Anyone know of a better name than that? Got any other remarkable names to share? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/2 "2016-03-25T02:11:06Z")
I don’t think anything can beat four-time World’s Strongest Man champion [Magnús Ver Magnússon.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magn%C3%BAs_Ver_Magn%C3%BAsson) ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/3 "2016-03-25T02:12:11Z")
Football player Sonny Sixkiller. Local realtor Husk Penzo. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/4 "2016-03-25T02:15:43Z")
Max Power ---
**Author:** ![Parenchyma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Parenchyma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parenchyma)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/5 "2016-03-25T02:19:16Z")
Van Lingle Mungo ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/6 "2016-03-25T02:25:08Z")
Astrida Penis (Pronounced “astride a penis”) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/7 "2016-03-25T04:34:24Z")
Madagascar’s most popular singer for the past 30 years, Josée Helihanta Ramahavalisoa, doesn’t like her real name, and prefers her stage name “Poopy”. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/8 "2016-03-25T05:30:18Z")
I’d have to go with someone who was at my college: Thankful Vanderstar. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/9 "2016-03-25T05:45:26Z")
I always go with the regular go-to: NFL player Fair Hooker. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/10 "2016-03-25T05:58:20Z")
Baldassare Galuppi. Fly Fornication and Be Upright Before the Lord Jones. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/11 "2016-03-25T08:58:30Z")
These are all good efforts. However they don’t compare to: Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache. Thank you. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/12 "2016-03-25T09:06:50Z")
No poems about him are there? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/13 "2016-03-25T09:16:12Z")
I can think of a couple of Bond Girls: Pussy Galore - Honor Blackman - [https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSZeiiX4x833q2Or5qEXAilCCjZjlRT0sKWSjDYY9Y5\_irnWxMagg](https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSZeiiX4x833q2Or5qEXAilCCjZjlRT0sKWSjDYY9Y5_irnWxMagg) Honey Rider - Ursula Andress - [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Ursula\_Andress\_in\_Dr.\_No.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Ursula_Andress_in_Dr._No.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/14 "2016-03-25T09:41:30Z")
What about Hugh Jorgensen? ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/15 "2016-03-25T12:50:05Z")
According to Cracked, the [Nine Manliest Names in the World](http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_the-9-manliest-names-in-world.html) (some of which have been mentioned upthread) are: **9. Lance Armstrong** **8. Powers Boothe** **7. Max Planck** **6. Commander Flex Plexico** **5. Dr. Duncan Steel** **4. Stirling Mortlock** **3. Magnus Ver Magnusson** **2. Dick Pound** \*\*1. Staff Sgt. Max Fightmaster \*\*Hard to argue with any of these, and they’re all real. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/16 "2016-03-25T12:57:53Z")
Storm Killer I have met this man. ---
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/17 "2016-03-25T13:02:49Z")
Batman bin Suparman, who ironically turned out to be a [villain](http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2013/11/11/batman_indonesian_man_with_superhero_name_runs_afoul_of_the_law.html). ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/18 "2016-03-25T13:04:18Z")
The inmate who beat up Jared Fogle last week is named Stephen Nigg. ---
**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/19 "2016-03-25T13:57:46Z")
There’s an elephant in Zambia named [Wonky Tusk](http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/elephants-in-the-room/0/3400293). When I first read about her, I briefly contemplated changing my own name to Wonky Tusk. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/20 "2016-03-25T14:12:59Z")
In real life, there was a basketball player named God Shammgod. In fiction, the best I’ve seen is Hieronymus Thistlewaite by David Weber. In non-human, the “Boaty McBoatface” campaign for the RN vessel is in the running. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083.md?page=2)