# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![JWT\_Kottekoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@JWT\_Kottekoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JWT_Kottekoe)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/41 "2016-03-26T03:29:39Z")
I always liked [Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus). If you had a name like that you’d probably also want to shorten it to something like Paracelsus. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/42 "2016-03-26T03:56:32Z")
Anyone from the Fucko family. > **[Fučko last name - Fučko family - MyHeritage](https://lastnames.myheritage.com/last-name/fu%C4%8Dko)** > > Fučko genealogy and family history facts. Find information about the Fučko family, see the geographical distribution of the Fučko last name. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/43 "2016-03-26T04:42:39Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Anybody else remember [Cardinal Sin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Sin) of the Philippines? Speaking of the Philippines, a company I once worked for listed one **Manuel Pagan-Colon** in its directory of employees. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/44 "2016-03-26T04:49:34Z")
> [@glee](#): > > 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. Yep, dude makes my former coworker with the 9-word name sound downright homey (that’s 3-word firstname, 3-word paternal lastname, 3-word maternal lastname). Another good one: the recently-deceased Duchess of Alba was known as Cayetana de Alba, but her full name was María del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart Silva. People always got confused trying to figure out which part was which (the paternal lastname is Fitz-James Stuart). One of my classmates was known as Merche, a common nick for (María de las) Mercedes. Her full baptismal name was María de las Mercedes, Victoria de los Ángeles - the comma is part of the name. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/45 "2016-03-26T04:51:41Z")
Speaking as a database administrator… AAARRGGHH! ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/46 "2016-03-26T05:46:45Z")
Years ago my mother had a pal named Voda Clapsaddle. And I found a distant cousin named Bluebell Memorial Butcher. ---
**Author:** ![Blackstock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@Blackstock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackstock)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/47 "2016-03-26T06:47:55Z")
By all means, Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein. Not only is he Heinrich, or Friedrich, or Karl. Hell, not only is vom Stein, but he is vom AND zum Stein for chrissake. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/48 "2016-03-26T09:34:01Z")
Former Germany striker [Stefan Kuntz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Kuntz) as general manager of Kaiserslautern, signed both Danny Fuchs and Florian Dick . ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/49 "2016-03-26T09:49:07Z")
In fiction, Major Major Major. In real life, Rose Mary Echo Silver Dollar Honeymoon Tabor. (Rosemary may be one word, but that’s still a lotta names!) ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/50 "2016-03-26T10:18:31Z")
One-time employee of a US railroad, listed in directory of such folk: Kennebunk Doodlesquidley. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/51 "2016-03-26T10:48:37Z")
Kennesaw Mountain Landis is a pretty good one. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/52 "2016-03-26T18:40:27Z")
> [@glee](#): > > 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. > [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > No poems about him are there? Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache, that’s my name too! Whenever we go out, the people always shout “Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache!” DA DA DA DA DA DA! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/53 "2016-03-26T19:32:49Z")
Nobody could have made up this story about a real life woman named [Daisy Cowit](http://www.recordonline.com/article/20140612/NEWS/406120323). People still don’t believe me when I tell them about it, and they crack up when they realize it’s true. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/54 "2016-03-26T20:44:58Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Here in New York there was a well-known TV weatherman named **Storm Field** (yes that is his real name!) Named (presumably) by his father Dr. Frank Field, an even better-known TV weatherman. My nominations are [Ima Hogg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima_Hogg), the First Lady of Texas, and [Fonda Dicks](https://twitter.com/tomarnold/status/572203959458381824), a phenomenal Iowa girls’ basketball player in the 1970s\*. \*she was a legendary high scorer whose name often appeared in the sports pages of the Des Moines Register. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/55 "2016-03-26T21:55:46Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Nobody could have made up this story about a real life woman named [Daisy Cowit](http://www.recordonline.com/article/20140612/NEWS/406120323). People still don’t believe me when I tell them about it, and they crack up when they realize it’s true. “She declined to speak to a reporter, except to correct the pronunciation of her name: “Coe-it,” she said.” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/56 "2016-03-26T23:00:11Z")
Lazar Wolf from _Fiddler on the Roof._ ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/57 "2016-03-26T23:41:56Z")
Lieutenant General Sir Manley Power ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/58 "2016-03-27T00:09:41Z")
A pair of kindergarteners, best pals yet, my son teaches: Johnny Vegas and Sedarius Washington. If this pair doesn’t have a TV or movie deal by age 7 just on the strength of those names, I’ll be disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![funky\_little\_lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@funky\_little\_lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funky_little_lee)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/59 "2016-03-27T00:23:06Z")
I went to school with two sisters named Dietra and Phaedra Boots. I always thought stripping or porn would be in their future, but alas, I don’t know what became of them. Under the category of name change, I nominate NBA player Lloyd Free, who changed his first name to World B. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/60 "2016-03-27T01:20:46Z")
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