# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/61 "2016-03-27T03:09:09Z")
Wolf Blitzer has been mentioned. Another of my favorites is [Vermont Connecticut Royster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_C._Royster), longtime editor of _The Wall Street Journal_. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/62 "2016-03-27T03:13:59Z")
> [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](#): > > 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. Your Johnny Vegas isn’t going to have a career under that name in the UK… ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/63 "2016-03-28T18:05:27Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Speaking as a database administrator… > > AAARRGGHH! You rang, Sir? ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/64 "2016-03-29T07:25:44Z")
Weber State University basketball team had two players on the early 70’s named Willie Sojourner and Justus Thigpen. My favorite sports name is former Ohio Sate University running back Hiawatha Francisco Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/65 "2016-03-29T13:32:12Z")
Hercules Mulligan was an early New York friend of Alexander Hamilton. That name was one reason that Lin-Manuel Miranda\* really\* wanted him in his play… ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/66 "2016-03-29T19:29:36Z")
Daryl Dragon…aka The Captain. [https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=captain+and+tenille&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002](https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=captain+and+tenille&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002) ---
**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 29, 2016, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/67 "2016-03-29T22:20:14Z")
We could mine the history of major league baseball for fabulous names. One of the best recent ones was [Wonderful Terrific Monds III](http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Wonderful_Monds) of the New Haven Ravens. Alas, he never made the majors. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/68 "2016-03-29T22:27:21Z")
Given a recent thread and me doing a “clean this shit up” weekend… I found Richard Fenymans second book and read the first 60 pages or so… One name mentioned by Richard was Nick Metropolis. If that isn’t some comic book super hero name I don’t know what is. ---
**Author:** ![SantaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@SantaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SantaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/69 "2016-03-29T22:36:23Z")
Back in the day I worked graveyard shift at a hotline and we passed the time finding odd names in the phone book (they were on paper at the time). We found not one, but two "Wilbur J Zott"s I imagined someone calling “May I speak to Mr Zott?” “Which Mr Zott?” “Mr Wilbur Zott.” “Which Mr Wilbur Zott?” “Mr Wilbur J Zott.” “_ **Which** _ Mr Wilbur J Zott?” ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/70 "2016-03-29T22:50:13Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Given a recent thread and me doing a “clean this shit up” weekend… I found Richard Fenymans second book and read the first 60 pages or so… > > One name mentioned by Richard was Nick Metropolis. > > If that isn’t some comic book super hero name I don’t know what is. A woman who was a doctor back in the 1910s had the even better superhero name of Lunette Powers. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/71 "2016-03-30T03:36:01Z")
Precious Blueeyes Jones ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083/72 "2016-03-30T03:41:25Z")
Cleanng out an old file box at work, I found a copy of a letter from the company to Mike Venus and Dick Dood. I have it pinned to the wall. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-name-ever/750083.md?page=3)