# Cool names for average folks. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 28, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003 "2005-11-28T03:35:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/101 "2005-12-31T23:14:41Z")
I worked with a young man by the name of Kavon Rad. He was a :wally but his name was the coolest I had ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/102 "2006-01-01T00:47:10Z")
Friend of mine had a dog he named “Y D” One day I was with him at the animal hospital the vet asked what the name of his dog was and my friend said, “Y D”, but the vet wrote down “Whitey”. (Confusion over the dog’s name happened all the time. The dog was white.) My friend said, "No,no! Its the initials Y and D. The vet asked what they stood for and my friend told him, “Young Dummy”. (Which is really what the stand for). Coolest name for a dog I have ever heard of. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/103 "2006-01-01T01:11:39Z")
There is or was an Air Force meteorologist (who would provide weather forecasts for Space Shuttle launches and the like) named [Captain Tom Strange](http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1988-9/1988-09-28-CBS-2.html). ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/104 "2006-01-01T01:21:56Z")
I used to crack up when I saw RAdm. **John Stufflebeem** delivering Defense Department press briefings. ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/105 "2006-01-01T20:02:22Z")
There were some people in a local election, and their ticket was “Singer, Malone, and Dancer.” And then there was the Green Party candidate for Senate: Earl Grey. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/106 "2006-01-01T22:54:26Z")
I took a class with a girl named Fielding Jezreel. Fielding Jezreel! How great is that? ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/107 "2006-01-01T22:59:03Z")
My sister-in-law’s maiden name was Pitt. Our family name is Bull. Suffice to say, they decided not to double-barrel their names… ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/108 "2006-01-02T01:54:04Z")
There was a radio announcer in San Diego whose real name was Mike Boss. I knew him in his earlier days. When he was playing music he called himself “The Bossman.” ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/109 "2006-01-02T02:37:19Z")
I know a fair number or people with cool names, but I’m not sure I feel comfortable posting them online, especially without their permission. I did have a class with Marques Tuiasosopo, a football player for UW at the time (now I think he is with the Raiders). ---
**Author:** ![Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8797f3/32.png) [@Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ins_Outs_What-have-yous)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/110 "2006-01-02T04:03:33Z")
**Phil LeMunyan** - my great-grandfather (sounds sorta like “filet mignon” if pronounced correctly) **Superman** - the real first name given to a guy I met in college. He goes by that name as well. (and I don’t blame him 🙂 ) **Candy Bar** - someone my mother knows. **Lolly Pop** - friend of a friend **Hogjaw Twaddle** - name I once saw in the phone book. However, the name has not appeared in recent years. **Golden Kuntz** - this name is still curre the phonebook in my hometown. I hope that surname is pronounced like “Koontz.” **Rusty Boner** - father of a guy who attended my high school. Perhaps this name is on the other end of the spectrum. **Fuqan Yang** - college professor. I mentioned him in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=348519&page=1) (post #6) ---
**Author:** ![coop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@coop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coop)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/111 "2006-01-02T05:56:04Z")
Went to school in year 7 with a girl named **Lescelle Dippelle**. She pronounced her last name to rhyme with “Nipple” 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/112 "2006-01-02T07:50:01Z")
Maori names are generally cool but I knew a kid a few years ago called Takiwairua Taurima, it just rolled off the tongue so well. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/113 "2006-01-02T13:10:50Z")
I knew a young Army captain with the name John Carter. A name like that does not happen by accident. I still think it is way cool. Of course “James Bond” the character was named after James Bond the man, the James Autobahn of the Caribbean. Ian Flemming thought it was the most bland name possible. The real James Bond loved it. He spent the rest of his life going “Bond, James Bond” to hotel clerks. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/114 "2006-01-02T14:31:30Z")
> [@ArchitectChore](#): > > **Rusty Boner** - father of a guy who attended my high school. Perhaps this name is on the other end of the spectrum. I just had a recovered memory of a girl I knew in school last-named **Fangboner**! She was one of those gals who had a face like a bootheel but a dynamite wacky sense of humor and was pretty popular. I asked her how to pronounce it. She said, “There’s no good way. Just like it sounds.” ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/115 "2006-01-02T14:32:32Z")
…er, “looks.” :smack: ---
**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:** [January 2, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/116 "2006-01-02T20:05:26Z")
I’ve known a Polly Patch and a Guiselle Crow. The latter went by Jelly Crow. Also knew a Jack Horner once upon a time. ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/117 "2006-01-02T20:38:20Z")
I went to high school with a girl named Mary Christmas. We hung around in different circles, so I never actually met her (it was a pretty big school). I think she had a brother named Noel, but I could be mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![TygerDralion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@TygerDralion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TygerDralion)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/118 "2006-01-02T21:20:34Z")
The boyfriend’s dad’s first name is “Stevenson.” He goes by “Steve.” Somehow the boyfriend’s middle name (that is also a family name) is “Clyde.” ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/119 "2006-01-02T21:20:45Z")
I had a neighbor named Vagina Hickey. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/120 "2006-01-02T22:45:22Z")
I saw the name “William Swallow”. Wonder if he goes by Will or Willy? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003.md?page=7)