# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/141 "2010-10-27T20:29:03Z")
**Wilma Mankiller** wiki: The family surname, Mankiller, is a traditional Cherokee military rank and is Asgaya-dihi in Cherokee,[5] which is alternatively spelled Outacity[6] or Outacite. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/142 "2010-10-27T21:25:55Z")
I used to know a woman named Twyly Skye Starr. One of my grand nieces’ first two names are Amberlynn Jayde. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/143 "2010-10-27T21:56:45Z")
At work there’s a guy named Ricardo Cassanova. You have to be pretty smooth to pull off a name like that. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/144 "2010-10-27T22:32:41Z")
One of my most favoritest names, which I gleaned from a Name thread here, is \*\* Fanny Ramsbottom\*\* ---
**Author:** ![TheFifthYear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@TheFifthYear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFifthYear)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/145 "2010-10-27T23:32:22Z")
I went to school with a guy named Troy Steele. That’s a badass name. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/146 "2010-10-28T13:03:38Z")
There was a nerdy kid in my highschool who went by ‘Jot’, his real first and middle names were James Otamus Thrasher. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/147 "2010-10-28T16:51:37Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I used to know a woman named Twyly Skye Starr. One of my grand nieces’ first two names are Amberlynn Jayde. That should have been “Twyla”. :smack: Jazz singer [Blossom Dearie.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blossom_Dearie) ---
**Author:** ![Box\_A\_Rox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47774/32.png) [@Box\_A\_Rox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Box_A_Rox)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003/148 "2010-10-28T21:08:24Z")
There is a character in the Joseph Heller book “Catch 22” who is first, middle and last name is Major. His dad filled out the name on his birth certificate and told the mom that his name was “Caleb”, thinking it would be a very funny joke! Of course… when he entered the Army in WW2, he was quickly promoted to the rank of “Major”. Yes… Major Major Major Major. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-names-for-average-folks/333003.md?page=7)