# Got any good "old people" names? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 30, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860 "2010-04-30T13:59:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/21 "2010-04-30T14:51:43Z")
My brother and his ex had a Basset named Foberty. No telling whose name they borrowed, but it fit that dog to a T. Names already mentioned that I would pick for a sad-faced, ear-dragging dog would include: Claude Leonard (but spelled Lynyrd) Silas Vernon Eugene and from my list Virgil. There’s no telling how often I will say (under my breath) to some shithook in traffic, “Goddammit! Move it, Virgil!” ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/22 "2010-04-30T14:54:42Z")
Benjamin, Ezekiel, Seth, Mordecai. Prudence, Tatiana, Josephine, Cleopatra. Triskadecamus. ---
**Author:** ![cdsilv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cdsilv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cdsilv)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/23 "2010-04-30T14:55:08Z")
Rumpole. Rumpleforeskin…😉 Havelock Mustrum ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/24 "2010-04-30T15:01:14Z")
Let’s not forget Ethel and Willard and, courtesy of my aunts who both died in their late 90s, Audra and Maybelle and their cousin Myra. ETA: Oops, I see someone already mentioned Ethel. How 'bout I substitute it with Delmar - another cousin. Why yes, we were farm people, why do you ask? ---
**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:** [April 30, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/25 "2010-04-30T15:02:45Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Lucille is a great name for a Basset Hound. Also Clem and Wendell. Hey! Leave my mother out of this! I had a great uncle Halleck. Other ancestors were Harriet, Nellie, Elona, Calvin, Jehiel, Delilah & Sampson (yes, really: they were siblings), Benoni, Thankful, Patience, Ezekial, Hezekiah, Levi, Wesley. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/26 "2010-04-30T15:06:57Z")
We’re dogsitting a Boxer named Gracie. The jokes are too obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/27 "2010-04-30T15:07:16Z")
Moses ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/28 "2010-04-30T15:12:44Z")
**Chef** , your mom’s name is Clem? Short for Clementine? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/29 "2010-04-30T15:23:55Z")
I don’t know … the name Virgil is kind of growing on me as creeping-up cool. And I have a 2-year-old nephew named Elias! Maybe I’m secretly an old person. :eek: My contributions, from my own family: Dorothy (my middle name, actually!) Victor Imogene Flossie Madge Bert Eleanor Bruce Some other goodies: Granville Maureen Cyril Cecil Blanche ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/30 "2010-04-30T15:25:35Z")
The old lady who lived across from me when I was a child (Winifred) had a dog named Mitzi. My Pop (Ellis) had a dog named Bunty. So… old people names that old people named their own dogs. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/31 "2010-04-30T15:30:26Z")
Seconding Ethel and adding a Beulah. Wilbur or Walter for a male. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/32 "2010-04-30T15:35:37Z")
It’s amazing to me how many of these names are family names of mine and classmates and such. I’m wondering if some antithetical names might be fun to provide (not really a hijack but more of an extension of the OP’s efforts), just for contrast as names that just don’t seem to fit a Basset: Fifi Lance Bullet Max Tina Magnum Geraldo Kyser Nestor Justin Danny God, I could spend the rest of the day at this! ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/33 "2010-04-30T15:43:32Z")
Thinking back to my grandparent’s and great-grandparent’s generation: - Flossie - Shirley - Muriel - Lenore - Florence - Minerva ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/34 "2010-04-30T15:46:50Z")
I just thought of an AWESOME name for a female basset: **Mavis**. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/35 "2010-04-30T16:08:07Z")
Peggy ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/36 "2010-04-30T16:14:29Z")
I’m a fan of “crusty old prospector” names. Hezekiah Mordecai Aloysius Zebediah etc. ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/37 "2010-04-30T16:33:50Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Try fiddling with [this](http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#ms=false&exact=false). > > According to it, the popularity for Myrtle peaked in the 1890’s. Also Myron, Myrtice, and Myrna. Hmm, apparently I have given both my children old people names. Both peaked before the chart. Sorry kids. I consider them “classic” not old. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/38 "2010-04-30T16:35:48Z")
Waldo or Waldorf ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/39 "2010-04-30T16:56:02Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I just thought of an AWESOME name for a female basset: **Mavis**. That opens up some possibilities for a litter of them: Elvis Purvis Davis Reavis Jarvis ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860/40 "2010-04-30T16:59:30Z")
I used to babysit for some people with a Basset named Flounder. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-old-people-names/537860.md?page=3)