It’s a reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Same-sex marriage also opens up new possibilities, like if Summer Glau married Dana Wynter.
But Dana Glau isn’t a funny name!
(/s)
“Wanda Hughes Kissinger now” was always a favorite. “Nguyen” offers many possibilities. Then there was that notorious Cuban/Algonquin courtesan, Havana Manitou.
That’s a good one, but it can be improved.
If Wanda Hughes joined a polycule with Hungarian serial killer Bela Kiss and Hong Kong serial killer Charles Ng and New Zealand scholar Andrew Jur and American conman Clifford Noe, they’d be known collectively as Wanda Hughes-Kiss-Ng-Gerr-Noe.
Hyphenated names also create dirty possibilities. If musician Roxanne Seeman married Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, she’d be Roxanne Wales-Seeman. And her middle name is Joy.
Or if American writers Barbara Seaman and Nancy Holder got married, they would be the oxymoronic Seaman-Holders.
Not sure if this is a cliff we should jump off of.
Doesn’t work. As my wife points out, the last name is pronounced “No-E.”
I know, I know. But I couldn’t find a single name that sounded more like Now.
Those who are bothered can strip it off and go with Kiss-Ng-Jur but stick with now.
Okay, I can see that, but again only if “Woden” is mispronounced.
I learned this on a YouTube video: In The Wizard of Oz, Glinda asked Dorothy if she brought her broomstick with her. When she answers no, Glinda tells her she’ll have to walk. Dorothy literally brought her whole house to Oz, are we do believe that Auntie Em didn’t have a broom in the house?
I think Dorothy can be forgiven for not thinking about the broom closet – she’d just been through a traumatic tornado that involved her in involuntary witchslaughter. But I think she probably understood that Glinda was asking about a riding broom, like a Nimbus 2000, and she certainly didn’t have one of those.
Auntie Em was sweeping the porch when the tornado hit, and took it down in the cellar with her. 
I can’t remember when the Harry Potter books were written, but ‘2000’ used to be an indicator of the future; the best, most advanced of anything. I suspect that’s what Rowling intended.
The time is coming (if we’re not there already) when it will seem quaint and old fashioned.
Or in a British accent.
Remember, in the movie (but not in the novel) Oz is just a dream. Nothing has to be realistic about what happens. The house is blown into the air and then set back down without breaking into pieces. Not having a broom is minor in comparison.
Rebecca Ferguson is a great British actress. Today I saw a picture of her and here was the thought process.
Wait! Did she play Jenny Lind in The Greatest Showman?
But that actress was Swedish
In fact, I was bothered by the fact that the actress playing Lind spoke Swedish but they never had her speak Swedish in the film.
HOLY $#!^ Rebecca Ferguson is Swedish.
first book published 1997, but set several years earlier in 1991.
It’s not only here, we’ve already passed it. Conan O’Brien started doing his “In the Year 2000” sketches in 1994, where the joke was that they were still treating 2000 as some distant future, instead of something that was right around the corner.
A.K.A. “the 21st century”
2001: A Space Odyssey movie released 1968¹
Death Race 2000 1975 film
2000 AD British comic magazine first published in 1977
Cherry 2000 movie released 1987
What others?
ETA: ¹Apparently Clarke was a stickler for centuries beginning in the year ending in 01.
… and continued them after 2000, which I found hilarious.
And still going, with the same title.