Regardless of what you think of the people themselves, what are some names that are really cool? Friends, family, celebrities, or fictional characters (although they have an unfair advantage) are all okay.
Hilary Swank - I mean, come on. Her last name is “Swank” and that means she must be, well, swanky.
Robbie McCracken - Some kid that goes to my school. Just say it out loud. Robbie McCracken!
I knew a Rabbi Brazen in college. I just love the fact that she was a woman, a rabbi and had a last name with such cool meaning.
In fourth grade I had a bad teacher named Mrs. Bane. One day when I was a little older I looked up the word bane in the dictionary (after my mother called someone the bane of her existence) and realized just appropriate her name had been.
A gorgeous girl with beautiful black hair came into the gas station where my friend worked and bought cigarettes - when she brought out her ID, my friend and I fell in love with her name: Piper Silverthorn. (this was all pre-“Charmed”, of course, ugh).
I recently noticed South African cricketer Ashwell Prince and I have always thought that Prince is a good surname and I have never heard of another Ashwell. It just sounds good.
There was a baseball player once named Ted Cox. He played for the Red Sox. I always liked that.
A long time ago, I had a job typing names into a database. The names were of people from all over the world who were enrolling to study English in America. Whenever I came across a particularly interesting name, I wrote it down to share with my wife and friends. The ones I still remember are: