# People whose names you like **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 7, 2005, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328 "2005-03-07T06:46:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/21 "2005-03-07T15:02:25Z")
I met a guy name \*\*Jersey \*\* recently. Jerz. I thought that was pretty cool. Even though it’s a bit cow-esque. Still cool though. I agree with OP Hilary Swank. It’s cool and it suits her too. She is very swank! ---
**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:** [March 7, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/22 "2005-03-07T15:02:27Z")
Roger Mycock Roger Bumpass is the voice for Squidward, so I haven’t decided if his name is a stage name or a real name. but it is great! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/23 "2005-03-07T15:05:57Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Roger Mycock > > Roger Bumpass is the voice for Squidward, so I haven’t decided if his name is a stage name or a real name. but it is great! Heh. I made up the name Roger Roundley for a character in a script idea I have. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/24 "2005-03-07T16:38:52Z")
My best friend from college is named Varuni, for the Hindu goddess of wine. Madisyn, MacKayla, and Tiffani can’t say they were named for a goddess. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/25 "2005-03-07T16:53:38Z")
[Increase Mather](http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/ASA_INC.HTM). ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/26 "2005-03-07T17:25:54Z")
Sabine Strohem, from the Griffin and Sabine books by Nick Bantock. I love that name, Sabine. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/27 "2005-03-07T17:35:51Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > I went through Basic with the guy with the Coolest Name In The World: Malachi J. Blade. Malachi J. Blade? Malachi J. Blade! Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. Malachi J. Blade. Every time I say it aloud, it gets _cooler_ and _awesomer_. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/28 "2005-03-07T18:07:30Z")
I’m not sure if I like **Benecio del Toro** because it’s a cool name or because I like his acting. Maybe it’s both. Englebert Humperdink. It’s so awful it’s come around full circle to actually being cool. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/29 "2005-03-07T19:01:33Z")
**lieu** , it’s _Eng **el** bert_. You don’t want **deeward** coming around to kick your ass. I just remembered a great name I made up. It’s truly the greatest name ever, and I will share it with you now: Astorn Jabooby Mustafucter Please get my permission before using this name for your children. It’s my responsibility to decide if they’re worthy of it or not. ---
**Author:** ![Thirty-Nine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@Thirty-Nine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thirty-Nine)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/30 "2005-03-07T19:19:06Z")
Trip Hawkins, founder of EA Games There’s also a character in the Virgin Suicides called Trip Fontaine, which is even cooler. Yeah, I like the name Trip, despite all it’s eerie sixties connotations. Lucy Lui A lot of Anglo/Oriental fusions work really well. Johnny Wu from Kill Bill, anyone? Anyone with the last name Moriarty is instantly cool. Ellie Elder is the only noteworthy combination I can think of with my own last name, but I’d never have the nerve to burden a kid with that. But, in summary, it’s hard to beat Malachi J. Blade. Jesus may want to consider that for his second coming. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/31 "2005-03-07T19:23:48Z")
The star of the new hit, Lost - Evangeline Lilly ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/32 "2005-03-07T19:24:47Z")
Camille Paglia Just say it a few times - how could you not fall in love with a woman named Camille Paglia? The fact that the real Camille Paglia is a twat and a half has to be forgotten or the magic evaporates. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/33 "2005-03-07T19:55:11Z")
Gwen Stefani, exotic but pronouncable. Johnny Damon, because it smacks of Billy Badass. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/34 "2005-03-07T20:04:49Z")
I love the name “Lolita Davidovich.” My hat’s off to this spunky gal for using her real name. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/35 "2005-03-07T20:23:28Z")
Ooo…just remembered another one: Former _They Eat Their Own_ guitarist [Shark Darkwater](http://www.pricetool.com/content_116747767428). ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/36 "2005-03-07T20:46:27Z")
I don’t think I can name any movies in which Tuesday Weld appeared, but I’ve always thought she has a terrific name. One of my colleagues has the surname of Risk, which I think is hilarious for a financial journalist. And from baseball, who could forget Kenesaw Mountain Landis or Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish? ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/37 "2005-03-07T21:00:47Z")
Learned Hand. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/38 "2005-03-07T21:45:23Z")
[Yakima Canutt](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134831/) aka Yakima Canute ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/39 "2005-03-07T22:38:45Z")
Some random ones from seventeenth-century England: [Praise-God Barebones](http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/701.php). Arthur Dent, Puritan and author of _The Plain Man’s Pathway to Heaven_, which was a bestseller in Shakespeare’s day. (Possibly the best name-and-title combo ever.) Butshead Gorges, a cousin of Sir Walter Raleigh who accompanied him on an expedition to Guiana. (No doubt because he wanted to get as far away from the English-speaking world as possible.) ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/40 "2005-03-07T22:45:50Z")
Cincinnatti Reds outfielder Adam Dunn hits quite a few home runs. Every time he does, fans say, “Adam Dunn it again!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328.md?page=3)