# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/61 "2005-03-08T14:02:34Z")
I recently did some work for a New Jersey attorney with the unforgetable name of _Elton John Bozanian_. And there’s always _John Wayne Bobbitt_. ---
**Author:** ![MrO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@MrO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrO)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/62 "2005-03-08T14:40:59Z")
My favorite names are always four-syllable given names followed by single-syllable family names. Thelonious Monk. Indiana Jones. Condoleeza Rice. Ebeneezer Scrooge. For some reason these names sound very grown-up to me. I can’t imagine anyone with a name like these ever being a child, though I did see Indiana Jones as a Boy Scout in that one movie. These sound like the names of fun, exciting people–you know, like jazz pianists, or archeologist/adventurers, or, well, whoever those other people are. ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/63 "2005-03-08T14:54:25Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > Cuthbert J. Twillie > Larson E. Whipsnade > T. Frothingill Bellows > Eustace P. McGargle > Augustus Q. Winterbottom > J. Effingham Bellweather > Lionel Q. Deveraux > Wolf J. Flywheel > J. Cheever Loophole > Rufus T. Firefly These sound like some of the names I get in the “From” field of my daily dose of spam mails. Now I know where the spammers get them from! ---
**Author:** ![MrFantsyPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/64 "2005-03-08T15:22:30Z")
Cool name of a guy I worked with: Leif Storm not so cool name of someone else I worked with: Vessna Djockich ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/65 "2005-03-08T15:36:28Z")
American Idol contestant Bo Bice. Baseball players Ugueth Urtain Urbina, Rafael Betancourt, Wily Mo Pena, and Coco Crisp. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/66 "2005-03-08T15:43:56Z")
Yaphet Kotto Bo Diddly Rip Torn ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/67 "2005-03-08T20:46:46Z")
I’m also a big fan of Engelbert Humperdink (name-wise). My brother and step-sister both want to name their son Ansel; it’s a race to see who gets to use it first. I keep trying to convince them that it wouldn’t be the end of the world for cousins to share the same (cool) name, but to no avail. I have a huge crush on one of my friends, in part because of his name: Laurence Alexander Green. Gaaa, so sexy! ---
**Author:** ![flood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/68 "2005-03-08T20:57:44Z")
Chijoke Onyenegecha, cornerback Oklahoma ---
**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 8, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/69 "2005-03-08T21:13:09Z")
I went to elementary school with a girl named Eulalia Iphigenia Zickefoose. I felt a bit sorry for Lally (as she preferred to be called). But at least she wasn’t likely to be mistaken for anyone else during roll-call. I always rather liked sharpshooter Annie Oakley’s real name: Phoebe Ann Mozee. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/70 "2005-03-09T01:17:30Z")
Harry Alonzo Longabaugh - The Sundance Kid ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/71 "2005-03-09T07:49:32Z")
My favourites are the last two presidents of Indonesia: Megawati Sukarnoputri and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/72 "2005-03-09T08:15:47Z")
I spoke to someone today with the name Amanda Bonzo. Okay, maybe that’s not exactly what we’re looking for… Other sports people: Joaquin Hawkins (almost as cool as Joaquin Phoenix, a.k.a. “Walking Phoenix”) Sterling Marlin Another former Duke player: Trajan Langdon Over the last few days at work, I’ve called all 100 United States Senators. I’ve decided the one with the best name is Maine’s Olympia Snowe. Snowe is a cool last name, and Olympia- well, you get the mountain theme in there, and it’s a stately name anyway, so you get this picturesque, very regal vibe. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/73 "2005-03-09T08:24:41Z")
Oh, I forgot one of my favorite NFL players - best name in the league by far if you ask me - Samari Rolle. And Boston College safety Jazzmen Williams. I guess his parents didn’t want him to be “Louis Coltrane Williams,” so they named him after jazzmen in general? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/74 "2005-03-09T09:04:37Z")
Ex-Colleague - \*Kevin Ingledew \* the dodgy first name is more than compensated for by the rurality of the family name. 2 rugby players who may or may not like their parents but their names are sooo cool … _Austin Healey_ of Leicester and England, he’s fast but [not as fast as this !](http://www.healey.org/index.shtml) _Rémy Martin_ of Stade Français and France, tasty but [not as tasty as this !](http://www.remy.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/75 "2005-03-10T00:39:51Z")
Here’s another one, not quite as good as Malachi J. Blade, but still pretty good. Another kid at school: Zachariah X. Archie. ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/76 "2005-03-10T00:45:41Z")
I like **Alicia Silverstone**. It sounds…_twinkly_ like a star. What?? ---
**Author:** ![MrFantsyPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/77 "2005-03-10T04:02:25Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#): > > I like **Alicia Silverstone**. It sounds…_twinkly_ like a star. oooh, I spent a couple of hours with her once. nice enough, a bit ditsy, but god forbid you pronounce her name “aleesha”. Very touchy about that. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/78 "2005-03-10T04:42:25Z")
Rush Limbaugh. Lousy person, great name. ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/79 "2005-03-10T14:58:20Z")
> [@MrFantsyPants](#): > > oooh, I spent a couple of hours with her once. nice enough, a bit ditsy, but god forbid you pronounce her name “aleesha”. Very touchy about that. :smack: Oh, how do you pronounce it, then??? BTW, it’s so cool you got to hang out with her. ---
**Author:** ![MrFantsyPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328/80 "2005-03-10T15:42:53Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#): > > :smack: > Oh, how do you pronounce it, then??? BTW, it’s so cool you got to hang out with her. al-iss-ee-ah [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-whose-names-you-like/293328.md?page=5)