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!
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.
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.
Sabine Strohem, from the Griffin and Sabine books by Nick Bantock.
I love that name, Sabine.
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.
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.
lieu, it’s Engelbert. 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.
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.
The star of the new hit, Lost - Evangeline Lilly
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.
Gwen Stefani, exotic but pronouncable.
Johnny Damon, because it smacks of Billy Badass.
I love the name “Lolita Davidovich.” My hat’s off to this spunky gal for using her real name.
Ooo…just remembered another one: Former They Eat Their Own guitarist Shark Darkwater.
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?
Learned Hand.
Yakima Canutt aka Yakima Canute
Some random ones from seventeenth-century England:
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.)
Cincinnatti Reds outfielder Adam Dunn hits quite a few home runs. Every time he does, fans say, “Adam Dunn it again!”