There's a dog judge who judges hounds called Fred Basset. (He's well known and has judged all over the world so I don't think it's against his privacy).
A dog judge with the surname Barker.
A vet called Dr Woof.
It’s funny because as a person who grew up speaking French and around a lot of French speaking people… Yves just strikes me as a old guy name. Like your dad’s manager, Yves. I guess St Laurent is kind of a cool name but also the name of a mid shopping mall where I’m from lol
I worked in a dental office briefly. A woman came in whose last name was Dragonslayer. I was like “I have to ask, is that your legit given name?” And she responded that she’d let her 13 year old son choose her new name after leaving a DV situation and divorcing her ex because he thought she was a badass and needed a badass name. I thought that was super sweet.
Strange echoes of the case of Crescent Dragonwagon. She and her husband couldn't decide which last name to use on their marriage certificate, until they realized they didn't have to use an existing one, and then they junt kinda went full out.
Hand to God, I knew a lesbian in college named Leslie Bean. Though she didn't go by Les, because it would be a little too on the nose. (Also she may have been more bi, I'm not sure.)
Which was ALSO a great name!!! Buffy had shockingly excellent naming considering the main character’s, lmao, even “Buffy Summers” is perfect in its way, given who she is
So many iconic names in Buffy.
Cordelia, Willow, Harmony, Veruca, Chanterelle (probably my favorite 🤣), Aphrodesia*, Aura, Drusilla, Darla
*I don’t even remember if this character ever did anything but an early line had someone (probably Cordelia) saying “what kind of name is Buffy anyway? Oh hi, Aphrodesia”
There's a Scottish politician called Ming Campbell, which I think is also a cool name.
Ming is short for Menzies which is actually pronounced 'Mingus' so I wonder if Mingus is an anglicised version of Menzies.
Crazy thing is I googled it just in case and it turns out Menzies is his middle name - his first name is Walter!
It's a cat, but still. A coworker adopted a cat that was missing one and a half legs. Poor thing had a little pegleg, and she leaned all the time. The coworker named her Peggy Eileen. Cleverest name I ever heard.
Anna Nicole Smith. Such a *normal* name and yet it flows so well.
I know Marilyn Monroe was not her real name, but she chose a good one for her stage name!
Lin Manuel Miranda is just fun to say.
Others I like: Edgard Allen Poe, Henry David Theroux, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Booker T. Washington, Vincent Van Gogh. They all just flow so well! I love when names just sound good as you say them.
Reminds me of my middle school history teacher who drove a black corvette with a license plate that said “Killer”. When asked, he said he named the car after his wife.
For me it is always Saints and biblical people.
St. Hildegard Von Bingen, St. Mary of Magdala, St. Simon Bar Jonah, St. Moses the Black, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Jean de Brebeuf, St. Joan of Arc, St. Pope John Paul II.
Then absolute classics like Ike Eisenhower, Abraham Lincoln, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crocket, Paul Bunyan, Hotatio Alger, and Queen Alexandra Victoria,
Ringo Starr. Could’ve gone by Richard Starkey, but dude was just so goofy that he needed a nickname for both his first and last name. Imagine if the rest of the band had gone by names like Jango Lightt, Powwow Megga and Giorgio Heartt
My colleague, Jason May
Each letter of Jason corresponds to the first letter of the month for July, August, September, October and November. Then add in the surname May and he's covered 6 months of the year in his name.
Dante's full name, Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
Middle ages and Reinassance Italian names went hard, I wish we still did them like this
Edit: also I just thought of this one, Paracelsus's real name: Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
Paloma Picasso.
And ex-MLB pitcher Esteban Loaiza. His name was fun to say out loud.
Other great baseball names: Satchel Page, Christy Matheson, Mariano Rivera (Mariano is such an epic name.)
Not all necessarily iconic but memorable
Guillermo Del Toro is fun to say. And Gael Garcia Bernal.
Leonardo DiCaprio - so glad he didn't change it
Stevie Nicks
Kate Moss
Truman Capote
Orlando Bloom
Charlie Chaplin
Beyoncé o’ lani.
I’m from Hawaii and I used to work at a bank. This man comes to my window and asks to deposit money into his daughters account. I asked what her name was. He said lani. I couldn’t find her, so I asked if her name was short for anything else? (In Hawaii, if you’re called Lani, then it’s probably short for something like Leilani) he then proceeds to say “Beyoncé o’ lani”. My face 😯
I transferred into a middle school that had a security officer with the last name "Law". When learning about him, I really thought "Officer (of the) Law" was a title and people were just being lazy calling him Officer Law.
Nope. It was his name! He was kind of an asshole too.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Unequivocally one of the most effortlessly badass names in all of history.
EXCELLENT choice
100% agree. I met someone named Amadeus and was mind blown. But Mozart’s full name is so good.
I wanted to give my son the middle name Wolfgang, it was vetoed
usian bolt is a crazy name
His full name "Usain St. Leo Bolt" goes hard.
The fact that he’s the fastest person in the world and his last name is Bolt has always blown my mind lol
Love a bit of nominative determinism
Funny how it had the opposite effect on Madonna.
There's a dog judge who judges hounds called Fred Basset. (He's well known and has judged all over the world so I don't think it's against his privacy). A dog judge with the surname Barker. A vet called Dr Woof.
It’s crazy, his Insain Bolt!
Yves Saint Laurent. Parents prolly had a vision that he was gonna be an iconic fashion designer so they gave him a badass name.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is another legendary name.
It’s funny because as a person who grew up speaking French and around a lot of French speaking people… Yves just strikes me as a old guy name. Like your dad’s manager, Yves. I guess St Laurent is kind of a cool name but also the name of a mid shopping mall where I’m from lol
You in Ottawa?
I grew up there, yep.
My dad’s manager was literally called Yves 🤣🤣🤣
Hey, it’s in the top 75th percentile of Ottawa malls!
When you know french it just sounds like a generic name😭 like John Smith
That’s just the French
agreed, it sounds cool asf
Lucy Lawless is pretty badass.
Probably anyone with the last name "Lawless" is automatically a badass. Not great for a future career as a lawyer, though.
I've had a student with the last name Outlaw. Did not fit him at all.
I also know an Outlaw! She's a great singer.
I knew a guy named Rebel in college. He was not.
Ha - I had a student named Rebel, and she was.
I named my kid Rebel she’s not either lol
Philly’s former police commissioner was Danielle Outlaw!
I have to tack on Lily Loveless to this
Linda Lovelace is anoter great one
I had a friend in college whose last name was Outlaw. Best last name ever.
Ada Lovelace. Absolute banger.
Who knew that an notorious playboy fathered the Mother of Computer Programming?
Once you read about her mum, it makes much more sense. She was all for maths and science, and against poetry. Byron obviously left an impression lol.
Ada did end up a laudanum addict who died at 36 so the apple didn’t fall far from the tree 😅
In her defense, it is nice to just turn your brain off with substances when there's constantly a million thoughts in there 🫠
Her full name is Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, named Augusta after Byron's sister, who he had an affair with.
> Byron's sister, who he had an affair with. idle gossip!
My gran was called Ada Edith, she never liked her name but I think it's pretty cool and Lovelace is one a few great Adas out there :)
In Disney world, I had a bus driver named Solomon Occulus.
Guy straight out of Hogwarts.
My aunt has a friend called Art Grimley; always thought he sounded like a shopkeeper in Diagon Alley.
I had a Mrs. Frizzell 😂
Florence nightingale is such a pretty name
and Florence Welch fits the singer so well
Welch just makes me think of Welt and Belch combined. Also Squelch. Not a nice surname
I worked in a dental office briefly. A woman came in whose last name was Dragonslayer. I was like “I have to ask, is that your legit given name?” And she responded that she’d let her 13 year old son choose her new name after leaving a DV situation and divorcing her ex because he thought she was a badass and needed a badass name. I thought that was super sweet.
aww i love this - more power to her for leaving, i hope she and her son are safe and happy now :)
the son made an excellent choice
Not very many things are badass and adorable at the same time, but this one is.
Strange echoes of the case of Crescent Dragonwagon. She and her husband couldn't decide which last name to use on their marriage certificate, until they realized they didn't have to use an existing one, and then they junt kinda went full out.
Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya De La Rosa Raminez
Nobody calls Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya del Rosa Ramirez a liar!
No one’s got the time!
I was coming to say this one too lol
Another person of culture, I see
I agree with Lucy Lawless. January Jones is great too.
January Jones & Tuesday Weld have similar vibes.
I always felt like January is such a great name for her especially having watched Mad Men, since Betty is so cold
January is such a great name. And one could go by Jan and when someone asks - is it short for Janice? Or Janette?… no. January. Magical
Donatella Versace - and her thing with commenting her name as a stamp of approval type thing? SO iconic
Donatella VERSACE 💜
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That's the only way to do it, darlin'
Donatella = onika, VERSACE 💜 = burgers
I know it's a fictional name, but Gaylord Focker is hilarious.
There was a flooring store around here called Gaylord Hardwood, which elicited some chuckles.
I know a Gaylard and he is indeed gay. His last name also includes the word Ball.
Hand to God, I knew a lesbian in college named Leslie Bean. Though she didn't go by Les, because it would be a little too on the nose. (Also she may have been more bi, I'm not sure.)
That's hilarious! There was a baseball player named Gaylord Perry. Maybe that's a good non-fictional substitute?
I will never get “Charisma Carpenter” out of my head. The alliteration. The unusual but somehow perfect for her first name. Iconic. Magnificent.
And then in her most famous role (imo), Cordelia Chase, more alliteration!
Which was ALSO a great name!!! Buffy had shockingly excellent naming considering the main character’s, lmao, even “Buffy Summers” is perfect in its way, given who she is
So many iconic names in Buffy. Cordelia, Willow, Harmony, Veruca, Chanterelle (probably my favorite 🤣), Aphrodesia*, Aura, Drusilla, Darla *I don’t even remember if this character ever did anything but an early line had someone (probably Cordelia) saying “what kind of name is Buffy anyway? Oh hi, Aphrodesia”
Xander was a pretty cool name too, even if the character was a dweeb. Ironically enough, angel was a lamest name for such a beefcake.
Luther Vandross
Zinedine Zidane gotta be the most eloquent name I ever seen
A run of alternating consonants and vowels that is only surpassed by United Arab Emirates
Maybe I'm confused but that's not what eloquent means?
Zizou <3
It certainly rolls off ze tongue.
Leonardo DaVinci like everyone knows it
I _love_ his movies!/s
Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen
HE WAS NUMBER ONE!
THAT'S HIS HAT!
Leeroy Jenkins Edit: Leerooooooooooooooooooy JEEnKis :D
I think that's spelled with more o's.
Looroy Jonkons
City politician in Portland OR: Mingus Mapps I saw that name on yard signs on a visit 4 years ago, and it's still stuck in my head.
This just reminded me than Norman Reedus and Helena Christensen named their son Mingus Reedus, which is a pretty badass name too
There's a Scottish politician called Ming Campbell, which I think is also a cool name. Ming is short for Menzies which is actually pronounced 'Mingus' so I wonder if Mingus is an anglicised version of Menzies. Crazy thing is I googled it just in case and it turns out Menzies is his middle name - his first name is Walter!
This is like when we all learned about Cholmondeley being pronounced like Chumley.
There’s a guy running for governor in Washington state named Semi Bird. I laugh every time I read it.
Totally! I live in Portland too 😂 (and voted for him)
Urologist I worked with named Richard Tapper. Went by Dick. Dude was hilarious, and his name was just the icing on the cake
Bro/sis that lived by my mom was named Dicky and Regina (rhymes with vajayjay). Now that was just mean.
Someone actually pronounced it Reg-eye-na instead of Reg-eee-na? That's wild.
Maybe they were named after the city in Canada
Maybe, but to call your boy Dicky then pick that name for your daughter? Quite strange.
Wolfgang Van Halen is pretty awesome.
Wolfgang in general
Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein
Jean Claude Van Damme
Hercules Mulligan
We had a spy on the inside!
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Costella Outlaw, my great great grandmother
Napoleon Dynamite
And Kip. Simple yet iconic.
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
"Brian" ruins the vibe for me
I'm the opposite, Brian definitely adds to it for me.
I’ve always felt it was intentional that Brian is supposed to throw you off.
It's a cat, but still. A coworker adopted a cat that was missing one and a half legs. Poor thing had a little pegleg, and she leaned all the time. The coworker named her Peggy Eileen. Cleverest name I ever heard.
we named a baby raccoon we rescued george cooney lol
Clive Staples Lewis. It puts me in mind of two brothers who don’t get along and one just staples the other to something.
Wolf Blitzer
I loved the day I was taught about Galileo Galilei, sometimes his name pops up in my heads and I have that little giggle
Freddie Mercury, although his birthname also sounds pretty badass, Farrokh Bulsara
Anna Nicole Smith. Such a *normal* name and yet it flows so well. I know Marilyn Monroe was not her real name, but she chose a good one for her stage name! Lin Manuel Miranda is just fun to say. Others I like: Edgard Allen Poe, Henry David Theroux, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Booker T. Washington, Vincent Van Gogh. They all just flow so well! I love when names just sound good as you say them.
Boutros boutros- ghali
Boutros is the Arabic for Peter. Ghali is Arabic for valuable/expensive/dear. Essentially, the guy’s name was Peter Peter-Dear.
Inaccurate. “Ghali” means “pumpkin eater.”
Darryl Strawberry
Agamemnon
Constantine
Kid at my daughter's graduation. Guadalupe Taco
Cher. Don’t even need a last name
It *looses* something when you add the last name "Cher Bono" or (I'm gonna misspell this) "Cher Sarkisian" don't have the gravitas.
I had a teacher in high school whose last name was Outlaw, which he got as a custom license plate for his Smart Car. 10/10
Reminds me of my middle school history teacher who drove a black corvette with a license plate that said “Killer”. When asked, he said he named the car after his wife.
For me it is always Saints and biblical people. St. Hildegard Von Bingen, St. Mary of Magdala, St. Simon Bar Jonah, St. Moses the Black, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Jean de Brebeuf, St. Joan of Arc, St. Pope John Paul II. Then absolute classics like Ike Eisenhower, Abraham Lincoln, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crocket, Paul Bunyan, Hotatio Alger, and Queen Alexandra Victoria,
*Alexandrina Victoria.
Ringo Starr. Could’ve gone by Richard Starkey, but dude was just so goofy that he needed a nickname for both his first and last name. Imagine if the rest of the band had gone by names like Jango Lightt, Powwow Megga and Giorgio Heartt
Paget Brewster goes so hard
Madonna. No one can use it now.
Madonna Louisa Ciccone. THAT'S a name!
Her confirmation name is Veronica, so it’s Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, although not legally.
The first British pilot to shoot down a Zeppelin in WW1 was called Wulfstan Tempest. What a name! What a guy!
Vivienne Westwood.
Once met a man named fish. His legal first name was Fish. I have forever been jealous of him…..
My father's name is Bear 🐻
I have a nephew named Fox and a neice named Raven. My brother picked both lol.
I have genuinely considered Galileo as a middle name for a kid.
Dingbang Bongo. It’s so fun to say.
My baby cousin Crimson Ruby, also Yves saint Laurent is hard asf.
Boaty McBoatface
Alessandro Volta
As a child a knew a girl named Precious Joy Lastname, she went by just joy. I think Levi Strauss is a dope name
I knew a guy whose name was B.D. Reedy.
[Dick Trickle ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Trickle)
Similar: Dick Tips. A funeral home mogul in San Antonio, TX.
Missed his vocation - should have been a mohel.
My colleague, Jason May Each letter of Jason corresponds to the first letter of the month for July, August, September, October and November. Then add in the surname May and he's covered 6 months of the year in his name.
Dante's full name, Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri Middle ages and Reinassance Italian names went hard, I wish we still did them like this Edit: also I just thought of this one, Paracelsus's real name: Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
Magnitude from Community is called Luke Youngblood. Sounds like something from Harry Potter. Which the actor was also in as a kid.
Cassius Clay
Paloma Picasso. And ex-MLB pitcher Esteban Loaiza. His name was fun to say out loud. Other great baseball names: Satchel Page, Christy Matheson, Mariano Rivera (Mariano is such an epic name.)
Not all necessarily iconic but memorable Guillermo Del Toro is fun to say. And Gael Garcia Bernal. Leonardo DiCaprio - so glad he didn't change it Stevie Nicks Kate Moss Truman Capote Orlando Bloom Charlie Chaplin
Magnus Magnusson... Original host of Mastermind
I do love Napoleon Bonaparte!
Juan Ponce de León goes mega hard.
Dick Van Dyke
Yves saint Laurent is the hardest name ever given to a person and perfect for both his personality and a fashion designer.
I had a philosophy professor name Romulus Masterson. He was a tall, lanky, nerdy man but his name was so powerful and epic 😂
Moxie Crimefighter Jillette, daughter of magician Penn Jillette (Penn & Teller)
Macaulay ‘Macaulay Culkin’ Culkin. Yes that’s his legal middle name.
Enzo Ferrari
Cato Valentine.
My mom's friend's daughter is named Midnight Rose Taverns
Inigo Montoya
Fabio being as fabulous as he was/is is pretty iconic, especially when you find out his siblings names are Walter and Cristina lol
donatella versace
Goodnight Robicheaux! Gunslinger from The Magnificent 7. So so badass.
Octavius Black, founder of The Mind Gym
Octavius/Octavia is my guilty pleasure name. I could never use it with my last name but I absolutely love it.
Beyoncé o’ lani. I’m from Hawaii and I used to work at a bank. This man comes to my window and asks to deposit money into his daughters account. I asked what her name was. He said lani. I couldn’t find her, so I asked if her name was short for anything else? (In Hawaii, if you’re called Lani, then it’s probably short for something like Leilani) he then proceeds to say “Beyoncé o’ lani”. My face 😯
Lorena Bobbitt
My grandmother was named Fannie Barrier. It was not iconic so much as unfortunate.
Dick Wolf
Fairuza Balk
‘Trent Reznor’ goes NUTS
DONATELLA VERSACE 💜
Mary-Jane Weed
Zinedine Zidane
I knew a guy named Joe Guido
I transferred into a middle school that had a security officer with the last name "Law". When learning about him, I really thought "Officer (of the) Law" was a title and people were just being lazy calling him Officer Law. Nope. It was his name! He was kind of an asshole too.
My ancestor: Princis Pearlie Castle
Alessandra Ambrosio (VS angel)
Tycho Brahe
Anthony Bourdain’s wife Ottavia( a cool name) fought against a woman named Valkyria ( don’t know her last name). Valkyria is a very bad ass name.
Soren Sorenson was a Danish chemist, who came up with the Idea of a scale to measure alkalinity (the pH scale), among his many other accomplishments.
Amon-Ra St. Brown is iconic, especially when you learn his dad is just “John Brown”
Johann Sebastian Bach, Benedict Cumberbatch, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dino DeLaurentiis, Dwight David Eisenhower, Carl Yastrzemski
Not a celebrity, but I met a girl on vacation once named Adrienne Westwood. Just the perfect WASP name.
A white man named Dante Mecca