Light-hearted: Don't you just LOVE some names?

[MadamesNet]

Taking a break from work...how cool is 'Kashuo Ishiguro' especially with 'Sir' Prefix

Always thought 'Isambard Kingdom Brunel' was quite something. Almost as if there will be no room big enough to fit his entire persona. Why hasn't this name ever appeared in the baby names section, they're always looking for something unique

What other names do you know that just make you sit back and think WOW! (in a good way not in a 'Chardonaye' kind of way ifyswim).

Stoffel van Doorn is the best F1 driver name ever!

I also recall a gynaecologist (not mine) who also had an unusual name - but I can't remember it right now.
Thanks for the vague news!

Hans Zimmer is a good one I think. And Ennio Morricone has quite a dash to it.

when husband was doing research for private investigator came across the name
Dragan Bubalo
there are many across the world, the feminine is
Dragana
local weatherman ferdinand zogbaum-makes me smile
local shop owner justin case

Victorian names were great - DH found twins in his family tree called Pax Victorius and Victorius Pax (round about the end of the Crimean or Boer War I think)

notacooldad. I'll put you out of your misery - and mine - because I've been spending the last 24 hours trying to remember his name!

His real name, under which he practised as a doctor, is a fairly normal name. But he had another career as a Country & Western musician and his stage name was/is Hank Wangford.

This all came to light, for me, when one of my male colleagues told me (donkey's year's ago now) that his DW's gynaecologist was called Hank Wangford. Male colleague was a big perturbed!

Tokyo Sexwale. Best name ever.

Benjamin zephania all round good guy
Usain bolt runner
Bobby diamond kid from college
Inigo montoya you killed my father prepare to die
Zac effron actor
Whoopy goldburg actor
Penelope pitstop

Yeah Tokyo wins the thread.

Orla kiely

the name of BBC weatherman Tomasz Schafernaker fits perfectly with ‘Walk the Dinosaur’ by Was not Was.

viz: boom-boom, Tomasz-Schafernaker-boom

you’re welcome.

I can’t believe nobody has said Romilly Weeks. Fab name! Is she related to Honeysuckle?

I also love Miriam Margolyes and Katarina Johnson-Thompson

I've always had a fondness for Randy Vanwarmer.

How about Zinedine Zidane? I don't like football but do love his name!

Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty was an English composer and organist, usually just known as Oliphant Chuckerbutty.

DS2 has a soft toy elephant who wears very smart stripy dungarees. His name is Oliphant Chuckerbutty in honour of his ele/oliphantine namesake. He even has pockets in his dungarees for storing butties for chucking.

DS1 had a cardiologist for a bit called Elliot Shinebourne. Quite honestly one of the kindest, most brilliant people I've ever met - and sounds like he should have a starring role in a Thomas Hardy novel!

Theophilus P. Wildebeest

I was at school on the early 60s with a girl called Melodie Jane McAlmont Woods. Still lodged in my brain.
And later a Glenda Bedworthy, who sounds like a Carry On character.

Darcey Bussell. I read an interview once with another ballerina, Deborah Bull, who said she thought Darcey was better known or more successful (can’t remember now) because she had the nicer name.

Sounds a bit like sour grapes from Deborah Bull to me

I think Bussell is a bit of an odd name (although Darcey is pretty). It brings to mind someone bustling about, Les Dawson style, with a uniboob.

Not rtft yet but there’s a US actress with a name I have fallen in love with
Yara Shahidi

I wasn’t expecting this thread to go for so long but feeling quite pleased with myself, smug even . I don’t want this thread to be lost for all those preggie ladies who might ‘yoonique’ name hunting, am I right in thinking I saw a message sometime ago saying ‘Chat’ will no longer be deleted after 90days?

MadamesNet, this message from MNHQ at the top of Chat at the moment :

"Threads started in this topic after 9th November 2018 will no longer be removed after 90 days."

So this thread will disappear after 90 days. Perhaps ask it to be moved elsewhere? MN Classics? Other subjects? But probably not Baby Names!!

Brother and sister violinists: Yehudi and Hephzibah Menuhin. Imagine calling them in for their dinner.

Sloisa- Thanks I knew I saw it somewhere.

Do people want it moved to Classics?

I once knew a Dougie Glen. From Scotland. I don't think I could think of a more scottish sounding name if I tried .