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).

Basilisk

Yes - sadly he doesn't live up to his thrilling moniker.

But what were his parents thinking?

What's wrong with "Spartacus Adonis"?

Cressida Dick
Sir Jock Stirrup
Fatima Manji

Taulupe Faletau - Welsh international rugby player.

Gordon Greenidge, West Indian cricketer
Sam Shepard - actor/playwright
Gus Grissom - astronaut.
Suzy Quattro

Gigi Hadid. She was never going to be average looking, was she? Why are so many fabulously named people so good looking? Is it the confidence of good genes?

It helps to have a cool surname. I'm Irish, and whilst there are some cool Irish surnames, many are just not compatible with anything too out-there. Not that it stops some people.

Shia LaBoeuf is a pretty cool one, I always think.

Going back to earlier in the thread, I had a great aunt Helia and still have a second cousin Helia. It is a lovely name but hasn’t been used in the family since the 30s.

Sacha Distel the French singer, he was as gorgeous as his name.

The actress Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny)

Francesco da Mosto - Italian architect, author, historian, film maker and television presenter.

Francesco da Mosto I love him and his Venetian house.

I loved his series too, derxa. Especially the final one where we got to see his house and the reunion with his DW, DC and DM - which I think he wasn't expecting at that point. And I loved his flamboyant singing as he was driving around in his Alfa Romeo!

Whenever we hear Nina Nannar we sing the Bananarama song

Nina Nannar, hey hey hey, goodbye ....

I have no idea where this came from, but in the night I woke up and thought "Oh yes! There was that other fantastic name - Ptolemy Spice!"

Xenoplilius Lovegood! I know it’s a character but such a good name.

MadamesNet, it’s interesting that you mentioned Ravi Holy and Naga Munchetty in the same post, as she interviewed him once. Ravi is hilarious but Naga didn’t get any of his jokes 😁.

m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=6oqHKktL9Jo

Actor Tygh Runyan. 😍

I knew a Jasmine Sultana.

An old Viking warlord

Thorkels Sprakaleg

I just love that name!

The lady who runs Snarl- the animal charity dealing with the cat killings..

Boudicca Rising.

I once came across someone called Rusty Justiss. Always made me smile when I heard his name.

Lots of cool names in Formula 1.

Michael Schumacher
Rubens Barichelllo
Zsolt Baumgartner
Heinz-Harald Frentzen
Kimi Raikkonen
Roland Ratzenberger
Max Verstappen

Amazing Victorian era woman explorer, mountaineer, writer and women’s rights campaigner:
Fanny Bullock Workman

You wouldn't mess with Fanny Bullock Workman would you. Sounds like the sort of no nonsense woman that Gets Things Done.

Oh, a family friend has a daughter who is getting married soon, and she just has to change her surname. She'll become Hollie Hailstone!

Ballet's always had plenty of good names:

George Balanchine (BFFs with Igor Stravinsky)
Rupert Pennefather
Dusty Button
Misty Copeland
Natalia Osipova
Vaslav Nijinsky
Bronislava Nijinska
Marie Taglioni
Bennet Gartside
Ninette de Valois (born Edris Stannus, who I think still sounds like a force to be reckoned with...)
Nehemiah Kish

@TheMystical thank you so much for sharing that. Where should i start? i didn't get half his jokes either, 'Pastor Ravi Holy'?Madonna? cringeworthy doesn't begin to describe it. Methinks he should just stick to preaching the plain simple gospel.