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

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MadamesNet · 19/09/2018 18:59

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

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 Wink

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).

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MadamesNet · 19/09/2018 21:53

Love 'Nicolaus Copernicus' and yes to Haile Gebrselassie.

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PsammeadPaintedTheLion · 19/09/2018 21:53

I love loads of these. Adding Benjamin Netanyahu to the mix, which I always hear in Billy Connelly‘s voice.

Tamiah · 19/09/2018 21:54

Helia Ebrahimi.

Feels sad about my exceptionally boring name...

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AnElderlyLadyOfMediumHeight · 19/09/2018 21:54

There used to be a woman on BBC2 in the 90s called Aminatta Forna. Very cool.

TheNavigator · 19/09/2018 21:54

I've thought of another (love this thread) William Topaz McGonagell, Scotland's famously rubbish bard. It is the 'Topaz' that makes it cool.

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MadamesNet · 19/09/2018 21:54

Well if you're looking for a unique name this is the thread to come to Smile.

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barneymcgroo · 19/09/2018 21:55

@PuddleglumtheMarshWiggle I heard a think on the radio about Evelyn Waugh and his wife - they were apparently known as Evelyn and Shevelyn. I so hope it's true!

barneymcgroo · 19/09/2018 21:58

I listen to a lot of podcasts, and love listening out for names in the credits. Favourites include:

Phoebe Wang
Mikke Meek
Harry Huggins

And my all-time best:

Whitney Dangerfield

RJnomore1 · 19/09/2018 21:58

Barbara Broccoli s father was Tubby Broccoli

ThisIsNotARealAvo · 19/09/2018 21:58

Thomas Schaffernaker does the weather sometimes and I love his name.

OhTinky · 19/09/2018 22:02

As a child I loved the name Floella Benjamin, still do!

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MadamesNet · 19/09/2018 22:38

Is anybody else looking up all these wonderful people as they go along? I’ve learnt quite in the last few hrs.

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Elderflower14 · 19/09/2018 22:41

RJCubby not Tubby!

PomBearWithoutHerOFRS · 19/09/2018 22:42

Does anyone remember the weather girl Wincey Willis? She was at school with my mam and her name was Winsome Dimmock - is that not fab? Grin

SerenDippitty · 19/09/2018 22:45

Always loved the name Reginald Bosanquet. Newsreader from the 70s.

There was also a Cuban 400m runner called Alberto Juantorena. Thought that was beautiful.

okilydokily · 19/09/2018 22:56

Diablo Cody, who wrote the film Juno.

Dafspunk · 19/09/2018 22:57

I’ve always loved Olympic skier Picabo (pronounced peek-a-boo) Street.

Alltheprettyseahorses · 19/09/2018 23:08

I don't know if she was a presenter or a guest but I remember seeing a woman called Paula Sunshine on the telly years ago and her name made me smile.

vampirethriller · 19/09/2018 23:15

Parthenope Nightingale, sister of Florence.

ColinsVeryJolly · 19/09/2018 23:22

I always liked the name of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

NymanPerkins · 19/09/2018 23:22

When I worked in university admin we had students called Violeta da Marenga and Misty Temple

TheLastMermaid · 19/09/2018 23:25

Violeta and Misty sound like amateur sleuths in an old fashioned Whodunnit.

TheLastMermaid · 19/09/2018 23:26

by their full names, obviously.

DeusEx · 19/09/2018 23:26

I like Phil Jupitus - Phil is dull but that is a surname that conquers nations

DeusEx · 19/09/2018 23:27

Ooooh and Zinedine Zindane!