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

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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).

I’ve always loved Mark Lamarr’s name - even though it’s a simple name it just flows off of the tongue.

Also another newsreader, Riz Lateef.

My favourites have to be some of the Marvel character names though. Stan Lee does have a thing about alliteration, doesn’t he!

Bruce Banner
Peter Parker
Sue Storm
Reed Richards
John Jonah Jameson Jr.

Jonnie Peacock the sprinter.

Has anyone mentioned Tokyo Sexwhale?

Yaya Toure, (footballer) just rolls off the tongue.

His siblings are called Kolo, Ibrahim and Aicha, I like his parents style.

My father ( many years ago ) met a chap at the golf club at the time who was called Friday Godknows - just fabulous.

Rasmus Quist - Danish rower but sounds like a wizard

@notpennysboat I quite often get that 'Barack Obama' song stuck in my head, and go around singing it for days!

My DM has a friend called Beena Loch.

Many years ago, I taught a fabulous mature student in her 80s, who was called Gertrude Fear. She was quite a formidable character on the surface but absolutely lovely underneath and her name has always stuck with me.

Brian Hanrahan, just rolls of the tongue.
Swoosie Kurtz is fabulous and her real name.

Billie Holiday

While working at a school I met a girl called Willow Digweed and a boy named Hugo Smellie - I just love these names!

Stirling Moss

Oscar De La Hoya

Oh, poor Hugo Smellie! Can you imagine having to go through life with a surname like that?

I love this thread and many many of the names on it but I'm a little surprised amid the BBC flurry of names that Petroc Trelawny hasn't made an appearance.

I've always adored rolling that name around my mouth when I say it and it's certainly memorable.

BelMcEnd Emerald Fennell's father is a jeweller I think.

As if anyone on here could handle a name like Zsa Zsa gabor!

Be lucky to manage Mrs. Rabbit

Magnus Magnusson

Yum

My Dad volunteered at a local museum and their vintage fashion consultant was a lady called Notty Hornblower.

I once worked with a Miss Vane-Tempest.

I read an interview with Idris Elba where he said his real name is Idrissa, but at his school in London 'that just was not going to happen'

I'm so happy to hear there's at least one toddler Isambard out there! It's a wonderful name and I thought it was lost.

The name Keir is hot as fuck. I've a small crush on Keir Starmer and suspect that it's 99% due to his name.

I think Madison Keys (tennis player) is lovely. I like the rhythm.

Also Lucy Lawless. I'm so envious that Lawless isn't my surname. I'd be about four hundred times cooler and more fearsome.

Skylucy, you mentioned someone called Montserrat, which has reminded me of Montserrat Caballe - lovely name and a magnificent singer.

John Batman (founder of Melbourne, Australia, which he originally called "Batmania").

Another vote for Parthenope Nightingale. What a fabulous name!

Sorry, with correct spelling and relevant accents Montserrat Caballé