Truly awesome names

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I have just come across someone who proudly bears the name of Buckmaster de Wolf. It is the awesomest name I have ever heard! Does anyone have any similar awesome names?

And a work colleague had a boss called Ashley Jordan Diaper. Yes really.

Brother and sister Hereward and Elfrida (won't put surname)

IncidentalAnarchist - I also went to school with Tarrian Garlick! Devon, it was...

Also, university with Titus Boggan.

Other fantastic ones - dp's medieval history lecturer - Thorlac Turville-Petrie. Fabulous!

I shortly knew a guy whose first name was Dangerfield/Daingerfield (not sure about the spelling). He was called by the full name, too - no nicknames.

The Puritans had some SPLENDID names, like good old Praise-God Barebone (from whom the Barebones Parliament gets its name). One of his sons got the catchy "If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned" but for some reason chose to go by Nicolas instead... Am forced to wonder if Damned Barebone was designated the black sheep at birth...

Some other quite... special... ones:

• Fear-not Helly
• Continent Walker
• Humiliation Hynde
• No-merit Vynall
• Sorry-for-sin Coupard
• Kill-sin Pimple

In fairness to the Puritans & their bonkers naming tastes, they did also make names like Verity & Hope popular. It wasn't all Ashes, Silence, Anger & Abstinence...

I was at school with sisters who were both N.E. Hough; and we somehow, despite being a big comprehensive, had two Persephones & an Estacia.

At university my admissions tutor rejoiced in the name of Lisa Bodfish & I encountered a Dr Foster (never asked if he's visited Gloucester); Mr Mandelbrote; Dr Richard Rex, whose email address starts rawr; then-Dr-now-Prof Ulinka Rublack; and Prof Hans van de Ven. The Faculty has since gained a Dr Andrew Marks Spencer, sadly Professor Badger has retired. Oh & for any rowers, having a Dr Goldie was always quite amusing...

I've met more than one nurse Nightingale & had an orthopaedic surgeon called Miss Back (but she specialised in knees). One of my friends had an anaesthetist called Dr Payne, which she said didn't fill her with confidence ... There's an incredibly named Elfy Chevretton in the ENT department: I was sorting through some paperwork the other day & found a letter from her. Can't for the life of me remember her though. Assume that she used Elvin Powers to wipe my memory... My granny's cataract surgery was done by a Mr Zuberbuhler - a name that is both musical but could also be used, perhaps, as a pseudoswear in company of children etc?

Am sure I've come across some other remarkable appellations... Brownies (not in my Unit) called Bummer (not pronounced as English people would) & Cinderella spring to mind...

I follow a blogger in the US whose children are called Archer Sage, Fable Luella, and twins Boheme Shalom and Reverie Lux. Just the most gorgeous names!

I used to go to school with a Serendipity, known as Dippy, and at college there was a girl called Scheherazade.

Daffodil Marriage has come up twice, surely there can't be two?!

I'm a copper and there is a bloke in firearms called PC Studd and he totally is

Daffodil Marriage

At least it wasn't Lavender Marriage!!

LaMere I was also at uni with Titus Boggin or Boggan!

My science teacher was Mrs Shockbolt. We had family friends whose surname was Dick, and yes they called their son Richard!

I knew a little girl who was called Aurora Roarson, but sadly she had problems pronouncing her 'r's.....

When Spangler, an American librarian we're working with at the moment.

Correction, it's Wren Spangler!

There are quite a few Turville-Petries in the palaeontology field, LaMere - - wonder if it's a family connection?

I met Shauna Shoop a couple of weeks ago. I had the theme music in my head all the time I was talking to her.

There is a doctor at a hospital near me called Mehboob Ali, and my friend once had a letter from a breast cancer specialist called Dr Boobis.

It's actually a great name but every time I hear the name Ralph, I snigger in a very juvenile way

On 'National Signing Day' (it's the day [back home in the States] when student athletes sign their national letters of intent for their respective colleges) this year, one of the football players garnered a lot of attention for his name: Kobe Buffalomeat

He is of Native American heritage, and that's the origin of his last name.

And here he is

Another football player I recall from national signing day was Wrangler Haresnape.

Merlin Hollywood.
What a fantastic name.

My friend went to school with Andrew and Peter Ness; yup, A Ness and P Ness

There's a Midlands reporter called Nina Nannar...I like that.

My mum swears she once interviewed a bloke called Fuk Yu. My mum is quite straight laced and not the type to make shit like this up. Poor bloke if it's true...

I used to know a Rosemary Balls, usually called Rosie.

I was at school with a Derryen Flook

DP used to correspond with a lady called Fanny Rubin in work.

She worked in one of the international offices. Always giggled when I heard her name

This thread is really making me laugh... Andy & Mandy Spong?! 😂

Someone I know is called Robin Ramkissoon. Love it!

My old schoolfriend is Dr Love.

My friend used to worked with a Julie Wooley.

ZebraOwl, I think we may have an educational establishment in common! In my day there was a staircase with name boards for Dr Friend and Dr Guest next to each other, which always tickled me.

A very senior person in the corporate world that I inhabit is called Warwick Hunt. And I once encountered an Innocence Fulgent at a conference.