Great Real Names

Yep, that's her.

Richard Lovelady

I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found (in alphabetical order): pic.twitter.com/Qj18jPELMI

— Isabella Rosner (@IsabellaRosner) May 16, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqY8YK_7pw

At work we have a new patient called Dudley Buttons

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51VNuwet7NL.jpg

Just got a work email from Sue LaGue.

Vinny Boombatz

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41-D6ScWh5L._SX373_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Aribusitamunoipirim Emmanuel "Aribim" Pepple

Sandra Cakebread

Chr1st1an T1ts , works in finance in Belgium

aldrich potgeiter . made the cut at the us open this weekend.

Kobe Bufkin just got drafted by the Atlanta Hawks

Roger Nicely is probably not that great a name, but my inner adolescent is amused.

Madison Marriage

I was recently in the Bahamas, flying into and out of Nassau. I am not sure you are all aware of this, but the airport there is named for the father of Bahamian independence: the honorable and most excellent Sir Lynden Pindling.

It's really quite difficult to be sad while saying the name "Lynden Pindling." Seriously, try it. I have lived a long time. Many tragedies have befallen me and my tribe. However, I have always been made happy while saying the words "snorkel" and "doily." To those, I add the name "Lynden Pindling."

Sure, being in the Bahamas is nice and all. But if the airport in Duluth or Buffalo or Kansas City were named after someone with a resplendent name like Lynden Pindling, I might reconsider those locales as vacation destinations.

^ great post

i've been thinking recently of Eldon Shamblin and Lowman Pauling, two guitarists i really like listening to and who both made important developments to the emergence of rock N roll. they both had great names.

For some reason I’ve begun receiving spam from the Epoch Times newspaper, edited-in-chief by Jasper Fakkert. My man is doing a great job.

Prosper Mérimée

Pete1an P0st
Ing Ing 0ng

Both in the space of 5 mins.

Jethro Wookey

Jade Ball

Speranza Scappucci

Chet Flippo

Helpys Feliz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacynta_Galabadaarachchi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqY8YK_7pw

Princess Cheese!

Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Sarzo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Futch

AKA people whose names sound like the b-sides to obscure British psychedelic singles ca. 1967/1968...

Arthur H. Peppercorn

Harry Buckoke

https://www.discogs.com/release/2111137-Dick-Hyman-Mary-Mayo-Moon-Gas

Alabama State Treasurer Young Boozer

https://1819news.com/news/item/birmingham-southern-state-treasurer-boozer-not-factually-accurate-on-30-million-state-loan-denial

Augustus Egg

Anemona Hartocollis

Robert Fripp's guitar tech Biff Blumfungagnge

Sorry, I misspelled that. It's actually Blumfumgagnge.

Nimrode Pantz

https://dcist.com/story/23/11/14/dc-march-support-israel-mall/

Okay so apparently "Fflyn" is like the actual name of a human person and not a Hobbit or Disney fairy or Vulcan or Narnian faun or whatever.

https://wapo.st/47kVYZx

I give up. I. Just. Give. Up. Carry on without me.

Ff- is a pretty standard way to begin a Welsh name.

It makes more of a regular f sound since a single f sounds more like a v.

So ff is a letter in its own right, after f and before g and ng, which follows g.

Ok. Apologies for the flippant tone.

(But privately I do kinda sorta want to believe that hobbits and leprechauns walk among us.)

No worries. I believe Welsh was one of the languages Tolkien was inspired by when he came up with Elvish.

Okay so for some reason I was googling former Vice President Daniel Tompkins.*

Found this wikigem:

Mangle Minthorne, an assistant alderman of New York City. The couple had eight children, including Arietta Minthorn Tompkins (born July 31, 1800), who married a son of Smith Thompson in 1818, and (Mangle) Minthorne Tompkins (December)

*= Probably because Christmas is coming and Daniel D. Tompkins is mentioned in "Miracle in 34th Street," which is one of the very few Christmas movies that I find even tolerable.

Okay sorry for the digression but seriously: Mangle Minthorne.

Mangle. Minthorne.

Of the New York Minthornes.

Not to be confused with Mangle Minthorne Tompkins, who was a completely different New York politician.

Gay Wimp

Kansas State Census, 1915

— Actual Names (@ActualNames1) November 23, 2023

abysmal real names