User:Dystopos/All Name Team

My personal lists of some the best names in Birmingham history:

Fun short names

• Hul-Cee Acton
• Otto Dus, Pastor of St Catherine of Siena Catholic Church
• Two-Boys Gumede, UAB soccer player
• Sam Will John
• Wulf Koch
• Tuck Kornegay
• Garnet Leader
• Sang Lyda
• Ocllo Mason
• Barge McCall, 1942 air raid warden (and "scrap man") for Leeds
• Zipp Newman, Birmingham News sports editor, 1933.
• JoJo Starbuck, Olympic figure skater
• Eph Tunkle, pianist for the Society Serenaders
• Azor Van Hoose

Fun medium-sized names

• Spurgeon Banyard
• Young Boozer III
• Lone Jensen Broussard
• Sander Cakebread
• Eleanor Clinkscales
• Alfred E. Conybear
• Tene Dolphin
• Spright Dowell
• Culpepper Exum
• Electric Griffin, Birmingham High School Class of 1916
• Lazarus Gusdofer, clerk at Famous Clothing Store in 1884
• Dolester Miles
• Vasthy Mompoint
• Sydenham Moore
• Sigmund Nesselroth
• Retin Obasohan
• Wytangy Peak-Finney
• Oswaldo Ponce
• Memory Leake Robinson
• Notable Smith
• Milner Snuggs
• Stan Stefansic
• Walladean Streeter
• Ninian Tannehill
• Tryphena Voltz, girls' adviser at Woodlawn High School
• Rebel Zeigler

Fun long names

• Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh
• Fleeta Holt Dodderar Chappelear
• Godfrey Chryssoverges
• Ingermar Liquori Kuwait Cleggett
• Efrem Zembelist Fulford
• Logwood Ulysses Goin
• Leven Savage Hazlegrove
• Freeman Alphonsa Hrabowski III
• Zenko John-Gregory Hrynkiw
• Hewlett Chervis Isom Jr
• Theophilus Calvin Jowers
• Pennington Pribbenow
• Audrey Marx Skirball-Kenis
• Trygve Olaf Tollefsbol
• Sidney William Jiroušek van Sheck

Classical names

• Armenius Bennett
• Leonidas Cicero Dickey
• Orion Theophilus Dozier
• Logwood Ulysses Goin
• Magnus Miller Gorrie
• Theophilus Calvin Jowers
• Orlandus Regulus, orderly at South Highlands Infirmary

Names inspired by Native Americans

• Powhatan James, Baptist minister
• Cherokee Jemison Van de Graaff Rountree
• Delaware Williams

Pun names

• London Bridges
• Merry Christmas, minister
• Lexi Coon
• Lake Erie Crenshaw, mother of Edward Crenshaw
• Kris Cross
• Rusty Dorr
• Izzy Gould
• Polly Graham, market research executive
• Harry Lipson
• Shiney Moon (1906-1953), artist
• Carrie N. Moore, principal of Enon Ridge School
• Cherri Pitts, architect
• Buck Wheat, co-founder of Miss Myra's Pit Bar-B-Q
• Hewy Woodman, Helena City Council member
• Olden Young (1894-1976), miner

Redundant names

• Chris Christ, attorney and judge
• Chris Christie, attorney
• David David, real estate agent
• Fouad Fouad, engineer
• John Johns, CEO of Protective Life
• Joe Joseph, restuarateur
• Henry Henry, vice-president at Alabama Power
• Matt Mathews, photographer and barrel racer
• Swaid Swaid, neurosurgeon
• Tommy Thomas, former Pelham police chief
• Wardie Wardy (1848-1918)
• William Williams, architect
• William H. Williams, Baptist minister

Oxymoronical names

• Valley Crest Apartments
• Olden Young (1894-1976), miner

Commonly misspelled names

• Karon Bowdre
• Georges Bridges
• E. G. Burchfiel
• Kaitlan Collins
• Courteney Cox
• Chriss Doss
• Heman Drummond
• Diean Hairston
• Lary Hayes
• David Hobdy
• Emmet O'Neal
• Gray Plosser
• Shelia Smoot
• Ferd Weil
• Stimson Woodward

Names shared with someone much more famous

• Louis Armstrong, director of Indian Springs School
• Jeff Bridges, chief of the Trussville Police Department
• Charlie Brown, assistant superintendent of schools
• John Brown, street preacher
• Chris Christie, attorney
• Cindy Crawford, newspaper editor
• Lillie Cole, Kingston neighborhood president
• Henry Ford, co-founder of A Promise to Help ministry
• Ben Franklin, radio engineer
• Bill Morgan Freeman, artist and craftsman
• Robert Frost, restaurateur
• Hugh Grant, principal of Barrett Elementary School
• Don Johnson, heating & air conditioning executive
• Richard Harris, South Pratt neighborhood president
• Katie Holmes, Red Mountain Theatre Co.
• Robin Hood, co-founder of NHabit
• Andrew Jackson, Eden Elementary School teacher
• Robert Kennedy, UAB researcher
• Ted Kennedy, founder of BE&K
• Steven King, former Blount County circuit judge
• Kenny Loggins, convicted murderer
• Billy Martin, advertising executive
• Bill Murray, meteoroligist
• Barbara "Bobbie" Orr, maiden name of Mrs Hugh Kaul
• Robert Palmer, attorney and author
• Annie Potts, vice president of Grasselli Heights
• Keith Richards, founder of Taziki's
• Robbie Robertson, CEO of The Colonnade Group
• Fred Rogers, mayor of Roosevelt City
• Richard Simmons, author and former insurance executive
• Smothers Bros Transmission Service
• James Stewart, Mayor of Irondale
• Peter Weller, Unitarian minister
• Kaiser Wilhelm, Barons pitcher and manager
• Charles Yeager, director of Turkey Creek Nature Preserve

Men with names (now) more commonly given to girls

• Brandy Ayers (1935–2020), newspaper publisher
• Lauren Barrett, architect
• Laurie Battle
• Maxie Baughan
• Jule Beasley
• Brooke Burnham
• Ashley Curry
• Camille Desmarais
• Luellen Foster
• Dee Fowler
• Courtney Haden, Courtney Shropshire
• Carol Hayes
• Beverly Head
• Hilary Herbert
• Jan Jeffries
• Gail Joyce
• Elsie Lewis (-1928), a motorcycle officer
• Brooksie Lovvorn
• Gail Marsh, baker
• Rosamond McDuff
• Dana Ousler
• Rose Owen
• Rubee Pearse
• Clare Purcell (1884-1964), Methodist bishop
• Shelley Stewart
• Kay Tortorice (d. 2020) principal
• Stacy Williams
• Leslie Wright

Women with names more commonly given to boys

• Jacque Bailey
• Lewis Barrett
• Bedford Embry
• Michael Etheridge, Michael Robinson
• Walton Foster
• Brantley Fry
• Miller Girvin
• Marty Handlon
• Ivan Jo Hightower
• Micah Morgan
• Clyde Phillips, wife of M. Paul Phillips
• Stewart Richards
• Cecil Roberts
• Willis Rushton
• Barry Wise Smith
• Jerry Songer
• Kyndall Waters