Great Historic Names: What Happened?

Luke.

Hector is a good one.

There has never been a philosopher called Gary.
There has never been a fearsome warrior who instilled abject terror into his adversaries called Colin.

ExittheLemming wrote: There has never been a philosopher called Gary.

   and there never will be, dammit

Atavachron wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: There has never been a philosopher called Gary.    and there never will be, dammit

Gary Oldman is quite wise and philosophilcal

Malcolm - disciple of Saint Columba and slayer of Macbeth... currently used in our household (along with Colin) as the name of things that don't have a name and the slayer of dumb card tricks:

Edited by Dean - June 17 2012 at 05:08

We have a huge car-port nailed on the side of the house that's never seen a car (no oil stains on the floor) that we use as a general eating-outside area like a covered patio.When we first bought the house we were trying to decide what to call it as car-port was inappropriate given its normal use:  It's not posh enough to call a veranda and since we already have a paved uncovered-area that deems to be a patio we couldn't call it a patio either. Jokingly I said let's call it Malcolm, and that's what it's been called for the past ten years.

Edited by Dean - June 17 2012 at 05:07

for female names, Bertha is tragic; she goes from 'Bright One' to 'Unusually Fat One'

Anton is another name which have lost all its glory, which is a fine name and prominant

Muhammad, once a great prophet or a fighter now a great terrorist.