Just because it keeps coming up, and Victor mentioned he couldn’t remember most of the words that would be good names if they weren’t already words, here’s my complete list. Which is to say it’s the entire list I have written down, not that it’s comprehensive, because there are a lot of good ones we’ve thought of that I forgot to write down:

• Felony (a longtime favorite)
• Pistol
• Nazi
• Machete
• Pirate/Piracy
• Rival
• Malaria
• Burglar
• Larceny
• Soviet
• Parole
• Debris
• Fahrenheit
• Wrestler
• Tyranny
• Concertina
• Havoc (newest addition)
• And the classics: Fiasco, Vendetta, Siren

Some of them I like much better than others, but that’s not the point. Try them out with your last name, come up with a solid middle name (say Jane, Alice, Mary, James, Robert, William) and tell me it wouldn’t be awesome. This is one of those nice, no-pressure daydreams that you can be relatively certain won’t ever happen. It’s a good game for car trips, walks, classes and sermons that drag on a while.