Ancient Quote by Christopher Hitchens

I like the name Engelbert. It's unusual. But Humperdinck? Not so much.

— Engelbert Humperdinck

My father is Portuguese, and in Portugal, it is traditional to take your mother's maiden name as a middle name. My mum is called…

— Lucy Bronze

Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.

— Nancy Springer

A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names…

— George R. R. Martin

It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did…

— Kelley Armstrong

I grew up being called Eamonn-Martin-Dermott-Declan because I was the youngest of the boys and Mum would go through all their names first before…

— Declan Donnelly

My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.

— John Hurt

I would never be comfortable with an edited name. I have never hidden the fact that I am of Indian origin.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

There are four of us, and we were all born in different cities because my dad worked all around the place. We settled in…

— Gwilym Lee

I'm actually named Matthew William Kearney: my middle name is named after my grandfather.

— Mat Kearney

I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.

— Leigh-Allyn Baker