Comments on: The Quick 10: The Full Names of 10 Mononymous People

By: Paul Brin

Paul Brin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:13:53 +0000

This has been fun!
Regarding Meat Loaf. that’s a stage name and doesn’t meet the requirements of the definition of a mononym, or “single name”.

By: Paul Brin

Paul Brin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:43:26 +0000

I enjoyed this so much I grabbed the domain name and intend to expand the list.
I might even take on the mononymous of Mononymous!

By: gus

gus — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:17:00 +0000

Two things:
!) Fabio served in the Army Airborne
@) As I never met my father, and do not have his surname, I have thought of dropping my current last name and use my first – Augustus. I feel it stands well on it’s own.

By: bleen

bleen — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:35:00 +0000

RA- Are you crazy?! Robyn is still around and recently put out an amazing album. Critics loved it, and from what I can tell, so did everyone else.
You should seriously listen to it.

Also, “Show Me Love” is FAR from forgettable!

By: Shasta

Shasta — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:16:00 +0000

I always wonder if people like Bono and Sting actually go by those names with their wives and other close people. Cuz that’s kinda weird.

By: Jason!

Jason! — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:04:00 +0000

Odetta passed away a couple of days ago… full name Odetta Holmes.

Here’s a link for you young’uns:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odetta

By: Stacy the Amazing

Stacy the Amazing — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:43:00 +0000

My first name is Stacy too, and I want to be loyal and say that Stacy is a great Mononymous name, but as you can see I feel I have to put an adjective behind my name to make it interesting. So I feel you Stacy, except I have my dad to thank.

By: RA

RA — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:15:00 +0000

Another reason why Rhianna probably doesn’t go by Robyn is because there was a singer in the 90′s by that name. She had a couple of forgettable hits.

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:38:00 +0000

On the Prince subject, there’s also Prince Fielder, son of Cecil Fielder, who actually went on to out do his own father in baseball.

So you can’t be too far off on the naming your son Prince psychology.

I honestly don’t care about baseball, I just went to elementary school with Prince. :)

By: m

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:56:00 +0000

I think Fabio looks silly, but he seems like a nice enough guy. considering the fact that he makes his living off of his looks, I think itâ€™s pretty cool that he didnâ€™t throw a fit when that bird flew into his face on that roller coaster. Anyway, I read an interview with him one time and he seemed like a decent guy (despite being a bit cocky).