Dan Hon has a cracking piece on children's names inspired by fonts on his new blog. Some of them made me laugh out loud:

• Copperplate (boy's name, ginger hair)
• Comic Sans MS (only if you're an eccentric celebrity)
• Monaco (probably already being used by Victoria Beckham or Madonna)
• Rockwell (cowboy)
• Schoolhouse Cursive B (exception that quite irritatingly does something to the rule)
• SimSun (possibly something that would inadvertently either please or dishonour my parents)
• Snell Roundhand (old money again)
• Trebuchet (military family)
• Wide Latin (mean mother making a comment about how her daughter should lose some weight)
• Tahoma (surname probably Phoenix)
• Mistral (girl's name)
• Marker Felt (never going to work as a teacher)
• Lucida Sans (quite posh girl)
• Wingdings (see earlier comment about my parents, or possibly suitable for a chicken farmer's son)

It had me searching through the Fonts palette to find a few more. Plantagenet Cherokee (rugged yet sensitive) seems like quite a good name for the hero of a novel, and in honour of the rather dubious name for the new Intel Apple laptops, how about LiHei Pro?