Similarly, the 50 names are culturally biased.

I am aware that “the canon” carries a bias toward dead white European males-DWEMS, as they were lovingly called in the Women’s Studies classes I took in college-and for that I am sorry. To be truly great, the name must be inherently sublime and also come from a great source. Names culled from “the canon,” such as it is, generally carry more weight than more obscure works. Seuss, ditto), or the books of the Bible (my relationship to the Catholicism of my childhood might look different if I didn’t decide, while still in elementary school, that Pontius Pilate had a much cooler name than did Jesus Christ). I’m not including plays (again, Shakespeare alone could have his own Top 50), poetry, most children’s literature (Dr. But I’m giving it a go anyway, because nothing makes me happier than a battery of “How can not be on the list? You suck!” comments. (And no, Don Quixote’s name is not here.) When you get right down to it, one could more easily make a list of the 50 greatest names in the works of Charles Dickens than a list of the 50 greatest names in all of literature. Impossibly subjective, impossibly unfair, impossibly quixotic. LET’S START WITH an obvious point: this is an impossible list to make.

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