Makes Donna into a cool twenty-first-century unisex Irish surname.

Forget Donald. Honor Grandpa Don with this new spin.

For fans of Warren G. All two of them.

Gasira is a journeyed name with an ancient history. It started as the Arabic word gezira (also commonly transliterated as jazira and jazeera), meaning "island," and sometimes "peninsula."

Tib was a unisex nickname in the 13th century, used as a short form of Theobald and Isabel. As Theobald waned in popularity, it became far more associated with girls, so much so that Tib was a term for young girls by the 16th century.

Possibly meaning "bold", this West African surname is less commonly found as a first name, too.

Baby-naming rule #984: forget any name that contains the syllable wig.

Much more niche and obviously Germanic than its anglicised cousins Everard and Everett, but with the same strong meaning. Eberhard is hardly ever used in the US - it's only made the charts once so far, back in 1918.

Dinand is popular in the Netherlands thanks to a local singing sensation. Dinand is one of many Dutch short forms that come from the middle or end of a name -- think Bas for Sebastian or Hans from Johannes -- rather than from the beginning as is more usual in the U.S. and UK, though we're catching on.

Dutch form of Baldwin

A striking word name for either gender. It's a safer choice when used as a middle name. Sixteen baby girls were named Brave in the US last year, the same number as were named Breezy.

Chirpy form of Leonard that's common in its native Slovenia.

A modern virtue name with ancient charm, Valor works well as it doesn't come up in everyday conversation all that often. Predominantly used for boys, Valor has been given to a slowly growing number of girls in the last decade, with 15 receiving the name in a recent year.

Nenna is the name of the heroine of Penelope Fitzgerald's novel Offshore, but it's also sparingly used in Scandinavia as a variant of the name Nanna. Nanna is a diminutive of various names, including Anna, Johanna and Marianne, but it's also a name in its own right, possibly meaning "daring".

A more modern variation of Rǫskva, a Norse mythological name derived from rǫskr, "brave".

We can hear the kids teasing him from here.

If Brave isn't enough for you, you might try Braver, which has an even stronger meaning. Braver's -er ending gives it surname style.

Enigmatic choice of enigmatic John Malkovich.

A strong Indian name used for a character in the series The Legend of Korra.

A stylish and resonant Swahili name with great potential.