NOT EPONYMOUS: He was the 18th century inventor of the seed drill

NOT EPONYMOUS: The band claims it was the street name of a 17th century prostitute who had a penchant for decapitating her clients, though there's no evidence such a person existed

NOT EPONYMOUS: Named after the road at exit 108 of I-5 in Lacey, WA, the band's hometown

NOT EPONYMOUS: Stylized misspelling of the band's former gym teacher in Jacksonville, FL

NOT EPONYMOUS: Canadian pop quartet chose, in fact, Winnie-The-Pooh's proper name

NOT EPONYMOUS: Named after a blind piano tuner in Spartanburg, SC who was the previous tenant of the band's rehearsal hall; their keys still had his name engraved on them.

NOT EPONYMOUS: Upstate NY folk-rock legends were unlucky on their first gig: the MC was too drunk to pronounce 'Dawn Of' correctly

NOT EPONYMOUS: They took their name from a The New Yorker magazine headline on a story about Sinatra

NOT EPONYMOUS: The 'most ordinary name' the band could think of, because they believed that the synthpop bands of the day had absurdly pretentious names

NOT EPONYMOUS: Borrowed from the nicknames of two of the lead singer's college friends, neither of whom are in the band

NOT EPONYMOUS: Numerous conflicting accounts, though perhaps the most plausible is that their first MC mispronounced both 'Eric' and 'Dynamos'

NOT EPONYMOUS: The lead singer strongly resembled the animated Mr. Peabody's faithful companion (the initial 'S' was dropped for alliterative purposes)

NOT EPONYMOUS: Disney? Hardly. They're named after a 1965 French children's book by Cecile Aubry

NOT EPONYMOUS: From the Dylan song 'The Ballad of Frankie Lee and _______________'

NOT EPONYMOUS: He's the antagonist from Dickens' 'David Copperfield'

NOT EPONYMOUS: From the first names of two blues legends, _____ Anderson and ______ Council

NOT EPONYMOUS: This trio of unrelated musicians got their name from the detectives in Herge's 'The Adventures Of Tintin'

NOT EPONYMOUS: This all-female band adopted matching stage names because, well hey, it worked for The Ramones

NOT EPONYMOUS: Named after the archduke whose assassination sparked World War I

NOT EPONYMOUS: Chicago alternative legend Jon Langford had assembled an alt-country band and needed a convincing Southern-sounding name

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