I really love those gangster names from old “Roaring Twenties” black and white movies–you know, those kinds where the gangsters are flipping their coins, leaning on the side of a car, looking all sleek and handsome. I don’t mean the modern gangs with colors and symbols that go around vandalizing everything though. Anyone have some good names that remind you of those kinds of “old” gangsters?
I think of [name]Al[/name] Capone etc… so most are italian nicknames! hahaha! how about…
[name]Joe[/name]
[name]Johnny[/name]
[name]Frank[/name]
[name]Al[/name]
[name]Tony[/name]
[name]Jack[/name]
Ohh, great topic. Are you after boys and girls?
Boys names like [name]George[/name], [name]Bobbie[/name] and [name]Frank[/name] spring to mind.
For girls, [name]Nancy[/name] and [name]Dulcie[/name] and [name]Nellie[/name] and [name]Maisie[/name].
[name]Benjamin[/name], as in Bugsy Siegel. Who had a habit of violently objecting to being called Bugsy.
[name]Clyde[/name] and [name]Buck[/name], as in the Barrows.
[name]Salvatore[/name] - as in [name]Charlie[/name] ‘[name]Lucky[/name]’ [name]Luciano[/name].
[name]Floyd[/name] - as in Pretty Boy. First name was [name]Charles[/name].
[name]Meyer[/name] - Lansky.
[name]Dino[/name] - as in [name]Dino[/name] [name]Cellini[/name] and [name]Dino[/name] Crocetti who later became [name]Dean[/name] [name]Martin[/name].
[name]Dino[/name], [name]Vincent[/name], [name]Francis[/name], and [name]Joseph[/name] or [name]Vinnie[/name]/[name]Frankie[/name]/[name]Joey[/name] are pretty much stock standard gangster names as well as being just your all-purpose circa-Prohibition vaguely Italian-American names.
[name]Minnie[/name], [name]Josie[/name], [name]Elsie[/name], [name]Daisy[/name], [name]Blanche[/name], [name]Lucy[/name], [name]Marion[/name], [name]Lois[/name], [name]Harriet[/name], [name]Jean[/name], [name]Ruby[/name], [name]Pauline[/name], [name]Lorraine[/name], [name]Rita[/name], and [name]Betty[/name]
[name]Jack[/name], [name]Harold[/name], [name]Tom[/name], [name]Cecil[/name], [name]Russell[/name], [name]Lawrence[/name], [name]Warren[/name], [name]Louis[/name], [name]Frank[/name], [name]Claude[/name], and [name]Hugh[/name]
[name]Dillon[/name], this spelling
[name]Al[/name] Capone
[name]Bonnie[/name] & [name]Clyde[/name]
[name]Frankie[/name]
[name]Johnny[/name]
[name]Floyd[/name]
[name]Mickey[/name]/[name]Mick[/name]
[name]Jimmy[/name]
[name]Tony[/name]
[name]Ernesto[/name]
[name]Bruno[/name]
[name]Johnny[/name]
[name]Tony[/name]
[name]Al[/name]
[name]Vito[/name]
[name]Charles[/name]/[name]Charlie[/name]
[name]Vincent[/name] – [name]Vince[/name] and [name]Vinny[/name]
[name]Lester[/name] ([name]Baby[/name] Face [name]Nelson[/name])
[name]George[/name] (Machine [name]Gun[/name] [name]Kelly[/name])
[name]Angelo[/name]
Here’s a long list :
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_were_the_gangsters_of_the_1920%27s
hope you find something you like on there.
[name]Vincent[/name] ([name]Vinnie[/name]/[name]Vinny[/name])
[name]Rocco[/name]/[name]Rocko[/name]
[name]Sal/name
[name]Ernest[/name] ([name]Ernie[/name])
[name]Jack[/name]
[name]Clyde[/name]
[name]Claud/name
[name]Frank/name
[name]Pete/name
[name]Paulie[/name]
[name]Rock/name
[name]Albert[/name]
[name]Alfred[/name]
[name]Bernard[/name]
[name]Carl[/name]
[name]Cecil[/name]
[name]Chester[/name]
[name]Clarence[/name]
[name]Claude[/name]
[name]Clifford[/name]
[name]Clyde[/name]
[name]Earl[/name]
[name]Edgar[/name]
[name]Elmer[/name]
[name]Ernest[/name]
[name]Eugene[/name]
[name]Floyd[/name]
[name]Frank[/name]
[name]Fred[/name]
[name]Harold[/name]
[name]Harvey[/name]
[name]Herbert[/name]
[name]Herman[/name]
[name]Homer[/name]
[name]Howard[/name]
[name]Jack[/name]
[name]Joe[/name]
[name]Leo[/name]
[name]Leonard[/name]
[name]Leon[/name]
[name]Lester[/name]
[name]Leroy[/name]
[name]Leslie[/name]
[name]Lloyd[/name]
[name]Louis[/name]
[name]Luther[/name]
[name]Melvin[/name]
[name]Milton[/name]
[name]Norman[/name]
[name]Oscar[/name]
[name]Ralph[/name]
[name]Ray[/name]
[name]Raymond[/name]
[name]Richard[/name]
[name]Roy[/name]
[name]Russell[/name]
[name]Stanley[/name]
[name]Theodore[/name]
[name]Walter[/name]
[name]How[/name] about [name]Gatsby[/name]? 
[name]Cris[/name]
[name]Cecelia[/name] nn Cecee
[name]Sadie[/name]
and
[name]Gulliver[/name]
Gatbsy (just noticed pp had the same idea)
[name]Archer[/name]