Thanks to everybody who left a comment or sent an e-mail our way with Capitol Hill name ideas. Even if you aren’t planning to increase the Hill’s brat lil’ darlin population, we hope you might find some inspiration in it all. Trucks, dogs and favorite body parts need names, too.

Here are some more Capitol Hill names to consider from Capitol Hill’s old timey days. Like any good names, some stand for important values, while some just sound cool. And, they are all yours — we’ll probably stick a goofy name on our kid but, alas, it won’t be one of these.

• Frederick Anhalt designed and built his signature apartment buildings in the shadow of the Great Depression.
• The Beezer brothers built many prominent buildings in our part of Capitol Hill including St. Joe’s school.
• Horace Cayton was a former slave who rose to prominence in politics and journalism in early 20th century Seattle. The newspaper publisher fought against a racially motivated lawsuit and won to keep his 14th Ave home only to be forced to sell years later when financial burdens took their toll.
• Bertha Landes was elected mayor of Seattle in 1926. Her ghost reportedly haunts the building that at one time hosted the city’s Woman’s Century Club, today’s Harvard Exit Theater.
• 19th Ave’s Russian Community Center was, from 1925 to 1945, The Roycroft Theatre, home of Saturday matinees and accessible from the long-gone street trolley line.
• Selim Woodworth was granted the land that would someday be Capitol Hill for his service as a Civil War-era navy officer. Unfortunately, he made his home in California and did some bad stuff like letting the Donner Party starve. But he had a cool name.

There’s a few to get you thinking. Check out the state’s history site (then double check on the web and on sites like Wikipedia to get all sides to each story) for more. Strange thing about history is that it takes a few years before you can read about it. What happened on Capitol Hill in the 1960s and 70s — and the 80s and 90s for that matter? What names were living here? Hopefully those days are remembered and, when everybody is old enough to care again, it gets written down and shared. We’ll try to dig up some more name ideas from other eras for a future post or two.