Moby 
American, "From Moby Dick"
Vegan musician Moby has made this name a true mainstream possibility. His parents borrowed it from ancestor Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick, but kids today will hear the name and think of the bald superstar before they remember it was a whale first.

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Mobey, Mobee, Mobe, Mobie
Nicknames
Mo, Moe, Mob
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