Portraits of the Reverand Ebenezer Devotion and his wife Martha, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

"Ebenezer Devotion" is one of the finest and most quintessentially early-American names I've ever heard.

This folk art portrait perfectly captures what I think Americans think of themselves at their best. This is the upstanding yet staid, cartoonish yet dignified, goofy yet approachable American male with the outstanding name.

Martha's pretty cool, too, but she would've benefited from a Puritan supername like "Hebzibah".