if you're going to mention the goofy imperial names, you should also note the hokey quasi french of the bretons, and not to mention the corny redguard names too.
All made-up names are gonna sound made-up, no gettin' around it, but those Bigus dikeus names just get under my skin for some reason.
I wonder if the biggest problems with the Imperials is they replaced the Bretons as "Generic White Male Race Everyone Can Understand", and were specifically created to be Tiber Septim's personal Red Shirt Army.
Not having a race we can stick generic fantasy names to really svcks for playing who you want to be...