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[Nidokoenig]

It always amuses me that the generic name for dwarves comes from a weapon dwarves never make and rarely use. Seems like McHuman's right about them not being that sharp.

[veok]

Ironically, Large Daggers are the best weapon in the game for piercing armor. Does explain why Kobolds get so many kills, though!

I tend to get lots of miners named Ushrir. It's fitting -- means "quake".

[SirAaronIII]

I like Zasits and Eturs. Atirs are also nice but they tend to run away from battles easily for me.

[MarcAFK]

Oddly i have never noticed a single urist, but lots of Metobs and bomreks.

[OwlEpicurus]

Urist isn't the most common name.  Some of my shorter-lived forts never have one. 

I had an Urist recently: Urist Lorineth Zas Suvas, "Dagger Toolcities the Crystal of Luster."  She had 25 kills, but it was mostly dark stranglers with a couple goblins mixed in, so nothing too impressive.  She did have rather nice stats (incredibly quick to heal, tough, etc).

For some reason, almost every dwarf I've had with the name Mosus ends up being one of my main Masons.  Nishes tend to cause more trouble than they're worth; for example, I had one throw a tantrum and kill a poor Hauler in my last fort.  They seem to always be miserable, even when the other dwarves are perfectly happy... well, happy enough not to tantrum, at least...

I tend to like any names that sound good, either in Dwarf or in English.

[Scruga]

I have to agree, bomrek is the finest.

[Anathema]

I'm partial to Shorasts, ever since I embarked on my first evil biome and had an Ogre immediately come welcome my dwarves, before I could make a weapon or any kind of defense. A Shorast killed the Ogre alone with his bare hands - it took months - despite losing his right lung in the process (it was grey, completely gone, no idea how). He wouldn't even let the doctor take a look at it, it didn't seem to bother him.. psh, lungs, you have a spare one.

[moki]

The use of the name Urist for all dwarves comes from the legendary Urist Borushdumat who was pretty much the definition of dwarfiness back in the old days of skeletal elephants... read the story if you don't know it yet. It's awesome.
I haven't had any notable Urists so far... just some noble (Urist GlitterSyrup or something elvish [ish dat like elvish preshley?] like that) who ended as a red smear after 20 z-levels. Fittingly, my Urists seem to be the most unsocial, useless and annoying dwarves in the whole fort.

Personally, I like Bomrek. Nice and dependable. Id and Kol are nice too, especially in the military.

[EmperorJon]

My favourite has to be Melbil, is it?

[squeakyReaper]

Whenever I get a Urist, they usually have one point in all farming skills.  Nothing spectacular, but able to single handedly perform all food functions of the fort.  Truly the foundation.

[ImBocaire]

The king of the civ I'm currently playing as is named Urist Copperfight.

As for other dwarven names, I'm fond of Tekkud, less fond of Zas, and I despise that freeloader Dumat.

[KtosoX]

I like the names starting with the letter "L" , like Lorbam or Logem. And O... nvm

[Fen]

I have yet to become partial to any one dwarven name, but I do have a dwarf in my current fortress named Togal, after the god he worships (Togal, who takes the form of a male dwarf and is associated with war, death, mountains [or was it volcanos?] and fortresses.) I like to think that the dwarfs who worship Togal actually worship that one dwarf. The only thing he ever does is smooth and engrave stone, and I disabled every other labor for him.

Currently debating on promoting him to a position of status or just having him be a simple engraver all his life.

[ImBocaire]

I've found that the more I see a dwarf name in blue (Tekkud Zuglarid has engraved a masterpiece! x 1000) the better I like that name, and the more I see a dwarf name in red (Dumat Udibushrir cancels Pickup Equipment: Too injured x 1000) the less I like that name. Shit be Pavlovian.

[Oliolli]

I've found that the more I see a dwarf name in blue (Tekkud Zuglarid has engraved a masterpiece! x 1000) the better I like that name...

To me that only results in me liking that specific dwarf more, and me eventually learning what it exactly that he does.