Sesquipedalian Smith

Sallah: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Junior"?
Professor Henry Jones: That's his name. (points to himself) Henry Jones (points to Indy) Junior.
Indiana Jones: I like "Indiana".
Professor Henry Jones: We named the dog Indiana.
—Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

When a character needs a name that tells the audience right away how awesome they are, this trope is one way to do it. The character will have a first name that's interesting and long - at least three syllables long - contrasted by short and unremarkable last name.

Similarly to Mister Strangenoun, the first name is sometimes a cool-sounding noun that isn't normally used as a name. It could also be a made-up word, or an actual name, but only one that's rare enough to still sound unique.

For the last name, "Smith" and "Jones" are the two most used, but any one-syllable name that sounds common and unremarkable also works.

Examples of Sesquipedalian Smith include:

Keeping up with the Joneses

Comic Books

Desolation Jones - While this is not the character's name, the series title fits the bill.

Film

Indiana Jones - As pointed out in the quote above, his real name is Henry Jones, Junior, but everyone remembers it as the name of the franchise.
Cleopatra Jones (and Foxy Brown, though that's only two syllables)
Christmas Jones from The World Is Not Enough.
Motherfucker Jones from Horrible Bosses.

Literature

Coraline Jones.
Jupiter Jones of The Three Investigators.

Live-Action TV

Parodied in Look Around You series 2 with Computer Jones and Synthesizer Patel.
Cyrano Jones, the merchant in "The Trouble With Tribbles".
Forgetful Jones, of Sesame Street.
Mercedes Jones

Radio

Inverurie Jones in the I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Spin-Off You'll Have Had Your Tea? episode "Inverurie Jones And The Thimble Of Doom".
Rochester Van Jones of The Jack Benny Program.

Theatre

The Musical Lysistrata Jones. The play's about a modern high schooler pulling a Lysistrata Gambit.

Video Games

Eulogy Jones from Fallout 3.
Time Splitters has an entire family of these spread across all three games and several centuries. The three that are introduced are Peekaboo Jones in 1965, his great-great-grandfather, Elijah Jones from the 1800's and Mordecai Jones from the Robot Wars in the 2200's.

Web Comics

Babylon Jones from Exploitation Now.
Parodies of Indiana Jones from Irregular Webcomic include North Dakota, Minnesota and Montana Jones.
Tigerlily Jones in Skin Horse. Her real name, Berenice, also qualifies.

Web Original

"Springboard Jones, the Divin' Detective! Vomitorium Jones, the Pukin' P.I.!" - Ludic Log

Western Animation

Osmosis Jones
The menacing Opera Singer in the Bugs Bunny short "Long-haired Hare". Giovani Jones. You know who directed it.

Real Life

Orlando Jones.
The civic center in Atlanta, GA is named for one Boisfeuillet Jones. No, really.
Cleolinda Jones.
Rashida Jones.
The actress January Jones.
Aphrodite Jones.

Namesmithing

Comic Books

Sierra Smith, a Western private eye in The DCU.

Film

Jefferson Smith, the eponymous Smith of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
Cars featured a background forklift named Nebuchanezzar Schmidt.

Literature

Northwest Smith from C. L. Moore's early science fiction, making this Older Than Television.
Zacharias Smith from Harry Potter
- And Hepzibah Smith.
Terry Pratchett has two Indy parodies: Howondaland Smith, Balrog Hunter in Discworld and Alabama Smith in Only You Can Save Mankind.
Predating Indy is Innocent Smith, of Manalive.
Sci-fi author Robert A. Heinlein was very fond of this trope, most often with the surname "Smith". His characters included Valentine Michael Smith, Woodrow Wilson Smith, and Johann Sebastian Bach Smith.
Waxahachie Smith
Eddington Smith, the soft-spoken bookseller in the Cat Who... books.

Live-Action TV

In a K-9 and Company annual, one story reveals that Sarah Jane Smith has a great-uncle who's an archaeologist called Africana Smith.
Jeremiah Smith, minor character in The X-Files.
Malcolm Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Umbrella Stand Jasper Wednesday (pops mouth twice) Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable (sound effect of horse whinnying) Arthur Norman Michael (blows squeaker) Featherstone Smith (blows whistle) Northgot Edwards Harris (fires pistol, which goes 'whoop') Mason (chuff-chuff-chuff) Frampton Jones Fruitbat Gilbert (sings) 'We'll keep a welcome in the' (three shots, stops singing) Williams If I Could Walk That Way Jenkin (squeaker) Tiger-draws Pratt Thompson (sings) 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' Darcy Carter (horn) Pussycat 'Don't Sleep In The Subway' Barton Mannering (hoot, 'whoop') Smith.

Video Games

Pollination Technician #9 Smith of Strangetown.
Jocinda Smith of Backyard Sports.

Real Life

Real Life: Jefferson Randolph Smith, better known as "Soapy"
Cordwainer Smith
Elliott Smith, singer/songwriter
Nevada Smith, which supposedly inspired the name "Indiana Jones".

Other Surnames

Comic Books

X-Men: Jubilation Lee
Batman's Hamilton Hill
Incredible Hercules: Amadeus Cho
Manchester Black, Superman's nemesis in the landmark Action Comics #775
Jefferson Pierce, AKA Black Lightning, one of the first major African-American superheroes.

Film

Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg
Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke) in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (and a similarly named character in Ian Fleming's lesser-known children's book on which it was based).

Literature

Encyclopedia Brown - His real name is Leroy, but no one calls him that.
- Maybe because Leroy Brown is a bad, bad name?
Children's Book: Dinosaur Bob
Lavender Brown from Harry Potter.
- And Sirius Black and Severus Snape.
  - Arabella Figg, Nymphadora Tonks (and Andromeda Tonks, nee Black), Broderick Bode, Caractacus Burke, Bartemius Crouch, Elphias Doge, Marvolo Gaunt, Augustus Pye, Pomona Sprout, Emeric Switch, Emmeline Vance, Romilda Vane, and pretty much all the other Blacks. Thank you, Wikipedia.
In L Sprague De Camp's Solomon's Stone, the hero finds himself in a world populated by the figures people daydream of being. Everyone has a Sesquipedalian Smith name, indicating first the daydream and then the mundane reality.
Huckleberry Finn
Atticus Finch
|Ichabod Crane
Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE - aaaah, screw it.
Charles Dickens liked these too: |Uriah Heep, Barnaby Rudge, and of course Ebenezer Scrooge.
Digory Kirke and Eustace Clarence Scrubb from The Chronicles of Narnia.
Dorian Gray.
In Terry Pratchett's Night Watch, the gravedigger's name is Legitimate First. ("Can't blame his mother for being proud.")

Live-Action TV

Inspector Morse, who was finally revealed to have the exotic first name "Endeavour".
Emerson Cod.
Veronica Mars
Kimberly Hart
Remington Steele
Gabriel Gray from Heroes.
Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce, better known as Hawkeye, from Mash.
Horatio Caine
Sebastian Smyth

Professional Wrestling

TNA X-Division wrestler Consequences Creed

Toys

Transformers: Optimus Prime

Video Games

Earthworm Jim
The Zork games feature a character named Antharia Jack. He's a movie star known for playing Indiana Jones-style roles, but his character's name is his own.
Ace Attorney Investigations: Calisto Yew
Prototype: Elizabeth Greene.

Web Comics

Gunnerkrigg Court: Antimony Carver, though that's two syllables.

Web Original

Warrick Kaine, Laurel Brant, and Brother Right, to name a few from The Descendants.

Western Animation

The Life and Times of Juniper Lee: Juniper Lee
Looney Tunes: Yosemite Sam
Transformers Animated: Prometheus Black
Rentwhistle Swack of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.
Courage the Cowardly Dog: Eustace and Muriel Bagge.

Real Life

Orangejello Brown and Lemonjello Brown. Well, except not.
Capability Brown (not his real name)... and his Discworld counterpart: Bloody Stupid Johnson (his less famous contemporaries being Sagacity Smith and Intuition de vere Slade-Gore.
Former US President Rutherford B. Hayes
- Preceded by Ulysses S. Grant.
Some Naming Guides actually suggest giving longer names to children born in families with a small surname.
Harrison Ford. Seems like the Indy connections have come full circle.
Keanu Reeves
Immanuel Kant, philosopher.
Elijah Wood, actor.
Cameron Crowe, film director.
Julianne Moore, actress.
Montgomery Clift, actor.
Susannah York, actress.
Mackenzie Crook, actor.
Oliver Platt, actor.
Timothy Spall, actor.
Naomi Watts, model and actress.
Alejandro Sanz, singer.
Vivien Leigh, actress.
Josephine Tey, author of mystery novels.
Ezekiel Hart, politician and entrepreneur.
Gregory Peck, actor.
Penélope Cruz, actress.
Thelonious Monk, musician.
Lucian Freud, painter.
Virginia Woolf, writer.
Fairuza Balk, actress.
Elisha Gray, inventor.
Rosamund Pike, actress.
Marian Keyes, romance novelist.
Deborah Kerr, actress.
Adelaide Kane, actress.
Angharad James, 17th century Welsh poet.
Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, an actor who played Mombasa in Predators.

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