What should we name our son? He’s due in August, we like classic names that aren’t too common. We just can’t settle on one and I think you’d be great at this.
Off the top of my head, I’m feeling Gabriel, Rowan, Oliver, or Winston. If I think of more names that I like, I’ll let you know.
(Everyone feel free to jump into the comments section with your suggestions. Let’s name this little dude.)
Lee and Avery come to mind.
Some of my favorites: Noah, Grayson, Ethan
Theodore.
Judah
I like Dayne. It was the name of my first high school crush.
Dylan, Finn, Lyndon, Cilian (Kilian).
*Killian/Cillian
For the love of god ppl if you like Irish names spell them correctly.
Oops. I’m Irish too :/
Bertram, Alaric, Oscar, Gilbert.
Alaric?
They said classic not classical antiquity haha
Alaric! Oh that’s 100% the CW and the vampire diaries.
Alaric was also the name of the Visigoth who sacked Rome in 410 CE, though you’re probably right about where they got it from.
Yeah, I didn’t think the CW invented it.
No, I was actually thinking of the Visigoth! Had no clue there was a character on the CW of that name.
(I love Gothic and Frankish names. If I were naming a kid, I’d be looking at Theobald, Theodoric, Radegund, Clothilde…. it’s probably a good thing I’m not procreating.)
Eamon, Reed, Anton, Anders
Adam, Roger, Kieran (if you’re ok with Celtic names…!).
Adam or Emil.
Emil is great. Father of neuroscience!!
I’ve been into Scottish names these days: Calum, Graeme, Ewan
Other favorites: Byron, Grady, Levi, Tucker, Eli, Finn, Wyatt
Asa. And another vote for Lee.
Ooh, Asa is one of my favorite names!
Murrey
I’ve always liked Sebastian.
If there’s a book or game or movie both of you like, you could pick a name of a favorite character.
Seconding Sebastian.
Thirding Sebastian. Also Daniel, Marcus, Devon or Nicholas (Nicky).
I just named my new car Sebastian and it’s the best
Shane
Frank
Ayrton
Liam, Caleb, brian, matthew
I’ll never have kids, but if I ever had a son, I would name him Gabriel.
Don’t pick Avery. It’s very over used by parents today, like Catherine was twenty years ago. Your kid will be one of a million Avery’s.
Old saints sometimes provide good names, regardless of your religious affiliation. Names like Adrian, Dominic, Sebastian, Lucian, Matthew all fit the “classic but uncommon” criteria.
Avery is popular because it is gender neutral.
Huh, Matthew is considered uncommon now? Interesting. I feel like I went to school with a lot of Matts. (Born in ’85, for context.)
Of course it is. When was the last time you met an infant/toddler/young child named Matthew? Not in years, I’d bet. Same for many other 80s names.
I don’t know too many young Matthews (as in, below the age of 25). It’s a common name but not really en vogue right with current parents.
i think avery is only popular for girls, though. don’t know if that changes anything
Grover, Milton, Clarence, Newt.
Henry, William, Algernon.
Algernon is great!
If you are worried about a name being common, check the social security baby names register. You can check the most popular names of the previous year (and century) and several of those listed here are in the top ten.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/
Fascinating! Thanks for the link!
One of the biggest trends in boys names have been names that end in “n”. I’d avoid that if you want something unique.
Yeah, so many Jaden, Caden, Aiden, Braden … Blech!
On the off chance you meant classic names from my homeland: Nikola, Aleksa, Marko, Uroลก(h), Vuk (vook), Milan, Ilija (Ilya).
You’re Serbian?
Mixed.
But otherwise, Bingo.
Love from Serbia CQ!!!
Ah, a fellow Serb. Hi!
Nikola is my favourite, also Stefan.
Ezra. It’s unique and classic
Harrison. Always loved that name – classic and strong.
Everett.
Hugo or Hugh, Bruno, George, Frank or Finlay would be on my list.
If it was a girl I’d pick Oona or Fern.
Ezra, Isiah, Ethan.
Ethan is my husband’s name, I think it’s awesome.
My sons name is Enoch Seven.
Lee. Or Leo to make it fancy.
Elliot, Michael, Kieran, Dylan and Soren are all on my top 10 baby boy names list. I’m currently dating a Lee and I think the name has an attractive ring to it, but that’s just me ๐
David, Benjamin, Nathaniel, Elliot, Josiah
I want to put in a second vote for Noah. I’ve also always loved Calvin, ever since Calvin O’Keefe was my first literary crush.
Second Calvin!
Dude, I’m totally nerding out, I’ve always had a weird fondness for names.
They don’t want common names, so no go on Noah. It’s been in the top five since 2011, and the number one name for 2013 and 2014 (the last year that the SSA has released data for).
Harlan, Graeme and Ronan were on my list. Settled on Remy Jack. I love my son’s name, still love the other ones too.
Fiachra (f ee uh k r ah, although I’ve always pronounced it more of a fee-khra)
Josiah. Call him Jed.
Oh, or lewellyn.
Taking a few from above, but I like: Adlai, Ari, Ian, Liam, Ezra, Erik, Felix, James, Idris, Harrison, Hugh, Oliver, Graham, Gabriel, Rhett, Pierce, Elliot…
Emerson. My personal favorite.
Crisco
LMAO the inventor of transfat
Mark, Paul, Denis, Sam, Joseph, Arthur.
Second Arthur
Owen, Forest, Ellis, Eller, Saylor
Gabriel is a gorgeous name. Oliver is what I would name my child if I had one. I love Danforth (go all out) or Elliot as well.
Gabriel is a gorgeous name. Oliver is what I would name my child if I had one. I love Danforth (go all out) or Elliot as well.
I like the names William, Julian and Lucien for a boy.
As someone with an unusually spelt name, I would ask on behalf of your child that you give them the usual spelling of whatever name you choose. People never seem able to spell or pronounce my name properly without a lot of hand holding. Same with my sister, who has a common name with strange spelling even relatives seem very baffled by.
Oliver, Henry, Charles
I love the name Rowan.
For the love of sweet baby jesus, please, nothing that rhymes with Aidan. Including Aidan.
Odeon, Malcolm, Leighton, Darwin
Laertes, or Everett.
Laertes, rightful king of Denmark!!!
I am pretty impressed that out of however many comments, not one person mentioned gender politics around assigned at birth sex vs. gender. Name your baby whatever feels right, and make him the promise that you will support and nurture him wherever he may fall on the gender spectrum.
Um, this isn’t tumblr. Hasn’t been for a long time.
She (guessing here) used gendered pronouns in a post about how assigning gender was bad… h e h e
There is a time and a place for gender politics. Naming your kid is not one of them. I sincerely hope the parents support their child wether he turns out to be a he or a she or a they, but this is ridiculous.
Ugh.
Walter, Jack, Robert, Charles, Terrence, Fabian, Franklin
Louis.
But which pronounciation? The English or French?
Nobody has mentioned Germanic names. Olaf, Adolph, Jurgen, Hans…etc. As a black person with a French name(Yves, born in the 80s), if you want a name that isn’t common, go to old languages and other cultures. If I ever have a child, dude is getting a kickass Hindi/Hindu name. Krishnan or Shiva or Gayatri/Gita if it’s a little dudette. Kali is another favourite. Sanskrit names are amazing and powerful.
If you’re going for unique, borrow names from other cultures.
Adolph? R u kidding me?
Dolph, then. Dolph Lundgren carries it off then.
People still name their kids Joseph, don’t they? (Joseph Stalin?) Victoria, Elizabeth and various English names? The names of the English Royals who oversaw the colonisation of entire continents along with the consequent massacres? All those pilgrims who showed up to the Americas and killed off the Native Americans and herded the rest into reservations?
If we’re going to base names on what famous people with them did for evil, the only names we’d have will be Jesus…
Eugene
careful with that axe
Hunter. My cousin named her baby that and I’m jealous she got to it first. Elliot, Simon and Arthur are also nice. Rowan is good, too.
Speaking of which– my boyfriend is a II. This reminded me of the feeling of having to name our son a III, which is kind of a weird feeling since I never cared much for legacy names. So… I’ll be finding nicknames?
How about calling him Three? That way he’ll be both a number and unique.
Or just skip ahead to Septimus!
Tertius
You can call him Trey.
nice!
Yeah I knew a Trey in college – I thought it was clever!
Why do you *have* to name him your son a III?
David
Atticus. Elliott. Lachlan.
Seconding Atticus
I love the name Lucas. I also used to love the name Jonas (but then the Jonas Brothers came along and I had to take it off the table). Like someone else mentioned, I also like the name Hunter.
Guys… they said UNCOMMON names. Try not to hit names in the top 1000 (for 2014). Like Gabriel, #24; Rowan, #239; Oliver #32; Winston, #538. Lee, #701. Avery, #13 for girls and #186 for boys. Noah is literally #1; Grayson is #63, Ethan is #6.
My idea? Look at the top baby names from the 1920s and cross-reference them with the top 1000 for 2014. (I can’t seem to find 2015 lists? Weird.)
Clarence, Norman, Bernard, Floyd, Milton, Cecil, Luther, Lyle, Lonnie… All on the 1920s list but not the 2014 list.
Norman? Clarence? Cecil? No. No, no, no. Take your annoying numbers and shitty names and go sit in the corner.
As if Gabriel and Winston aren’t the shittiest names this side of the Civil Rights act of 64.
They said “names that aren’t too common.” You think that means nothing in the top thousand? I’m sorry, but that’s insane.
Probably more like outside the top 40 or 50.
If you want the 1920s, go for my grandpa and his brothers: Harold, LaVerne, Elmer. And Richard, too, but only if you use the nickname Dick. Guarantee there won’t be many Elmers at daycare.
Just the glue.
My dad was a Richard born in the 1920s, and many people called him by the nickname Dick. Which combined with our last name was very, VERY funny.
Grayson is 63?? Damn, poor kids.
I kind of agree. I’m in prime baby years and like 50% of the names on this list are babies I know. I know a gabriel, theo, anders, soren, noah, oliver, Avery and wyatt, ethan, and owen and shane.
I was going to comment the same only that it’s greater than 50% at my kids school for the names above. There is an Oliver or Olivia in every class. Noah, Gabe, Lucas, William, James, Wyatt etc. Lots of Dylans, Jacks, Evans and Ethans too. Their names became Evan C and Even P because there are so many.
That Uncle Tom on the supreme court bench has ruined Clarence for me. I’ll give you Cecil(demille).
There is a wide gulf between “classic but uncommon” and “dustbowl Baptist cult leader”, guy.
I like Luther and Lonnie! Let’s see who I can remember of my male relatives (or my parents friends) born in the eighteen somethings or the nineteen oughts, teens, twenties, and thirties: Earl, Edwin, Homer, Vincent, Gerald, Jack, Beauford (went by Booboo), William, Albert, Van, Alfred (Alf), Donald, Harold, Dempsey, Tye.
I know there are some I’m forgetting. My parents knew a lot of people who’s names my brother and I thought were really odd or interesting when we were little kids.
Fucking white people, man.
Said the white person.
Coke, how and why did you assume they’re white?
Because non-white people don’t waste their time openly eye-rolling white people for doing white people things.
http://media0.giphy.com/media/RM6RisW78uT3W/200_s.gif
What white people?
Bruce, Holden, Nelson, Creston, Issiah, Thomas, Kenton, Keith, Jacob
Already been mentioned above a couple of times, but Liam sounds wonderful. Also Aaron.
Instead of finding a name that’s classic. You could try finding a word you wish for your child. It could be a virtue, influence, future or hope. And then try to find the name that is derived from or means that.
*snorts* Virtrude
okay…i admit it was dumb.
I’ve always loved the name “Henry.” It’s well-known but not common in the last few generations. It’s a name that’s warm and suits pretty much any age bracket you can think of (adorable baby name, cute tween name, crushable teen name, dependable adult name, sweet old man.)
Henry Kissinger.
Henry Hill.
…yeah…lovable. ๐
Ha! I wasn’t thinking of historical examples. (Henry VIII, etc.), but personal examples in both my family and beyond. No name’s perfect.
Henry Chinaski
I had a great uncle named Finner, probably born in the late 1910’s or 1920’s. If I were interested in having kids, that’d be my boy name pick.
Archibald, Elysian, Rawley, Poe, Thaddius, Lucius or Lucian, Ross, Mason, Tully, Harrison, Seamus (shay-muss), Dana, St. John (sin-jin), Sterling Hayden.
You can also look at last names that work as first names. I think this was a trend 15 years ago, but maybe youโll find something you love that way.
Oh and Gregory, Cedric, Priam (I know a 3 yr old with that one, but I doubt it’s coming back in style)
Again, Priam is less classic and more classical antiquity.
I can’t imagine a 4 syllable name like Elysian being very practical.
Thaddius sounds like a great porn name. I like Dana
Luke/Lucas, Matthew, Franklin, Vincent and Anthony are classics that have no bad associations for me. Also Keith.
For a wild card, I like Ulysses and August.
Evan is good for a Gen X revival!
Is it time for a George revival? Nah, too Bushy. Too bad!
Personally I’m really tired of Celtic names for non-Celts, and cowboy-Western sounding names like Cody for non-cowboys, but that’s just my opinion.
If you’re gonna go August why not go full Augustus?
“non-Celts” isn’t a thing
Congratulations! Yours is a nice problem to have.
Alexander
Frederick
Leonard, (or Leo, or Leon)
Gabriel, Henry, and Cedric have my votes.
Bartholomew, Sebastian, William, Jackson.
My mum’s parenting advice is always:
Tip 1: don’t tell people what you intend to name your kid before it’s out. Once it’s out people can’t give you their two cents.
Tip 2: everyone will have their own opinions. Ignore them all. No one has any idea what they are doing.
He’s due in August. Why not name him accordingly? August is a lovely, classic, yet quite uncommon name.
I also know an august. I don’t think it’s uncommon anymore.
I vote Alexander, Robert and William.
David is one of my favorites, although it’s not really old-fashioned.
Arthur
Gordon or Jude
Don
Wyatt or Emmet
I wanna set this comments section on fire.
Do you often go places where you’re uncomfortable and then announce that you wish ill? I’m trying to imagine showing up at a coffee shop and yelling, “hipsters should burn.”
Colton
Jay
Kendall
Logan
Use a name with heft … Master, Prince, Captain, Sargent, Duke, Doctor, Professor, Judge
I know a kid named Bishop. Barf.
Senator, Governor, Attorney General, Notary Public, Prothonotary
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Cayenne Paprika Cilantro Sage
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme.
Charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent
Name your kid either Rainbow or Pony. done.
And may the best woman WIN.
REMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERE
Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker
(Which last profession would actually be Chandler, but please don’t name your kid that because JUST NO *barf*)
So now we’re just going with professions? Okay… Welder, taxidermist, plumber, paver, logger, barista?
Bikini Waxer, Cow Tipper, Synchronized Swimmer
Jasper
Arlow, Cian (Kian), Dylan, Augustus, Francis
Elias is my all-time favorite. I also like Finn, Ian, Liam, Tristan, Shane, Dimitri, Ezra, and Jonah.
Arliss! Alexander, Emmet, Jones, Alphonse? Dmitry, Tristan?
If you go with an Irish/Scottish/Celtic name, *please* research and make sure it’s spelled properly. It really breaks my heart when Americans bastardise Irish names.
Some of my favourite Irish akes names are Cian (key-an), Ruadhรกn (roo-awn), Diarmuid (deer-mid) and Domhnall (Doh-null)
Gabriel is gorgeous. Victor is good too. I’ve always liked Jude.
I hope OP comes back and tells us what they picked.
Oooh….Victor
why you bein a linguistic prescriptivist right now
classist as shite
“linguistic prescriptivist”
it has nothing to do with class. i’m just a person from ireland, living in ireland who at one point lived in the states and noticed a lot of instances in which irish names would be mispronounced, misspelled, etc. not even that they’d use certain less popular variations of a spelling, but just blatantly get it wrong.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alisoncaporimo/totally-unique-baby-names#.sjl6nJvYO
This shit, for example. Quinn and Tierney are surnames, not fornames. Siobhรกn and Sinรฉad should have fadas on them. Bartley idk what to even tell u. It’s this I have in mind when I make these comments but look, whatever, class me classist if u want.
I’m with you even though it feels pretentious to pronounce Laurent as the French do. I just hear all these people say low-rent and I imagine that hurts.
Consider a name that has lots of possible nicknames, is gender neutral (or readily gender-swappable), or both. I’m in favor of giving kids as much leeway as possible to define themselves, and names are a huge part of that.
Quinn fits that criteria. I swear to god I have the most inviting name for nicknames. All of my friends call me something different. At my last job my coworkers made a game of inserting my name anywhere it rhymed with a syllable. “This person’s here for their quinnterview.” “I’m feeling mexiquinn food for dinner.” It was slightly obnoxious but also cute. Name your kid Quinn. He’ll turn out great.
No. Do the opposite of this.
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I genuinely didn’t know there was an emoji for that. Thanks.
Phillip works for this. Think “Phil’d in” etc.
Felipe is also nice. Like the horse in Beauty and the Beast.
It’s a good thing I never had kids (and never will) because I hate names that make easy nicknames. It seriously grates on me to hear beautiful names like Stephen, Micheal, or Edward shortened to Steve, Mike, or Ed. Or Kathryn/Catherine to Kate or Cathy. I mean, great if that’s what the person wants to be called, but I’ve found most nicknames/shortened forms are often bestowed by other people who for whatever reason don’t care to say the full amount of syllables.
Or pronounce it right! I once had a friend with a beautiful name of French origin, that NOBODY could get right, even though it was spelled just like it was pronounced. They either called her the harsh sounding Americanized version, or mispronounced it a different way after a European actress with a similar name became famous in the 80s. Once somebody actually asked me “Why do you call her {pronounced correctly}?” Uh, because that’s actually her name?
And yes, it really bugged her, but it had been happening most of her life and eventually she just got tired of having to continually correct just about everyone.
Pretty Ricky Rubicon
Ice
The Devil’s Luthier
Brondo
Triystan
Maravilla Sin Camisa
Tryler
Adansonson
A child with one of these names is destined for great things and few shirts! These are awesome.
I have known real life people named (by their parents at birth): Bronco, Bronson, Athena, and Apollo.
Bronco, Apollo, and Athena are siblings.
Quinn is obviously the best name in the world, and it’s unisex. I also love Kieran and Graham. My friend just had a baby and named him Hank and I think that’s just the cutest.
I also like Quinn and Graham
Gregory
And of course Greg for short.
Vincent/Vince
Clark(e)
I’ve always been partial to Adam, Rupert, and Ben.
I also like Oliver, Leonard, and Arthur.
Hell, you can pick any two (one from each row) for his name and middle name.
Ugh, yes yes yes to Rowan. I’ve also loved Lawrence/Laurie, Walter and Gilbert.
ETA: Judah!
ETA Again: Finnegan? Is that too trendy?
Laurie is my fav and Johnny
I’d go for Karl, Joseph or Vladimir, a couple of my faves.
Also I still can’t believe I lived to see the day that Dear Coquette discussed baby names.
Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Putin? You probably didn’t have those guys in mind, but it jumped out at me!
Vladimir Lenin, not Putin !!!! Bravo (and thank you) for getting the joke.
I initially wanted to add Friedrich (Engels) to the mix, but that was too obvious.
Baby names trolling aside, I still stand by these solid proposals.
God, this comments section has refreshed me on why I hate parents.
don’t h8
Nah. I’m gonna.
I don’t understand. What’s there to hate? You don’t have to participate in the slightest. They’re not exhibiting thoughtlessness or ignorance…
Mostly, it’s all the children they have.
Children, furniture, cars, animals…what’s the difference?
Just… so many things.
Hating parents is like hating rain. Equally justified, and useless. My guess is that what you really hate is in you.
Yeah, you sure just shattered my paradigm, bro.
Lin that sounded SO salty
@whoami This part is delicious. Either Lin will become a parent or not. If they become a parent, they will be all of the “just…so many things” that they hate. If not, then there will be a beautiful, hatred shaped hole in them that is the silhouette of a parent that never was and should never be. the icing is that ego’s retort, “you shattered my paradigm bro.” Bwaha. I’m confident that Lin is male, so I am missing the biological clock hormone fantasy I was cooking up. Oh well.
Salty? What are you, twelve?
Also, don’t bolster that confidence too much. I’m a woman in my twenties. I’m sorry that I’m not willing to spend time and explain my decision to not have kids to anons on the internet, it’s just that your opinion means very little to me.
And your decision not to have kids opens this gaping hole through which you pour unfocused hatred towards parents. Yeah, no skin in that game. No issues at all. Just chillin and hatin as naturally as breathing.
Still haven’t heard a reason to hate parents or kids. Even better, haven’t heard a reason why you would spare the time to even comment on people naming their kids.
If you really don’t care…why did you read the fucking comments let alone the post itself?
At least I was wrong about your gender so I can maintain my shitty batting average.
I don’t much care for nuclear family life, but for some reason thinking about names is still really fun to me. I guess because I like thinking about words in general, and names are just a type of word.
When I’m tempted to scoff at today’s trends (superficial Celticism, for instance) and the names not to my own taste, I remember that every generation has its names that seem dated, if not outright silly, in retrospect. In my age cohort, it’s the innumerable Jasons and Jennifers. Sure some of them turned out to be awful, but many turned out great. Among Boomer men, it’s Larry, Gary, Jerry and Barry. Only recently are Millenial women with all the various spellings of Kaitlyn and Brittany beginning to live down the trendiness of their names and be taken seriously as grown-ups. Once upon a time parents thought Bertha and Gladys were lovely names for daughters, now they’re cliche comical stereotype names for “old lady.” Even the recent course correction for “old fashioned” names (at least among middle class whites) will be generational and class markers too, all those Emilies and Emmas and Simons and Samuels, not to mention the masculinist Hunters. And so it goes … Probably centuries ago in old Europe someone was saying, “I think we’ve had enough Gretchens, I prithee!”
I find the name thing to be beautiful because…what is a name? It’s the hopes of expecting parents. It’s the context and meaning that that life builds around it. In a way, a name for a child is impossible. Normally we know what something is or does before we name it. Children are the opposite of that. Usually we name things so that we can “own” them or predict them. Again, children represent something else…potential, and possibility. We name things so they can be referenced by other people, but the most important reference is for the person themself. We name things because both ourselves and the thing we name will be around and require reference. But those names will outlive us. It signifies a beginning and an end. So naming children is one of the most awesome ephemeral acts ever invented.
I was born in the late 60s, and ended up with a first name so trendy that there was *at least* one other person with my same name in every class I had in grade school (the year there were 3 others, two of which had my same last initial? I went by my middle name.) In junior high & high school, it was a little more spread out, but I still was in school with a few dozen others. I’ve had 5 or 6 good friends with my same name, and my brother dated a number of girls with my name (even married one.) And I *know* my mom had no idea how popular it was, she just thought it was pretty.
PLEASE DO NOT NAME YOUR KID A TRENDY/POPULAR/VERY COMMON NAME. I am the voice of lived experience, and let me tell you, it fucking sucks.
There were so many guys named Chris where I worked that we started numbering them. C1-C7. “Go get C-5, he’ll know.”
hey, you’re a cunt
That’s a terrible baby name!
Look in the mirror.
Charles, Edwin, Bjรธrn, Elias, and Espen!
I recommend an app called “Baby Names” from the Apple Store. Dylan and Gabriel are lovely names. I also think Guy, Christian, Victor, and Andrea are Continental European classics.
Eugene. Dmitry. Rory. Patrick. Sebastian (Bass for short, he can be a lax bro). Miles.
Name your kid Hitler so if you kill them it will seem like less of a crime.
Remember this? –
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2152679/New-Jersey-parents-named-children-Adolf-Hitler-Aryan-Nation-back.html
This crosses so many lines. Gross.
Dixon
I named my son Sage. You’re welcome to it!!
hippie.
probably should have realized a fuckload of people would make suggestions. good luck picking just one now.
Atticus!
Having a name that is flexible for nicknames is nice. I have the most boring name in the world which lends itself to no shortening or nicknames. Alexander is a handsome name. I also love the name Jonathan – it means ‘gift from god’.
Yes, it does. Jo, or Ya, is one of the 72 names of God. Nathan is nahtune, which is the past form of the verb “to give.” So it literally means “God gave.
Going to have to put my votes in with Arthur, Alexander, or Sebastian. ๐
Though you may want to consider having a girl name picked out, just in case? I’m pretty sure ultrasounds have advanced in the past couple of decades, but my mom was told my sisters and I were all boys until we were born… (and aunt was told – by a different doctor! – that my male cousin was a girl, so there’s that).
Hadrian. Name him Hadrian.
Love it!
Festivus.
He’ll be for the rest of us!
(Sorry I just couldn’t help myself!)
Chester.
Sifl
Apparently the only thing that gets people more hyped than cat adoption is baby names.
Naming is power.
Vincent, Victor, Valentine
winner names for a winner baby
Re: Your blog must get lots of page views. Why donโt you monetize it? Throw some ads on the site, make some cash.
Ew, gross.
Sam: every day you rise higher in my appreciation. what a totally RIGHT thing to do, and what a perfect response!
from The New Hacker’s Dictionary (http://www.catb.org/jargon/)…
Right Thing /n./
That which is compellingly the correct or appropriate thing to use, do, say, etc. Often capitalized, always emphasized in speech as though capitalized. Use of this term often implies that in fact reasonable people may disagree. “What’s the right thing for LISP to do when it sees (mod a 0)? Should it return a, or give a divide-by-0 error?” Oppose Wrong Thing.
Smith
SO LATE TO THE PARTY but I like the name Grady and haven’t heard it anywhere recently
I think there was a character on the series Justified with the name Grady How about Raylan, he is pretty cool!
Arthur.
Roy.
Basil.
Durham.
My partner has a Reverdy in the ancestry.
Coquette, I think you’ve successfully and thoroughly confused the FUCK out of the person who asked the original question. Instead of a few suggestions to help make their decision, the now get to trawl through five hundred odd suggestions. Wow. Great going.
If the parents-to-be can’t deal with this level of decision-making, that kid’s in deep shit.
This made my fucking day ๐ Being a female with this name is awesome but there is some confusion that happens from time to time. One time in summer camp I got assigned to the boy’s cabins.
Rega chill the fuck out. Couples like these are already used to trawling through lists and databases for cool names and she already gave them a few personal suggestions off the top of her head.
Isaiah hasn’t been mentioned so I thought I’d put that in. I’m sterilized but of course I still have a baby name picked ๐ what’s wrong with me, Coke?
Also, Bernard is an old classy name (and you might have a presidential nominee by then so you can have your 15 minutes of fame in your local paper, when he’s born.)
Late to the party here, but you gotta keep it timeless and simple. Don’t be the jerk parent who insists on naming your child Sibylla because no one will remember the weird Crusade created “royal” lineage of Jerusalem or whatever. Don’t go too old school with the European names either, IMO, because it’s rough going through your life with a name only your immediate relatives can directly pronounce. I say that as a child of a very Irish family lineage whose had a hyper traditional name that made teachers look like they wanted to cry.
Classics are good because they’ve fallen out of style at the moment and they age well as you grow older, like my mom used to say “How are you going to deal with being ‘Braydiin’ at 70?” – Richard (Bonus: as an adult he can ask people to address him as Dick, without irony), Oliver, Matthew, William, Arthur, Henry, Brandon, Thomas, Alexander, Edward or Edmond if you really like Dumas. Or Sue. Coz it builds charachter according to Johnny Cash.
Just don’t name the poor child after a city (especially in Texas), an old timey trade name that would normally be a last name, the first thing you see when you look up from your keyboard, or anything that might make people think you did drugs with Frank Zappa once or many a time.
Miller.
I enjoy surnames for first names. It’s also classic while currently being uncommon.
Congratulations on the baby!
Don’t go with Winston…Winnie is a not great nickname. I like Heath I think because of Lee Majors
Alastair, Callum, Conrad, Samson!
Roland.
How about naming him August? Classic and not too common. Augie and Gus are cute nicknames, too.
Blake, Charlie, Jean.
Rowan is a great suggestion! Although I might be partial, as it’s very similar to Ronan, which is what we named our son. ๐ I feel like it could pose as an option for girls, too.
You should let us know what you went with! Congrats!
Aleister
Atticus
Or hey, August or Augustus.
Basil
Cyril
Come on, you know I’m right…