What should I call my son (due at the end of April)
What should I call my son (due at the end of April)
Im having difficulty finding names I like. I need two - three names that roll off the tongue and wouldn't be out of place with a long hyphenated surname.
No religious names
No surnames
No places
Nothing that rhymes with Aden
Upvote good suggestions otherwise post ones. Bonus points if it's a sci-fi name.
Edit: lots of good suggestions, but I think I'm going with 'Wash'.
I would either go with a easy to remember naming system, something like child_male_0000, or with a type 4 UUID, to avoid naming collisions.
I hope you don't go with your edit.
There are some decent TNG names that aren't easily identifiable as sci-fi if he grows up not liking the genre. Will Riker, Wesley Crusher, Miles O'Brien, etc.
In Star Wars, Obi-wan is initially known to Luke as Ben Kenobi. You can also pull from actor names too. Liam Neeson played Qui-Gon Jinn.
Depending on what IPs you like and what names you lean towards, maybe look into character/actor names from Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Ender's Game, Mass Effect, Terminator, or whatever else strikes your fancy.
If sci-fi isn't mandatory, there are great secular names alluding to nature, minerals/elements, and the cosmos, such as Heath, Flint, and Cosmo respectively. Just keep in mind that whatever you are choosing for him, he has to either live with forever or go through the headache of a legal name change if he hates it. So I would shy away from naming him something too out there like Betelgeuse or Eagle or Hurricane. Maybe if you have any sort of cultural ties, you can allude to that on some level by using a translation to your ancestors' language or something like that. For example, if you're sorta distantly Hispanic and wanted to allude to that without being as obvious as choosing Juan or Jose or something like that, "oak tree" translates to "Roble". River is Rio, Brook is Arroyo, etc.
I'm surprised that you're asking the internet and expecting reasonable answers instead of just Omega Fartwagon Supreme. Good luck!
Pubert!
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Chungus
If I may: a good name is good. a name that combines well with the surname is great. Think of Star Wars names: they are great because they mate good names and surnames. Han Solo Boba Fett Cassian Andor etc...
That said, my personal preference is something REALLY old, like Sargon, first ruler of Akkadian Empire, 2400BC. Bonus He/she/they could have also their own personal cuneiform name tattoo: π¬ππ. Now tell me that's not cool.
good hunting.
Meredith.
After Meredith McKay.
Chevron with Techron
Wu-Tang Dan
Spaghetti Joe
Emma 2: The Awakening
Shamelessly copied from the wonderful Obvious Plant.
Kelsier
Dalinar
Raoden
The Captain."The-Original [Long-Hyphenated-surname]"
It's time to bring back Horace.
I'll list a few that seem interesting to me. I have no idea whether they have religious origins, but they sound cool phonetically.
Felix Soren Ethan Kai Rowan Alex Isaac Levi Nico Kit Anakin River Logan Ari Ian
I don't know if those names would be appropriate for your area or culture or language or even laws, so I just provided a whole bunch in case a couple aren't suitable.
Hope this helps.
Frodo
Dexter
Chalupa Batman.
Sci fi? Roger that! Best I got is:
Velith
Jack
Thomas
Mario
Edit: Wait, that's not a surname, right?
Brodo (after Brodo Swaggins)
You already have a bunch of suggestions, here are a few more of my favorite sci-fi names/characters that I didn't see...
Hari / Salvor (both from Asimov's Foundation series) Rico (from Heinlein's Starship Troopers) Leto / Duncan (both from Herbert's Dune) Ender (from Card's Ender's Game series) Filip (from Corey's The Expanse series)
Honorable mentions Fry (Futurama) Jar-Jar (Binks)
Chaos Zweihander +5
Xerc Owz
KonstantynopolitaΕczykowianeczka
Constantine?
Morty
I don't have any suggestions myself but this site might help.
Batman Bin Suparman.
Daenerys
How about Medium Chungus
Snagg
Hompy
HorsuuTitus
Burlsby
Yipperdoddle
The Kruntz
Name him whatever your great grandfather's middle name is.
Niv Mizzet, Dracogenius
Hingle
Recently I am partial to the nameοΌ Arthur
Rodney, after Dave.
My wife and I ended up having a girl, but the names we were thinking of if we had a boy were Apollo or Layton. Those probably don't need your criteria, but just throwing it out there!
Payton, Dayton, Craydon, Haden, Mark, Matthew, Luke, John, aaaand Moses!
Here's for something that actually fits: Thorkild (silent d, and th can be a t) meaning the arrow of Thor.
I don't think that it would be a good idea, but how about "The Doctor"?
Freddy
Remnar.
Arcturus.
Alphonso.Name trends tend to skip generations. So if you look to the names of your grandparents generation and use them, there'll be loads of them old names in their class at school.
