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Boring first name (after my dad), fun middle name that we can use every day... He will only get called by his full name when he's in trouble. That's how we ended up with James Fox 🙂
Xeon might work, maybe nomad
Not so sure about duster, equilibrium and scale
Aggressor definitely won't do...!
Liking Car theme too, Morgan is now on the list.
Wife appears to be waiting for me to create a list so she can go through it. She has some names, but won't tell me them till I do my list. What's the bets I spend all this time agonising and she has already made her mind up?
Quite like kona actually. Any other ideas of "acceptable" bike based names?
Not sure Kona is acceptable if he intends travelling to Portuguese speaking countries.
I also like the surgery test to check the non Jeremy Kyleness of names. Just say out loud "hello my name's xxx xxxx and I'll be performing your surgery tomorrow". If your gut response is "no you won't", pick a different name.
And once you've decided on the name. Google it
Just to check your offspring isn't going to be named after a dictator, adult performer or paedophile
My next born would be called Thor. Seriously.My sons middle name is Fox.
Both motocross clothing brands. Be interesting to see how many more kids you could name before you got down to Alpinestars
I was introduced to a little girl called Scarlett and asked if she was named after the Gone With the Wind character. She was. That resulted in Ashley, also in the room turning round and saying him, and his siblings Melanie and Eugenie were named after the same film. Seems like the way forward to me (having never had children); I'm thinking Pulp Fiction offers up some excellent choices like Zed and Butch and my personal favourite Esmeralda.
Wife and I had a shortlist to choose from. We wanted solid proper names (not brands or grape varieties or countries, with due respect to those that chose that route). The first was easy, we both loved one girl's name but couldn't decide between three boy's ones, and then thankfully had a girl. Polly (which I liked because it's PJ Harvey's name)
The second was the other way, two girl's names and one boy's. But on arriving at the delivery suite, the friends of the hospital's book trolley was in the corridor. Expecting a bit of a wait, i had a quick browse but the book on top was a clear and obvious decision maker. The book is now in our memento drawer and will be given to her when she gets married. Born Free, daughter #2 is of course Elsa. Born in 2006, so well before Frozen, but it has become a bit of a curse currently!!
I lived in a tee-pee for a while, so adopted a traditional native american approach of naming the child after the first thing that I saw after emerging from the tee-pee following the birth.
My daughter Running Water is pretty happy, and my oldest son Howling Wolf is equally happy, my youngest son Two Dogs Humping, not such a well adjusted young man...
I was at University with a genuine "Benjamin Downe", he hated his parents!!
Thing 1 and Thing 2.
Pick something that has unambiguous spelling. I'm always telling people there is only one R in my name - wasn't important until email came along. Two syllable names pass the doorstop test better than one.
Ben is a dog's name. Thomas is timeless. Don't marry a primary school teacher - every name will have an association, usually bad!