I guess you could call her “Laddie,” but that would be a bit confusing. 
I rather like Ahtahkakoop or Astrophel or Odtsetseg. Better than Lester, anyway.
I’m generally against the idea of having a “theme” for your kids names, unless your culture or family has a tradition of doing so (like the Chinese tradition of having all sons share the same middle name). It might sound clever at first, but you and the kids will get sick of explaining it. And it’s too much like you think of your kids only as a set, not as separate individuals.
The form of this where all your kids’ first names start with the same initial is just cruel, especially if you have a lot of kids. My grandmother had five kids, and she did that. Mr. Neville can’t keep it straight which uncle is which on that side of my family.
Gilly, as anyone who’s read The Great Gilly Hopkins could tell you.
If friends of mine named their boy Lester, he would get a tiny silver sow as a insert-naming-ceremony-of-choice present.
Only a cruel parent would name a son Lester, IMHO. Any child’s first name should (1) be pleasing to the ear, (2) be easily spellable, so that he doesn’t have to spell it letter by letter for other people for the rest of his life, and (3) not get the kid beat up or teased by other kids. Bonus points if it also (4) has some family, historic, ethnic or regional significance.
Name him Lucas. Lucas means ‘light’ or ‘bringer of light’ so the meaning is very similar. Your kids’ names would mean ‘star’ and ‘light’. Starlight 
Plus Stella sounds good with Lucas.
One who didn’t like being pantsed? 
Elrond is kind of a double misfortune in that people who don’t understand it’s the name of a Lord of the Rings character will probably think it’s the name of the guy who founded Scientology. That’d be worse than having some kids think your parents are nerds.
I’ve met a Galadrielle myself. Born in the '60s, which until recently would have been the best time to have an LOTR name, I think.
I just seem to recall that generally, the kids that “deserved” to get picked on, were the ones that did, and their name was incidental. If they “deserved” it, and they had an unusual name, they’d make fun of it, otherwise, the most I remember was the occassional prod for an unusual name. But you may have a fair point, as I don’t have kids, so my memories may not be particularly accurate.
It just seems sort of odd to me though that a lot of the common names now are the sorts of names I could have imagined being made fun of when I was a kid, with all the creative spellings and such. If we go by how much a kid will get teased, then we really shouldn’t ever stray from whatever the common names are, because kids will make fun of uncommon names too. Instead, I’d say perhaps use it as a tie breaker, if you like two names and one is less easily made fun of than the other, okay. Then again, kids will be creative and probably find something in it anyway.
It’s not bizarre in that it is an established name and not just a combination of syllables or the name of a Japanese detergent or something. That’s true. On the other hand it’s become very rare. In 2009 it was not one of the 1,000 most popular boys’ names in the U.S. and hasn’t been there any time in the last 10 years. I don’t know exactly how many Lesters were born last year, but it was fewer than 200. That made it less popular than Juelz, Deegen, Zavion, Tyshawn, and Eliezer to name a few. The last time it was in the top 1,000 was 1999, when the world was blessed with 165 Lesters. It was tied with Donnie (not Donald, Donnie), Jeff (not Jeffrey), Judah, Kennedy, Myron, Rick, Sonny, and Vance.
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That’s all I was implying. That no one is going to look at Lester and wonder if it’s a “real” name or not. It’s simply uncommon and doesn’t generally fit with our current culture. By bizarre, I meant when parents seemingly make up names. At least an established name like Lester can point back to other people with that name, but naming your kid Blanket… not so much.
Perhaps, I have known at least on boy with that name, and there was one of the pivotal characters in the Underworld movies with that name as well. I’ve never known a girl by that name, though I did know a Lucina and a Lucinda. Admittedly, I may have picked a feminine spelling, as I don’t recall how the male version is generally spelled.
My main point, which I probably didn’t articulate well, wasn’t so much that it was a fantastic name that he should use, but that if the theme is important, he can do variations on a theme, and I think “moon” fits well with “star”. Other similar meanings might be something like “sky”, “light”, or really whatever other direction he wants to take the theme. Basically, if he’s going with names that have L and ST in it, and mean “star”, he’s going to have very limited choices, but if he broadens the theme a little, he can increase his options a lot.
This is a much better idea than mine was. It’s a variation on the theme, still has similar sounds, and even passes the test that so many others objected to with Lester, as it is a well established and reasonably common name.
Yeah, I’ve never seen a feminine version of that, but then again, I don’t go to movies all that much. Maybe “Lucan”? I like “Lucius,” too (which might have something to do with the fact that I think Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies is pretty darn hot!) but that might be a little much for a kid. You could probably shorten it to “Luke” or “Luc” (like Jean-Luc), but he’d still probably get “Lucy.”
Incredibly, (since we are pushing forty,) my two oldest friends had little girls around the same time, with no more than five months between any of them. Serendipitously, they are Isla, Luna, and Stella. There is plenty of ready imagery for their play dates.
Plus, daddy is a Star Wars nerd. Unfortunately, “Luc” has already been vetoed as too-common-in-Quebec.
Lester the Rat.
No.
Tarvek.
Or Klaus.
English is my first language, but I have no idea what this sentence means.
I know someone named Lucian and he’s a cool guy. I’m pretty sure it means “light”.
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I concur.
The closest I can think of, and it’s still pretty nerdy, is Leonard, but you could call him “Leo” so it wouldn’t be TOO bad. But it definitely wouldn’t be my first choice.
What about Liam?
So what are you going to call this kid?
Lester, of course. 
I think the specter of “Lester” has been sufficiently dissuasive, so far.
Me and my big mouth. Arrived at a compromise tonight and will try for another in March.
“Lester” is still off the table, but any other suggestions for boy names are welcome. (Still hoping for another girl; I have no idea what I’d do if I ended up with a kid with typical boys’ interests.)