For a boy:
Nicolas
Matthew
Michael
Zachary
Don’t forget to give the baby a second name. When he’s a teen, he needs a chance to rebel by having people call him by that name.
LOL!
Sorry to disagree, but I don’t think of Sidney, especially spelled with an ‘i’, as a girl’s name. I think, if anything, it’s gender neutral, like Chris or Pat, except that the spelling is a dead giveaway, ameliorating confusion.
Sidney = boy
Sydney = girl
Worked out pretty well for me.
Nikita would be a top choice of mine, though it reminds me of Khrushchev. But I’m sure there were/are a bunch of other Nikitas that are worth being named after.
Demetri is also an excellent name. I’m thinking about the guy that does the “trends” skit on The Daily Show.
Or Niels after Neils Bohr, the great Danish physicist.
If I ever have a boy, I hope to name him Graydon, after my grandfather. Its always struck me as a cool name.
Don’t be scared of an unconventional or foreign spelling. I wouldn’t give up Niklas in order to be Nicholas, even though I have to tell people how to spell it all the time. Its unusual, yet not absurdly so, and it helps differentiate you from the crowd. Plus its a nice bit of casual chitchat.
Here’s one I would use, but don’t plan to have kids. I was amused by the fairly recent trend of naming kids “Brooklyn”. So i thought about other New York City-centric names that might actually be good (not Bronx!) and came up with:
Richmond.
As a former New Yorker, I have learned that non-NYers don’t even know what Staten Island is, let alone that it’s Richmond County. So you won’t have to explain it to everyone. Plus it can be shortened to Rich.
I’m having a girl, but if he were a boy he’d have been Duncan.
Matthew, Timothy, David or Christopher.
Boys
Avery
Andrew
Garnet
Matthew
Girls
Nina
Maya
Charlotte
Elizabeth
I love my name, Gwendolen, but I don’t want it to get overused! OK, there’s probably not much chance of that, so go for it!
If you call your boy Sue, he’s already got his own song!
I think it’s a shame that Algernon has gone out of fashion too.
:o
I said this before THIS happened!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_en_ce/people_simpson_wentz_2
Seriously…Bronx Mowgli? That poor kid is going to have a hard time not beating the crap out of himself for his horrid name, let alone being worried that other people are going to tease him for it.
Sebastian (Sebastian Atticus is my all time favorite first/middle combo)
Tad (I prefer Taddeo, but you’d have a rhyming first and last name)
Toby / Tobias / Tobin
Jasper
Kirby
Barnaby
Names that the kid would spend their life spelling for people:
Dashiell
Blaise (pronounced Blaze)
St. John (Sinjin)
Torsten
Rui (the Spanish pronunciation = Roo-ee)
Elizabeth for a girl.
Charles for a boy.
A boy in my son’s first grade class is named Hugo. The first time I heard the name it really threw me. I mean, who names their kid Hugo? Funny thing is, the more I hear it, the more it grows on me. I’m to the point now where I love the name. Not sure how well it will go with your last name, but it is unusual without being contrived.
Dear god that’s actually worse than mommies in the midwest who call their poor kids Brooklynn, Camden and Trenton.
His first name really should be The rather than Bronx because it is the Bronx afterall.