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What should I call my son (due at the end of April) (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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'.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Burlsby

Yipperdoddle

The Kruntz

[–] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Niv Mizzet, Dracogenius

[–] Masamune@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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)

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Phillip is a perfectly respectable name, but who do you think you are to suggest a sith lord as an honorable mention name?

[–] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Rodney, after Dave.

[–] focusforte@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Freddy

[–] skybreaker@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Daenerys

[–] quackers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Daniel

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[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Call him? Or name him? How many syllables in the complicated last name?

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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[–] pepperprepper@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Titus

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Emmett

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[–] fhek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So… it’s almost April. You really gonna name the kid Wash?

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

We're probably going with something from Battlestar Galactica.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Remnar.
Arcturus.
Alphonso.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

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"?

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