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’.
Egon
Dax
Ash
Declan
Dana
Kira
Miles
Leland
Zhora
Keeping the rule of shorter first name with longer/complicated last name, I picked a few from my future pet possibility list. Pets names at our house generally have sci-fi origins.
Odo
Bashir
Samanthan
…
Perhaps something gender neutral in case they wish to change their gender or name later in life
I am not trans or anything, but I expected that most would want a name change to move away from their old identity or something.
I have a Dutch friend who did this.
Named their child or changed their gender?
Chose gender neutral names on the off chance one of them was trans.
yes
The friend’s gender or the child’s gender?
Lemmy McLemmyface
OP may have made a tactical error asking this on the internet
There are no bad suggestions.
I see, I seem to have missed submitting mine then.
They aren’t leaving it to a vote though.
I hope this wins
I’m very partial to early bronze age names.
Epirmupi
Manishtushu
Tiglath
Inshushinak
Labarna
Naramsin
If you look at the Sumerian or Elamite king lists, you really can’t go wrong.
Manishtushu is nearly the worst name i have ever seen. Kids would absolutely wreck that guy all the way to college.
People are going to make fun of the conqueror of Anshan, King of Kish, Ruler of Sumer and Akkad? That seems unlikely to me.
Man-ish tush-u. It aint hard to see why the kid would grow to hate his name.
He’ll have to get tough or die
Bill or George or anything but Manishtushu, I still hate that name!
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Y u no Ea-Nasir
As soon as I saw bronze age I thought of old Ea-Nasir, was very surprised he wasn’t the point of this reply.
Qrs Tuvwxyz.
Careful with that, might catch Captain Janeway’s attention (I’m imagining it pronounced Quisses Tuvwiks).
Nearly. The first name is pronounced “Chris”. Doubt that’ll stop a Starfleet captain with a bloodlust for innocent victims of transporter accidents though.
A great name if you want your son to go into the business of forks and marbles.
And, I’ve just found out, very easy to remember how to spell.
If it’s a long complicated surname you can’t go wrong with a short simple first name. I’m gonna throw Sam into the ring, after our lord and saviour Samwise.
Gotta always go with the classics. Steve, Bob, Phil
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.
- Latitude
- Avalanche
- Glacier
Darker than I thought.
cornbread
Bless your heart!
Slartibartfast?
We do live in a country with nice crinkley edges.
Jimothy?
Billiam?
Tedward?
I believe you have been watching too many Dr. Glaucomflecken videos, my friend.
I don’t know what that is, but now I feel like I should find out.
Update: I found it. I know nothing about being a doctor, but he’s still funny.
Hahaha, he’s great. Jimothy is one of his most common side characters. And he uses your naming convention for lots of his other side characters. Jimothy, Todrick, etc.
I wish my parents named me Tedward
What about my favourite, ‘HM Revenue and Customs’
Homer
Bartholomew
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‘Marge: What about Bart? Homer: Let’s see. Bart, dart, cart, e-art. Nope can’t see any problems with that.’
Morge
Corl
Chungus
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!