Hipster baby name list

mrsconn23

http://thestir.cafemom.com/pregnancy/162282/100_totally_amazing_hipster_baby

Also, I saw a name yesterday.  Juliyanna

It was on the Hobby Lobby name tag of a girl at Panera.

dharmabunny

Eyelet. Hipster douche.

Oface4eva

I don't know whether to be entertained or enraged. 

thejucheidea

'Amazing' and 'hipster' should never be used in the same phrase.

AuntFlo

Is it bad that I like most of the girl names?   A couple of them were on our list for naming DD.  #23 was one of my favorites and if for some reason we have another little girl, that will likely be her name.  <--- alternate universe where I have lots of kids...

VarunaTT

I'm not sure I really agree with this list.  Some of those names are just classics that are coming back into vogue.  Which, yay! quite frankly.  

And some of them are literary characters that I recognize as part of my peer group and younger.  I mean, we all studied To Kill A Mockingbird in school and for some people, it's meaningful, so why is Atticus "hipster"?  Some are television characters that fill the same niche...Blaire and Facts of Life anyone?

When I think of hipsters, I think of more the "cutesy" spellings or choosing names that have never been unisex to be unisex.  Also, going outside of your own language or ethnicity to choose a name so that it's unique aka Dries.

AuntFlo

^^^ I totally agree with you, Varuna. ^^^

The only girls name I really dislike is Eyelet.

There were a few boys names that I rolled my eyes at (Elvis? Really?) and I snorted at Django. 

mrsconn23

I definitely paused at Django.  Really hipsters?  Really?!

VarunaTT

Django is just a fail, no matter which movie you picked up the name from.

AuntFlo

Django is from more than one movie?

emmyg65

I guess if you really liked music, I could see Elvis (Presley or Costello), Django (Reinhart) or Arlo (Guthrie). Though I still think they're all kind of silly first names. This is what middle names are for!

VarunaTT

@auntflo:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_(film)

A useless bit of trivia in my head re: violent films

@emmyg65 You know, I didn't think of Django Reinhardt.

hmonkey

emmyg65 said:

I guess if you really liked music, I could see Elvis (Presley or Costello), Django (Reinhart) or Arlo (Guthrie). Though I still think they're all kind of silly first names. This is what middle names are for!

no one -- NO ONE -- ever Ever EVER will believe you if you say your child is named after django reinhart. everyone will think it is after django and be all "the d is silent" 4eva.

source: i wanted to name my child "gray." it was a year before "50 shades of gray" came out.  thank you Lord Jesus on High that dh was all "no to the way to the jose" and shut it down. 

dharmabunny

Django and Beatrix. FFS stop with the Quintin Tarantino frottage, mmmkay.

I guess hipsters also stop reading past high school and can't find anything transformative beyond that. Since the boy name list looks like a dumping ground of high school lit characters.

mrsconn23

Tarantino is the ultimate hipster douchebag. 

VarunaTT

Dharma, I don't think that's fair.  I've read plenty past high school, but I read more transformative books in high school, or younger, than any other time.  

College had a lot reading, but there weren't characters from those readings that stayed with me or were influences on such a emotional level (there weren't characters at all, just theorists and commentators and studies).  And reading like that as an adult has been few and far between, since I tend to gravitate towards books that are fun to read, not necessarily deep thinking.

VarunaTT

Beatrix Potter.  And Beatrix is an very old fashioned name.

This is why this list is balls.  Hipster: Juniper? Eyelet? Dries?  Yes.  A lot of the others?  Not so much.

PMeg819

Kale is a motherfucking food not a baby name. That being said, I like some of the girl names. We're still undecided on a name so maybe I'll run some of these by DH.

VarunaTT

Kale to me is hipster, b/c it's just a cutesy misspelling of Cale.  Like using the "y" instead of "i" or "e".

PMeg819

Cale is just someone who misspelled the food "kale".

VarunaTT

No it's not.

hmonkey

yes it is.

VarunaTT

thejucheidea

Did anyone look at the names in the comments section? My husband and I stared the most at Kaydence, Americus, Jaydence, Wakefield, Augustus, Juniper, Paizlee, Izryal, Jazarah, Mianna, Meadowlark, Custis, Phoenyx, and motherfucking Tsunami.

TSUNAMI.

WHO DOES THAT.

VarunaTT

I hate the names I have to sound out.  Izryal?  Really?  Name him Gargamel, get it over with.

And Tsunami is just...wow.

hmonkey

WAKEFIELD.  WAKEFIELD?  WAKEFIELD. THAT NAME IS AWESOME.

DixieNormous330

GAH! DD's name made it to the list!

thejucheidea

Yeah, a name I like is on there too, but at least our favorite name for a girl didn't make the list. There is hope yet for when we spawn.

jojobrn

I know of a Magnolia coming into the world shortly. They aren't horrid, but some of them, Kale included, come on.

futurepastorswife

Magnolia is on our girl name list but that is because i like names that are southern, Savannah and Georgia are also on our list and and I was talked out of Biloxi Rose because apparently its a stripper name (no offense to any strippers)...

PirateBarbie

Wolverine has a classmate named Kale. I don't know which one he is, but I want to junkpunch his parents so they don't do that to another kid.