Hipster baby name list

mrsconn23 · October 2013

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 · October 2013

Eyelet. Hipster douche.

Oface4eva · October 2013

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

thejucheidea · October 2013

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

AuntFlo · October 2013

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 · October 2013

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 · October 2013

^^^ 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 · October 2013

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

VarunaTT · October 2013

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

AuntFlo · October 2013

Django is from more than one movie?

emmyg65 · October 2013

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 · October 2013

@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 · October 2013

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 · October 2013

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 · October 2013

Tarantino is the ultimate hipster douchebag.

VarunaTT · October 2013

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 · October 2013

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 · October 2013

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 · October 2013

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 · October 2013

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

VarunaTT · October 2013

No it's not.

hmonkey · October 2013

yes it is.

VarunaTT · October 2013

thejucheidea · October 2013

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 · October 2013

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

And Tsunami is just...wow.

hmonkey · October 2013

WAKEFIELD. WAKEFIELD? WAKEFIELD. THAT NAME IS AWESOME.

DixieNormous330 · October 2013

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

thejucheidea · October 2013

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 · October 2013

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

futurepastorswife · October 2013

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 · October 2013

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.

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