What should I call my son (due at the end of April)
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'.
The only issue little Megatron will ever face in life is the possibility of an Optimus Prime showing up some day, he's otherwise right on the path to world domination, and who couldn't love that? 😉
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.
My wife won’t let me use “Kaladin,” the name of one of my favorite characters from Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive series. But I think it’s an excellent name and has an easy nickname (Kal).
Call him something you can shorten to Kal. For example, my sister named her kid Callum, but they shorten it to Cal. I know it's because my brother in law is a huge stormlight fan.
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.
Nearly. The first name is pronounced "Chris". Doubt that'll stop a Starfleet captain with a bloodlust for innocent victims of transporter accidents though.
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!
If I may: a good name is good. a name that combines well with the surname is great.
Think of Star Wars names: they are great because they mate good names and surnames.
Han Solo
Boba Fett
Cassian Andor
etc...
That said, my personal preference is something REALLY old, like Sargon, first ruler of Akkadian Empire, 2400BC.
Bonus He/she/they could have also their own personal cuneiform name tattoo: 𒊬𒊒𒄀. Now tell me that's not cool.
In the New York tri-state area there was a well-known TV meteorologist named Frank Field. He had a son whom he named "Storm". A bit on the nose if you ask me. Also, Storm went on to become a TV meteorologist himself.
I'm having a daughter at the end of April. We plan on calling her Dylan. You should name him Dylan then they would have a random stranger twin situation.
I'll list a few that seem interesting to me. I have no idea whether they have religious origins, but they sound cool phonetically.
Felix
Soren
Ethan
Kai
Rowan
Alex
Isaac
Levi
Nico
Kit
Anakin
River
Logan
Ari
Ian
I don't know if those names would be appropriate for your area or culture or language or even laws, so I just provided a whole bunch in case a couple aren't suitable.
Isaac is a great pick as it can allude to Isaac Asimov, the father of robotics. Jules could also work for OP as Jules Verne is widely known as the father of science fiction.
I can think of a few modern Indian names like Prem (love), Vishal (tall), Manav (human, pronounce muh-nuv), Jai (victory, pronounced jayh), Niral (calm, serene), Ratan (jewel, pronounced rut-un), Bhavya (unique), Ashwin (beautiful), Simha (lion) and Dhruv/Dhruva (northern sky).
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)
My kids are hyphenated too; consider the rhythm of the name while you are choosing, the accents - mine all ended up with some 5 syllable combination of first & middle name to fit a 4 syllable last name because of the pleasant sound. My thoughts, since you like sci fi, break some of your rules but not obvious I think. Mostly I think 3 syllables will probably work better, maybe 2 but a very short name will not stand up to a long last name! Say the whole name together when you are choosing.
Jean-Luc
Constantine
Artemis
Necdet
Lucasinho
Cassian
I also really like @[email protected] list, those are solid, good sounding, conventional enough but not boring.
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.
I think trying to draw a distinction between religious names and secular names is an exercise in futility. I have a New Testament name despite being an atheist with atheist parents. They just liked the way it sounded, and it's one of the most common first names in the US. Is it a religious name? Not to me!