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

Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 64 points –

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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Lemmy McLemmyface

OP may have made a tactical error asking this on the internet

Megatron

  • Not religious
  • Not a surname
  • Not a place
  • Doesn't rhyme with Aden
  • Is a sci-fi name

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? 😉

Although, they'll call him Meg for short

The Autobots still haven't stopped Sunny Megatron so the kid will probably be ok.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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Jimothy?

Billiam?

Tedward?

I wish my parents named me 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.

Agree with others who have suggested short names. Here's 3, inspired by one guy!

Paul

Kyle

Dale

(I appreciate that Paul is in the Bible, but still...)

Paul: What do you call the mouse shadow in the second moon?

Stilgar: We call that one Muad'Dib.

Paul: Could I be known as Paul Muad'Dib?

Stilgar: You are Paul Muad'Dib!

Alex. Simple, gender neutral, not religious (I don't think), not a surname, not a place, doesn't rhyme with Aden.

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 have a Dutch friend who did this.

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.

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!

Stormageddon.

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.

What about my favourite, ‘HM Revenue and Customs’

Qrs Tuvwxyz.

A great name if you want your son to go into the business of forks and marbles.

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.

Eowen, it means "Bear God"... unless that's too religious.

Arthur and Beowolf are also bear names, if so.

Meredith.

After Meredith McKay.

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.

good hunting.

IDK, does Thor or Odin count as a religious name? I always thought Yoda could work as a name.

On the completely awful side, why not Krys?

Trogdor?

I too vote Trogdor bonus points for middle name Burninator

Chevron with Techron

Wu-Tang Dan

Spaghetti Joe

Emma 2: The Awakening

Shamelessly copied from the wonderful Obvious Plant.

I like the name Robert, because it can be shortened to Rob, or Robby or Bob or Bobby. And it means "bright fame." Tom is also a good name, and William or Bill.

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.

Hope this helps.

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'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.

sci-fi name

James Tiberius (Kirk), Geordi (LaForge), Worf, Gul (Dukat), William (Reiker), Odo, Neelix

Duke (Nukem), Eli (Vance), Gordon (Freeman)

Non religious is pretty hard, but non biblical is way easier. BTW, you mean English names?

My wife and I ended up having a girl, but the names we were thinking of if we had a boy were Apollo or Layton. Those probably don't need your criteria, but just throwing it out there!

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)

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

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Name him whatever your great grandfather's middle name is.

Daniel

That would be a religious name. As I remember it was the guy who played with the lions.

Or do you mean the Stargate guy?

Then I think the name is approved as dual-use.

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!

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

5

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 @SethranKada@lemmy.ca 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.

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"?