When the mother of all hipster mommy bloggers, Heather Armstrong aka Dooce, named her second daughter Marlo, all I could think was…..Marlo? Really? You’d have to work hard to find a less hipsterish name, and Dooce herself has said she was inspired to choose the name by its original bearer, That Girl actress and Free to Be You and Me author Marlo Thomas, not exactly a hipster icon.
So I was thinking about how true hipsters would by definition search for names that were not pegged as hipster, when I came across a nameberry forum launched by the ever-brilliant Susan Chesney, called Outhip the Hipsters.
“What names are even more edgy and nerdy-cool than the Hipster List?,” Susan writes in the introduction to her thread. Rule #1, says Susan: The names on the Outhip the Hipsters list cannot be on the Hipsters list or be enthusiastically endorsed on Nameberry.
Over the next 50 posts, dozens of the nameberry resident geniuses added their own entries to the Outhip the Hipsters list. I’ve reclassified many of the name suggestions below, plus added some of my own.
Here, names that may Outhip the Hipsters:
RISING HIPSTER NAMES
The choices below are rising quickly through the hipster ranks and may soon be so hip they’re not hip anymore.
girls
boys
GEEKIER CHIC
Geek chic names like Mabel and Oscar are established hipster choices. These take the concept further.
girls
boys
EXOTIC HIPSTERS
Some international choices qualify as hipster, as long as they’re not too elaborately Eurotrashy.
girls
boys
HIPSTER HEROES
Hip heroes, real and fictional, provide worthy inspiration for hipster baby names.
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I love a lot of these names, such as:
August 20th, 2009 at 1:05 am
Yeah, Outhip the Hipsters! How exciting to see this blog that I helped to inspire. And how cool that so many Nameberry posters added more and more names to the list. Of course I love a bunch of the names, especially Herman, Bernard, Bernice, and Lucille. Fun, fun, fun!