Cool Names: What’s quirky got to do with it?

Casimir, Thaddeus and Winston are all on my shorter list Love them!

I had so many teachers in elementary school (French school in Canada) whose first names were Manon I just cannot picture it on a child!

I love some of the other names though like Cressida and Keturah.

Love Circe, Minerva, Romilly, Casimir, Leopold, Reuben and Thaddeus!

Should be pointed out Malou is also used for boys and is not necessarily a diminutive for other names, there have been two male Saint Malous

Claude sounds lovely when said in French, but if I was a girl in an English speaking country with the name Claude I would hate it. To me it sounds horrible in English.

I have really been loving Minerva lately, with the nickname Minnie. I love it even more with the Harry Potter connection. Minerva McGonagall was awesome! My husband would never love it though.

For the boys I love Leopold, Ludovic, and Winston.

Love Leopold; Cressida and Minerva are both growing on me.

I love Cressida, Keturah and Minerva, and Winston, Reuben and Leopold.

I think Caspian is quirky and cool.

I love Mannix (my son’s name) for a boy and Nico/Neko for a girl.

I also think Vespa has a sleek charm to it, but my hubby would never go it!

I’m familiar with Malo for a boy so think Malou for a girl is very pretty.

Aah! I love the name Otis so much. I’ve been trying to convince my husband of this and I think he might actually be coming around!

Romilly is on my super short list for a girl, and my sons are Cashel (similar to Casimir in sound) and Torin. Love quirky cool names!

Amedea is great but I’m in love with Medea. I think it’s even a name my nearly 8-year-old daughter approves of. And she lets me know when I mention a name that’s, in her words “Just weird!”

Also in the 8-year-old’s book of cool names: Imogen, Archer (because of what an archer is, she thinks that’s pretty cool).

Also, she thinks Jaxon is a terrible way to spell Jackson and people should stop doing it. I agree, but she came up with that on her own – a little nameberry already, lol. What have I created?!

For the girls I’d add Xyla, Artemis, Psyche, Zenobia and Araminta, and for boys I’d add Caspian, Lorcan, Errol and Finnick.

Love seeing Circe on the list!

I’m a traditionalist so most of those names don’t appeal to me. I find Damian and Helen much “cooler” than Manon and Gulliver. But I do love Thaddeus.

I want another baby girl so I can name her Minerva!!!

Hmm, not a big fan of the girls names. But on the boys list, I love Otis and Winston!!

My daughter’s name, Leonie, made the list! Guess I’m ‘cool’ lol. But really not much else on the girl list appeals to me..besides way too similar Ione.

I don’t like Manon or Gulliver (bitter and glutton?) but I do love Amedea, Cosima, Keturah, Azariah, and Casimir. I love Ket as a nickname for Keturah, maybe Miro for Casimir? I’m not sure about nicknaming a boy Cas, it seems like people would think of Cassie, short for Cassandra if you did that.

Back in the late 70s when I was a little girl, my babysitter was named Cressida. Her college-aged brother was named Orpheus. As an adult, I can see the coolness of both, but my family laughed for years about what weird names they were.

I really like Cressida now, as well as Romilly, Ivan, Reuban, Thaddeus, and Otis.

Though I probably would never use any of these names, I love the variety and uniqueness of this list :3 Romilly, Thaddeus, Leopold, and Monroe are all super cool (though I kind of really like Monroe on a girl, a la Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon)!

And speaking of Jaycyn (ick), I just heard of triplets named Jaydin (b), Jerzee (g), and Journee (g). I am so sad right now.

Girls: Flavia; Romola; Madlenka
Boys: Milo; Lorenzo (yes, I know Snooky just used it); Sebastian

I definitely think when it comes to quirky/cool opinions are going to differ pretty vastly. I think a lot of times they are names that you either love or hate (and I have to admit I hate a lot of the ones you listed in the post-haha!).

I love this post. Romilly is on my list!

I’m so glad to see Keturah on this list! Ever since I found it on my family tree, I’ve been hoping it will get some attention. My ancestor’s name was Keturah Follet, and I’m very tempted to re-use her name, it just sounds so nice to me. (: She also had an aunt named Kezia and a brother named Otis.

Other than Keturah, I love Circe, Cressida, Ione, Ivan, Lazarus, and Monroe.

In theory I really like Circe but now I just think of the Circe from “Game of Thrones” and that give a beautiful name a huge negative mark in my register.

I happen to like a good number of the names on the boys list today.  My own sons’ names very well might be considered, by some, to fit into this quirky-cool category.  Notwithstanding, I think this blog entry is pretentious, condescending and outright rude.  

I’ve always loved Manon! My surname starts with Man-, though, and it goes horribly with my husband’s surname. Love this category of name.

Love Manon, Amadea (prefer this spelling), Cosima, Cressida, Ione, Minerva and Vesper for girls. Gulliver, Casimir, Ivan, Lazarus, Oberon and Thaddeus for boys. Also love pp’s suggestions of Xyla, Artemis, Psyche, Zenobia, Caspian, Errol, Lorcan, Romola, Lorenzo and the Orpheus mention. Orpheus is wonderful!

Further suggestions might be Calixta, Philomena, Alba, Leto and Tesla for girls, along with Dmitri, Rupert, Jules, Ignatius and Moses for boys.

My FIL is named Ivan and we strongly considered it for our son. But it was a bit *too* quirky for us. I love Reuben!

I’d add Lincoln for a boy and Cordelia for a girl

For boys Zanzibar, Ajax, Absalom and Solomon and for girls probably Constantina, Esperanza and Florentina

I love Vesper!!! It’s so pretty! Leonie and Monroe are cool too.