Poet Names: Chaucer, Cullen & Kipling

Bogan is DEFINITELY completely unusable in New Zealand & Australia! Explained by wikipedia:

“The term bogan is Australian and New Zealand slang, usually pejorative or self-deprecating, for an individual who is recognised to be from a lower-middle class background or someone whose limited education, speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour exemplifies such a background.”

Kipling has to be my favourite from this collection.

Fantastic post, yet again! I have to say that having spent the last decade with my nose in science journals, I am not very well versed in the classics. I love posts like this that help me get a little bit more cultured (: I love the peaceful Paz and Dove, and I love the style of the name Tennyson (though I would not use it myself). Edgar Irving is the baby name de jour that hubby and I are fond of, seems to fit the theme with both names … No Poe on the list?

Heehee “Bogan”. Definitely not usable in NZ. Made me giggle.

Please no one pick Bogan. Choose Byron instead. Even if it doesn’t have the same connotations in the US as it does in Australasia, Bogy is still not a pretty nickname!

Love Hugo. We can’t use it because husband’s cousin has a son called Hugo. Just found out we’re having a boy too. Bother!

No Auden in your slideshow. Or Bronte? Love these names, but I’ve heard them a lot lately, esp. Auden.

I’d go with Keats.

As soon as I saw Bogan I laughed, it is definitely not usuable in Oz.

I would be wary of Kipling, simply because his poetry is frequently considered by modern scholars to have problematic racial and imperialist overtones. How about Wilfred Owen instead?

Why you would choose to honour Victor Hugo over the true poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal is beyond me…. What about Rainer Rilke? Both would make interesting name choices.

I would have loved to honour my favourite poet/composer, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (I was born on his birthday).

I also think using Hallam to honour Tennyson would be good.

Don’t want to be a nitpicker…but I couldn’t help but notice that the blog stated that Tennyson was Russell Crowe’s first son. That’s incorrect. Charles Spencer is the firstborn and Tennyson is the second son.

I really like Chaucer and Marlowe – before this even was posted!

Mischa–yes of course, you’re right about Tennyson being the younger–I will correct.

I don’t like any of these to be honest…

A kid named Bogan in New Zealand would be terrible!!! I like the other names though, especially Byron and Kipling.

I quite like Tennyson. but yes, Bogan is incredibly unusable here. May as well call your kid Dag and have done with it.
other literary names I like are Keats and Kesey (an author rather than a poet).

Quite right Bogan is totally OUT for an Aussie. It is a derogatory term. If you must go down that road then perhaps Boden would fit but it could still be teasing material.

Love Lorca, Paz, and Marlowe. Probably wouldn’t use them, but like ‘em anyway

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My friend’s 3 year old son is named Kipling. Goes by nn Kip.
At first I didn’t know what to make of it, but it has definitely grown on me. He is a charming, funny and intelligent little boy who owns his name, not the other way around.
His new brother is Rigby.