If You Like Austin, You Might Love...
Baby boy name you love but fear is overused? Here are some possible substitutes.
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Adrian
Adrian has in the past been neglected due to its similarity to the feminine Adrienne, but is now being reconsidered. Well used in England since the 1950s, and the name of one Pope and several saint... Read More
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August
August has been heating up in Hollywood--used by Mariska Hargitay, Lena Olin and Jeanne Tripplehorn, (and by Garth Brooks for his daughter), and is rapidly becoming the preferred month of the year ... Read More
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Augusten
Confessional memoirist Augusten Burroughs is the first literary notable in this family of names since the confessional saint. Read More
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Austin
Austin -- a name with an attractive southwestern feel, place-name panache and the solid base of having long been an Anglo-Saxon surname --reached the Top 10 in the 1990s, but has been gradually sli... Read More
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Boston
With the popularity of place-names from Brooklyn to Brazil, the attractive and distinctive Boston is surely about to rise. Read More
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Bowie
Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn put this name in play as a first name, but David Bowie (born with the considerably less marketable moniker of David Robert Jones) dyed it blond and gave it charisma... Read More
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Carson
Carson is an androgynous executive-type name, with a dash of the Wild West via the legendary Missouri frontiersman Kit Carson. Dating back to when it was the name of Nancy Drew's Dad, Carson is sti... Read More
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Chance
Once a cavalier Mississippi gambler. type name, Chance has entered the mainstream and is rising rapidly; endorsed by such celebrity dads as Larry King and Paul Hogan. Read More
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Colt
Colt is the kind of unconventionally macho name that is so trendy right now, because of or despite its association with horses and guns. Colt rose a whopping 623 places in popularity over the last... Read More
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Colton
Colton is a trendy two-syllable choice, with the popular 'on/en' ending. Colton jumped onto the popularity list in 1982 at Number 806. Then, in 1988, the hunky character Colton Shore was introduc... Read More
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