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English literary name
"kite"
Poetic and easy to pronounce (it's keets), this is one of many poets' names to consider, such as Auden, Eliot, Frost, Byron, Lorca, Marlowe, Blake, Emerson and Tennyson. Likely meaning "kite", in…
Keats is both poetic and easier to pronounce (it's keets) than Yeats (which is yates).
English or Irish surname
Keating is familiar as a surname but unexpected as a first. It boasts the always energetic -ing ending.