Geek Chic: Names that wear glasses

Geek Chic: Names that wear glasses

By Pamela Redmond Satran

Have you heard of Warby Parker?  They’re the cool vintage=inspired online eyeglass company that launched a huge trend.  And now they’re joined by a host of other geek chic eyewear purveyors, including one for kids called Very French Gangsters, where we found our adorable glasses-wearing model.

But the real point here, as it always is on Nameberry, is names.

I was perusing the wares on Warby Parker the other day when I was distracted by the names of the frames.  Some embody a lot of geek but not much chic: Fillmore, Digby, and Duckworth. And then there are those like Sloan and Sawyer, Reynold and Larkin, which are chic without the geek.

So what are the Geek Chic names that suggest a kid wearing glasses, in the cutest, coolest possible way?  Warby Parker includes some boys’ names that qualify: Boyd, Clyde, Ellsworth, Marshall, Percy, Wilkie, along with one girls’ name that does by a stretch, Mabel.

We have a lot more nominations for Geek Chic names though.  Warby Parker, are you listening?

girls

Agatha

Agnes

Bernice

Edna

Eudora

Eugenia

Henrietta

Ida

Lucille

Magdalene

Mildred

Muriel

Olive

Prudence

Ruth

Zelda

boys

Albert

Chester

Conrad

Dudley

Edgar

Fergus

Floyd

Hector

Humphrey

Leroy

Linus

Lloyd

Murray

Oswald

Otto

Ralph

Stanley

Wallace

For more ideas, see our Clunky but Cool lists for girls and boys.

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About the Author

Pamela Redmond

Pamela Redmond

Pamela Redmond is the cocreator and CEO of Nameberry and Baby Name DNA. The coauthor of ten groundbreaking books on names, Redmond is an internationally-recognized baby name expert, quoted and published widely in such media outlets as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, CNN, and the BBC. She has written about baby names for The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and People.

Redmond is also a New York Times bestselling novelist whose books include Younger, the basis for the hit television show, and its sequel, Older. She has three new books in the works.