Stylish Baby Names: A catalog of cool choices
Nameberry guest blogger and star intern Hannah Tenison uncovers a catalogue of intriguingly stylish baby names.
Savvy shoppers know that the best deals and sales are to be found after the holidays, when retailers who need to make room for new spring inventory drastically slash prices. This year, with my gift cards in hand, I have been browsing clothing websites in search of the best deals and steals.
What I found, however, in addition to the array of beautifully discounted clothing I had anticipated, was a plethora of stylish baby names. Retailers, perhaps in an effort to imbue their clothing with a certain personality or style, are frequently naming their garments, and some clothing manufacturers are surprisingly (and delightfully) very skilled at the name game.
One of my favorite websites to troll, Rugby Ralph Lauren, offered up such a dazzling bevy of holiday delicacies that I felt compelled to share them with all the other berries out there! The choices range from the lusciously feminissima (Calixta and Forsythia) to crusty surname (Talcott and Ackley) to epic medieval (Baldric and Rowena), and all of them were so appealing that it was hard to whittle down the complete list of stylish baby names I’d found. The ones I’ve compiled for the sake of this blog are my favorites; unusual, fresh, and imminently “wearable.” In any case, Rugby is brilliant for putting so much effort into these names; I can’t be the only one who, given the choice between a blouse called “Araminte” and one called “Maddysin,” would take the former!
Girls
Aberdare
Araminte
Edine
Hollace
Isaris
Boys
Ackley
Alsten
Baldric
Chapman
Creston
Escott
Kenway
Reeve (could work for either gender)
Thackery
Hannah is a junior at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, working toward a B.A. in English and German. Her hobbies, besides names, include reading, writing, languages, and classic films, particularly screwball comedies. After graduation, she plans on studying international journalism.