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Geek Chic Names for Boys

Pamela Redmond
By Pamela Redmond
Updated Wed Dec 07 2016

By Pamela Satran

Geek is chic, at least when it comes to boys’ names. Looking at classic boys’ names that lie below the Top 1000, a lot of them are sweetly geeky. These are not the obvious Cool Guy names like Nico and Shane; instead, they’re the names of the computer nerds who go on to make a billion dollars and help save the world.

Depending on your taste, some of these names (hi, Marmaduke! hi, Hyman!) may be too geeky for you. Others, like Edmond or Van or Wallace, may strike you as downright suave.

But there may be some names for boys here that seem to reach the perfect balance between geek and chic.

  • Arnold

  • Barney

  • Barry

  • Douglas

  • Earl

  • Edmond

  • Elmo

  • Gary

  • Geoffrey

  • Gerard

  • Herbert

  • Herman

  • Horace

  • Howard

  • Hubert

  • Hyman

  • Ira

  • Irvin

  • Ivor

  • Kermit

  • Lancelot

  • Laurence

  • Leland

  • Lemuel

  • Leroy

  • Lester

  • Lionel

  • Lyle

  • Marmaduke

  • Maxfield

  • Melvin

  • Merlin

  • Milton

  • Mortimer

  • Murray

  • Myron

  • Neil

  • Noel

  • Percy

  • Philbert

  • Randolph

  • Roderick

  • Rudolph

  • Rudy

  • Rudyard

  • Seymour

  • Sidney

  • Stanley

  • Stuart

  • Urban

  • Van

  • Vaughan

  • Waldo

  • Wallace

  • Willis

    • What do you think? Too geeky? Too self-consciously hip? And which are just right?

    About the Author

    Pamela Redmond

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    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.

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    Introducing the Nameberry App

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    Find your perfect baby name together with our new mobile app.
    • Swipe through thousands of names with your partner
    • Names you match on are saved to your shared list
    • Get personalized recommendations that learn based on your and your partner's preferences
    • Partner with friends and family to find names you all love
    • Backed by Nameberry's 20 years of data around name preferences.
    Sign up to be notified when the app launches and to receive a discount on full access.
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