DoomKitten's list "Badass Cool Weird Names I Love" of 2 great name ideas: Vander - Zephyr!

Badass Cool Weird Names I Love

List of names that I love,  perhaps for the future.  (Probably so weird and awesome)

Vander is likely a compound of the Dutch elements "Van Der" which prefix a variety of surnames. Meaning "of the" or "from the", they were traditionally used to denote where a family was from. Van der Wal, for example, would mean "from the wall". As a contemporary given name, Vander is probably used for its cool, on trend sounds, similar to Xander and Zander.
 
Alternatively, Vander may be considered a short form of the Greek and Scottish name Evander meaning "strong, good man" or "bow warrior", depending on what root you follow. There's also the Portuguese Vanderson, meaning "son of Andrew" which may have provided inspiriation.
 
Given to around 90 boys in a recent year, it remains outside the US Top 1000, though it has been gaining more attention since the 2010s.

Vander

If you're looking for a name that's light and breezy, this could be it. A name from mythology: Zephyrus/Zephyr was the Greek god of the west wind, and with its similarity in sound to the likes of Stefan or Seth, its zippy Z initial and cool Y, it is primed to rise up the US charts.
 
Frequently seen in computer and video games thanks to its mystical quality, it is also a character in the children's book Silverwing, and in the Babar books--as a monkey. It features in the TV series My Little Pony, the short animated film How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming, and in the manga series, One Piece.
 Robby Benson and Karla De Vito named their son Zephyr in 1992, and Zephyr Benson is now an actor himself. More recently it was chosen by tech entrepreneur Sean Parker for his baby boy.
 
Thanks to these cultural references, and the more general interest in myhtological names, Zephyr has doubled in popularity over the last decade and was given to nearly 190 boys in the US in a recent year.