Pet Names for Geeks and Nerds

Gamora

Fictional name, probably from Biblical place name Gomorrah

"sheaf"

A green-skinned superhero from the Marvel universe, played by Vanessa Marshall and Zoe Saldana, among others.

Gravity

Word name

Spacey. Gravity will probably be too heavy and grave -- sorry -- for most parents. But one possible exception might be big fans of Alfonso Cuaron's 2013 movie Gravity . And astrophysicists.

Hedwig

German

"war"

An ancient German saint's name – and most famously the name of Harry Potter's snowy owl – but the combination of "head" plus "wig" feels a little too literal in English.

Mercury

Roman

"messenger of the gods, quicksilver"

It's a car brand, a planet, and the messenger of the gods -- but it's questionable whether it works as a little girl's name.

Mystique

French word name

Better for a perfume.

Pixel

English modern coinage

"picture cell or element"

Coined in the 1960s to define the smallest photographic element of a televised image. It's a portmanteau of "picture" + "cell" or "element".

Polaris

Latin

"pole star"

The astronomical Polaris is better known as the North Star, the brightest star in the Ursa Minor constellation. It's also the name of a character in the Marvel Universe, as the daughter of Magneto.…

Spark

English word name

"glowing particle"

A nonbinary word name that could work perfectly in the middle, especially for a child born under a fire sign.