Saturday, January 31, 2009

Baby boy (likes Oliver, but not Oliver)

Boy.
I like Oliver, Jude and Milo but those are way too trendy. I really love Oliver but I suspect it's too popular (I live near SanFran). I hate realizing that my taste run toward urban intellectual. I don't want a trendy, popular name but classic names are boring (to me). What is good middle ground? I like names that can shorten to a cute nickname. Also, cannot start with B or M, last name starts with M. Thanks in advance!

Urban intellectual. I like the way you put that.
If you love Oliver, you might want to use it and pair it with an untraditional middle name that you could use as a first name, or using it as a middle name that he can go by.
Here's some ideas. Let us know if any of these are close and we can go from there.
Declan (Dec)
Daxton (Dax)
Ellis (Eli)
Silas (Cy/Si)
Riles (Ry)
Drakos (Drake)
Orion (O or Rye)
Camden (Cam)
Greysen/Grayson (Gray)
Grahmn/Graeme (Gray)
Wellesley (Wells)
Lincoln (Link)
Prescott (Pres)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the ideas! I like Silas or Ellis the best. I'm not a big fan of surnames as first names, so the rest of the list doesn't appeal that much to me. I like the nicknames though. Thanks for encouraging me to use Oliver, despite the trendiness!