East Texas not-too-out-there names in honor of Kat

If you read today’s (Nov. 10th) nameberry blog, you can see a comment by [name]Kat[/name]. She notes that in [name]East[/name] [name]Texas[/name] where she lives, the popular names on Nameberry are way too unusual, so much so that if she named her kid a hip Nameberry name, they might be shunned when they went off for school.
So, let’s make a list of not-too-out-there names for those of us who live in the less hip areas.

Not-too-out there names have to be:
palatable, not so dated that they make an intelligent person squirm
classic or literary or a place name that people are used to
familiar enough for the small town set to identify with
classic Southern surnames for girls are a possibility

Not-too-out-there names:

Girls
[name]Anna[/name]
[name]Brenna[/name]
[name]Caroline[/name]
[name]Diana[/name]
[name]Elizabeth[/name]
[name]Hollis[/name]
[name]Joanna[/name]
[name]Katherine[/name]
[name]Laura[/name]
[name]Lucy[/name]
[name]Marin[/name]
[name]Natalie[/name]
[name]Peyton[/name]
[name]Shelby[/name]

Boys
[name]Andrew[/name]
[name]Benjamin[/name]
[name]Charles[/name]
[name]Connor[/name]
[name]Daniel[/name]
[name]Ethan[/name]
[name]Gavin[/name]
[name]Henry[/name]
[name]Isaac[/name]
[name]Jack[/name]
[name]Liam[/name]
[name]Nathaniel[/name]
[name]Owen[/name]
[name]Spencer[/name]
[name]Thomas[/name]
[name]William[/name]

Great idea, [name]Susan[/name]! :slight_smile: My apologies for repeats…

[name]Audrey[/name]
[name]Amelia[/name]
[name]Caroline[/name]
[name]Charlotte[/name]
[name]Claire[/name]
[name]Diana[/name]
[name]Eve[/name]
[name]Eliza[/name]
[name]Eleanor[/name]
[name]Grace[/name]
[name]Hope[/name]
[name]Julia[/name]
[name]Josephine[/name]
[name]Lydia[/name]
[name]Lucy[/name]
[name]Miranda[/name]
[name]Natalie[/name]
[name]Rose[/name]
[name]Ruby[/name]
[name]Scarlett[/name]
[name]Stella[/name]
[name]Tess[/name]
[name]Violet[/name]

[name]Andrew[/name]
[name]Alexander[/name]
[name]Benjamin[/name]
[name]Charles[/name]
[name]Edward[/name]
[name]Elliot[/name]
[name]Gabriel[/name]
[name]Henry[/name]
[name]Joseph[/name]
[name]Matthew[/name]
[name]Nicholas[/name]
[name]Nathaniel[/name]
[name]Oliver[/name]
[name]Peter[/name]
[name]Samuel[/name]
[name]Thomas[/name]
[name]William[/name]

Good luck! :slight_smile:

[name]Alexandra[/name]
[name]Belle[/name]
[name]Bridget[/name]
[name]Cassandra[/name]
[name]Cecilia[/name]
[name]Chandler[/name]
[name]Corinne[/name]
[name]Delia[/name]
[name]Elizabeth[/name]
[name]Emery[/name]
[name]Eva[/name]
[name]Grace[/name]
[name]Hattie[/name]
[name]Heidi[/name]
[name]Isabel[/name]
[name]Jacqueline[/name]
[name]Lena[/name]
[name]Leighton[/name]
[name]Lilah[/name]
[name]Marielle[/name]
[name]Morgan[/name]
[name]Paige[/name]
[name]Polly[/name]
[name]Regan[/name]
[name]Sabrina[/name]
[name]Sheridan[/name]
[name]Tara[/name]
[name]Waverly[/name]

[name]Adam[/name]
[name]Alexander[/name]
[name]Calvin[/name]
[name]Christopher[/name]
[name]David[/name]
[name]George[/name]
[name]Ian[/name]
[name]James[/name]
[name]Jeremy[/name]
[name]John[/name]
[name]Josiah[/name]
[name]Jude[/name]
[name]Levi[/name]
[name]Louis[/name]
[name]Lucas[/name]
[name]Mac[/name]
[name]Michael[/name]
[name]Nolan[/name]
Patirck
[name]Philip[/name]
[name]Robert[/name]
[name]Sean[/name]
[name]Wilson[/name]
[name]Wyatt[/name]
[name]Zachary[/name]

I too live in [name]East[/name] [name]Texas[/name], and [name]Kat[/name]'s right. Parents around these parts tend to pick names straight out of the top ten list. You don’t really hear of many kids with unique names. Daycares and elementary schools are filled with Madisons and Emilys, Jacobs and [name]Matthews[/name]. Not that those are bad choices or anything, but the occasional [name]Asher[/name] or [name]Arwen[/name] would be kind of refreshing. However, if you want something nice but not too out there, here are my suggestions:

Girls: [name]Juliana[/name], [name]Ramona[/name], [name]Ruby[/name], [name]Gracelyn[/name], [name]Nadya[/name], [name]Hadley[/name], [name]Violet[/name], [name]Charlotte[/name], [name]Lilah[/name], [name]Lena[/name], [name]Emilia[/name]

Boys: [name]Julian[/name], [name]Edward[/name], [name]Joel[/name], [name]Ellison[/name], [name]Mathias[/name], [name]Dane[/name], [name]Solomon[/name], [name]Spencer[/name]