I’m expecting our 5th baby and 4th boy. So far our kids’ names are 1) something from Geek culture and 2) a Catholic saint (or both at the same time). I was totally convinced this baby was a girl, so we focused our attention of girl names. Nope! We’re drawing a near-total blank on boy names and need more ideas to toss around!
Our older kids are:
[name_f]Petra[/name_f] [name_u]Jeanne[/name_u] (After [name_f]Petra[/name_f] Arkanian from Ender’s Game and St. [name_u]Joan[/name_u] of Arc)
[name_m]Corwin[/name_m] [name_m]Matthias[/name_m] (After the MC in The Chronicles of [name_f]Amber[/name_f] and St. Matthias)
[name_u]Theo[/name_u] [name_m]Peregrin[/name_m] (After St. [name_m]Theodore[/name_m] and [name_u]Pippin[/name_u] in LOTR)
[name_u]Arthur[/name_u] [name_m]Paul[/name_m] (I’ll bet you can guess who Arthur’s namesake is, and St. Paul)
The only name we’ve been able to come up with so far that we both kind of like is [name_u]Tristan[/name_u], and we are kind of meh about it. Boys’ names we’ve considered in the past but aren’t anymore are [name_m]Bram[/name_m], [name_m]Victor[/name_m], [name_m]Simon[/name_m], and [name_u]Christian[/name_u]. Girls’ names we like are [name_f]Ada[/name_f], [name_f]Ruth[/name_f], [name_f]Iris[/name_f], [name_f]Alice[/name_f], and [name_f]Violet[/name_f].
I love your theme you have going on! I’m not sure what specific areas of Geek Chic you’re fans of, but I’ll just put what comes to mind!
[name_m]Cassian[/name_m] - name from Rouge One
[name_u]Quill[/name_u] - name from [name_u]Marvel[/name_u].
[name_u]Mercer[/name_u] - Name from Skyrim
[name_m]Xavier[/name_m] - name used in X-Men.
[name_u]Sora[/name_u] - name from [name_m]Kingdom[/name_m] Hearts.
[name_m]Joel[/name_m] - name from The Last of Us.
[name_m]Cedric[/name_m] - name from [name_u]Harry[/name_u] [name_m]Potter[/name_m]
[name_m]Lucius[/name_m] - name from [name_u]Harry[/name_u] [name_m]Potter[/name_m]
[name_m]Link[/name_m] - The [name_u]Legend[/name_u] of [name_f]Zelda[/name_f]
[name_m]Jareth[/name_m] - name from Labyrinth
Eragon - Eragon
[name_u]Oberon[/name_u] - nn [name_m]Obi[/name_m] could be a Starwars reference; also has ties to Game of Thrones & [name_m]Shakespeare[/name_m]
[name_f]My[/name_f] immediate thought was [name_m]Bastian[/name_m] from The Never Ending [name_u]Story[/name_u]. It’s the perfect fit with his siblings!
Desmond Felix
Quentin Jude
Cecil Henry
Cassian Leo
Lionel Oliver
Dimitri Otto
Finnick Bernard “Finn”
Idris
Garrick
Gideon Laurence
Jareth
Jorah
Leonard
Magnus “Gus”
Oberon “Obi”
Xavier Louis
Remy Sebastian
Bishop
Ronin Tobias
Dashiell Floyd
Cedric Daniel
Amos Gilbert
Dudley
Lucius
Barry
Harland “Hank”
Dax Garrett
Elliott George
Atticus Mark
Wesley Oscar
Calvin Conrad
Malcom Cillian
Harvey Dustan
Linus Edmund
Roman Ignatius
Percy Isaac
Orin Rupert
Darren Abel
Emil Vincent
Ulysses Eric
Lucian Ambrose
I’m loving your sibset and the meaning behind your favorite names!
I'm going to focus on Catholic saint's names that also have ties to geek culture!
Valerian - protagonist of the Valerian and Laureline comics and the movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Lucius - Lucius from Fallout, Lucius Malfoy from the Harry Potter series, Lucius from Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and Julius Ceasar, Lucius Isaacson from The Alienist, Lucius Fox from the Batman comics
Walter - Walter Bishop from Fringe, Walter from Zathura, Walter “Radar” O’Reilly from M.A.S.H., Walter White from Breaking Bad,
Julian - Dr. Julian Bashir from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; Julian Blackthorn from the Shadowhunters series; also Bean’s real name, but that might be too much Ender’s Game?
Gabriel - the angel from Supernatural, Gabriel Reyes from Overwatch, Gabriel Van Helsing from Van Helsing
Ulric - Nyx Ulric from Final Fantasy, Ulric from Warhammer, Ulrich Stern from Code Lyoko
Inigo - Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride
Vincent - Vincent Valentine from Final Fantasy, the painter Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Corleone from the Godfather series, Vincent Nigel Murray from Bones
Sebastian - Sebastian from Shakespeare’s Tempest and Twelfth Night; Sebastian Stan, the actor who plays Bucky Barnes in the Marvel movies; Sebastian Morgenstern from the Shadowhunters series; Sebastian Michaelis from Kuroshitsuji / Black Butler; Bastian Balthazar Bux from The Neverending Story
Elias - Elias Veturius from An Ember in the Ashes, Elias Bouchard from The Magnus Archives
Bernard - Bernard Lowe from Westworld
Hugh - Hugh, formerly Three of Five, the first deconverted Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation; Hugh Jackman, who plays Wolverine in X-Men; Hugh Dancy, who plays Will Graham in Hannibal; it might be a stretch, but you could also do Hugo, as in The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Magnus - Magnus Lothbrok from Vikings, Magnus Bane from the Shadowhunters series, The Magnus Archives
Linus - Linus van Pelt from the Peanuts comics, Linus from Star Trek: Discovery, the LINUS reactor
Edmund - Edmund Pevensie from the Chronicles of Narnia
Benedict - Benedict Cumberbatch, the actor who plays Sherlock from the eponymous TV series, Doctor Strange in the Marvel movies, Khan in the rebooted Star Trek franchise, etc.
Nicholas - Nick Fury from Marvel, Nicholas Scratch from The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Nicholas Flamel from Harry Potter
Gerald - with a slight stretch, this could be Geralt from The Witcher series
Octavian - Tavi from Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series
Ronan - Ronan Lynch from The Raven Cycle series and The Dreamer Trilogy, Ronan the Accuser from Marvel comics, Ronon Dex from Stargate Atlantis
Phinehas - Phineas Flynn from Phineas and Ferb
Felix - Felix “Fee” Dawkins from Orphan Black, Felix Gaeta from Battlestar Galactica
Orion - Orion from the Percy Jackson books, Orion the DC comics character, the race of Orions from Star Trek, and the original German sci-fi series Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (Space Patrol Orion)
Raphael - Rafael Solano from Jane the Virgin, Raphael from TMNT, Rafael Sarmento the sci-fi artist, and of course Raphael the Italian renaissance painter
Albert - Einstein. Nuff said.
Miles - Miles Morales from Spider-Man / Marvel, Miles O’Brien from Star Trek (both The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine), Miles Archer from The Maltese Falcon, Miles Vorkosigan from The Vorkosigan Saga, M from James Bond (whose full name in the novels is Sir Miles Messervy)
Damian - Damian Wayne, son of Batman and Talia al Ghul, one of the Robins from DC comics
Patrick - Patrick Jane from The Mentalist; Patrick from The Rain; Patrick Stewart, the actor who plays Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek and Charles Xavier from X-Men; Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Kingkiller Chronicles
Giles - Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Quentin - Quentin Beck (Mysterio) from Spider-man, Quentin Lance from Arrow, Quentin Collins from Dark Shadows, Quentin Coldwater from The Magicians; there’s also Quentin Tarantino, whether that’s a positive or negative for you
Killian - Aldrich Killian from the Marvel movies, Killian Jones / Hook from Once Upon a Time
Lorenzo - Lorenzo de Medici from Da Vinci’s Demons and Medici: Masters of Florence
Paschal - Pascal’s Wager; Pedro Pascal, the actor who plays the titular Mandalorian and Oberyn Martell from Game of Thrones; Blaise Pascal, the famous physicist
Constantine - John Constantine, occult detective from DC Comics
Bonus suggestions:
My partner, who used to be a web developer for a Catholic publishing company, recommends Isidore, who they said is the patron saint of electronics and the internet.
Malcolm means “devotee of St. Colomba” and is a fantastic Firefly reference!
This was a really fun challenge. I hope we found you some useful options!
[name_u]Love[/name_u] the names and theme and I literally have no idea how to answer lmao other than I’ll suggest [name_m]Benedict[/name_m] for the saints name or [name_m]Dominic[/name_m] which I think feel cohesive next to your other kids names or basically read the post above, marvelous name suggestions recommended by @lavenderwitch
[name_f]My[/name_f] immediate thought for a first name was [name_u]Edison[/name_u], which I think works with the others. For a middle name, [name_m]Benedict[/name_m] is both a [name_m]Saint[/name_m] AND a name related to a character in geek culture so I give you:
[name_f]Petra[/name_f] [name_u]Jeanne[/name_u] , [name_m]Corwin[/name_m] [name_m]Matthias[/name_m], [name_u]Theo[/name_u] [name_u]Peregrine[/name_u] and [name_u]Arthur[/name_u] [name_m]Paul[/name_m] are stunning names and I love the significance each one has
The suggestions so far have been stellar and I cannot think of anything that hasn’t been said !
I am slightly pulled to an M or J middle name .
Totally drawn to [name_m]Martin[/name_m] , [name_m]Malcom[/name_m] and [name_m]Jacob[/name_m] , [name_u]John[/name_u] [name_u]James[/name_u] and [name_u]Julian[/name_u]
Some pairings from others lists that I am currently loving for you:
I am absolutely loving [name_m]Edmund[/name_m] [name_u]Sheldon[/name_u] and [name_m]Hugh[/name_m] with [name_f]Petra[/name_f] , [name_m]Corwin[/name_m], [name_u]Theo[/name_u] and [name_u]Arthur[/name_u]