A friend recently asked me about the equivalent of Little Black Dress Names for boys. What would you call this style? And which names fit?
According to our definition, these names “ooze style and sophistication, but they do so with classically understated flair.”
I’d include:
Bennett
Jack
Luca
Miles
Roman
Everett
August
Harris
Anton
Leon
Nico
Felix
Hugo
Marco
What else?
I’d add [name_u]James[/name_u] and [name_m]Peter[/name_m]!
I agree with many of these!
[name_u]Miles[/name_u], [name_u]August[/name_u], [name_m]Anton[/name_m], [name_u]Leon[/name_u], [name_m]Felix[/name_m], [name_m]Hugo[/name_m] and [name_m]Marco[/name_m] especially.
Maybe…
[name_u]Jules[/name_u]
[name_m]Louis[/name_m]
[name_u]Reid[/name_u]
[name_m]Clark[/name_m]
[name_m]Alban[/name_m]
[name_m]Vincent[/name_m]
[name_u]Julian[/name_u]
[name_u]Corin[/name_u]
[name_m]Maxim[/name_m]
[name_m]Fabian[/name_m]
[name_u]Laurence[/name_u]
[name_u]Elliot[/name_u]
[name_m]Yann[/name_m]
[name_m]Oliver[/name_m]
[name_u]Luca[/name_u], [name_u]Miles[/name_u], [name_u]August[/name_u], and [name_m]Hugo[/name_m] seem like great examples!
Some that come to mind for me…
[name_m]Sebastian[/name_m]
[name_u]Gabriel[/name_u]
[name_u]Max[/name_u]
[name_m]Simon[/name_m]
[name_u]Elias[/name_u]
[name_u]Eli[/name_u]
[name_u]Francis[/name_u]
[name_m]Alexander[/name_m]
[name_u]Theo[/name_u]
[name_u]Leo[/name_u]
[name_m]Vincent[/name_m]
[name_m]Oscar[/name_m]
[name_u]Ezra[/name_u]
[name_u]Florian[/name_u]
Max/Maxwell
[name_m]Isaac[/name_m]
[name_u]Sasha[/name_u]
[name_u]Tristan[/name_u]
Thinking about the type name here…
[name_m]Classic[/name_m], tailored, understated, urbane
Suit and tie names (keeping the clothing theme going)
[name_m]Clark[/name_m] [name_m]Gable[/name_m] names (although [name_m]Clark[/name_m] itself doesn’t really fit)
Boulevardier names (after the classic whiskey cocktail, also loosely means man-about-town)
Okay that’s all I’ve got!
Everett, August, Hugo and Marco are great options.
Evander
Leopold
Victor
Tobias
Sterling
Raphael
Reuben
Orlando
Alasdair
Alejandro
Magnus
Whitaker
Matteo
Ambrose
Vance
[name_u]Sidney[/name_u]
[name_m]Art[/name_m]
[name_u]Maurice[/name_u]
[name_u]James[/name_u]
[name_m]Rick[/name_m]
[name_m]Rick[/name_m] [name_u]James[/name_u] 
jk
Suit and tie names might be it! [name_u]Love[/name_u] that 
[name_m]Black[/name_m] leather jacket names, perhaps?
Offering up these as LBD equivalents:
[name_u]Owen[/name_u]
[name_u]David[/name_u]
[name_u]Connor[/name_u]
[name_u]Jack[/name_u]
[name_m]Mateo[/name_m]
[name_u]Evan[/name_u]
[name_m]Malachi[/name_m]
[name_m]Patrick[/name_m]
[name_u]Max[/name_u]
[name_m]Alexander[/name_m]
[name_m]Christopher[/name_m]
[name_m]Raphael[/name_m]
[name_m]Tom[/name_m], [name_m]Thomas[/name_m]
[name_m]Oliver[/name_m]
[name_m]Frederick[/name_m]
[name_m]Joshua[/name_m]
[name_m]Hugo[/name_m]
[name_u]Jesse[/name_u]
[name_m]Otto[/name_m]
[name_u]Arthur[/name_u]
[name_u]Spencer[/name_u]
[name_u]Leo[/name_u]
[name_u]Charlie[/name_u]
[name_u]Christian[/name_u]
I would say (and agree with others)
[name_m]Theodore[/name_m] / [name_u]Theo[/name_u]
[name_u]Maxwell[/name_u] / [name_u]Max[/name_u]
[name_m]Felix[/name_m]
[name_u]Milo[/name_u]
[name_u]Jack[/name_u]
[name_m]Colin[/name_m]
[name_m]Anthony[/name_m]
[name_m]Benedict[/name_m]
[name_m]Oliver[/name_m]
[name_u]John[/name_u] / [name_m]Jonathan[/name_m]
[name_m]Louis[/name_m] / [name_u]Louie[/name_u] / [name_m]Lewis[/name_m]
[name_m]Roger[/name_m]
[name_u]Alfie[/name_u]
[name_u]Franklin[/name_u]
Thinking about what style name fits in this category. Seems much harder to pin down for boys!
In my opinion:
It’s not the mega classics like James or John.
It’s not modern or invented like Wilder or Paxton.
It can’t have too much of a particular style, for example, Wyatt and Arlo feel more cowboyish, and Axel and Antoine feel more European.
To me, it has to skate around these categories, and still feel like a known quantity that has been around for some time.
Bennett
Simon
Miles
Asher
Julian
Everett
Wesley
Dominic
Dean
Andre
Zander
Love the names everyone has suggested above!
[name_u]Love[/name_u] a good debonair boy’s name! [name_f]My[/name_f] favorites:
[name_m]Dominic[/name_m]
[name_m]Sebastian[/name_m]
[name_u]James[/name_u]
[name_u]Gabriel[/name_u]
[name_u]Rhys[/name_u]
[name_m]Vincent[/name_m]
[name_u]Dane[/name_u]
[name_m]Laurent[/name_m]
[name_m]Alec[/name_m]
[name_m]Raphael[/name_m]
[name_m]Gideon[/name_m]
[name_m]Dante[/name_m]
[name_m]Felix[/name_m], [name_u]Elliot[/name_u], [name_u]Marlowe[/name_u], [name_u]Leo[/name_u], [name_u]Miles[/name_u], [name_m]Oliver[/name_m], [name_m]Theodore[/name_m].
1920s/1930s inspired?