Names with grandeur and flair

Hi everyone!

Today I’m thinking of big, bold names - longer, with flair and grandeur.
Names like: Benvolio, Ambrosio, Amadeus, Horatio, Lysander, Isidore, Endymion, Leonidas, Azarius, Apollo, Barnaby, Balthazar, Brynmor.

What are your favourites in this style?

Thanks for sharing :heart:

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[name_m]Elidor[/name_m]
[name_m]Ignatius[/name_m]
[name_u]Peregrine[/name_u]
Alduin
[name_m]Evermund[/name_m]
[name_u]Augustine[/name_u]
[name_u]Dorian[/name_u]
[name_m]Tristram[/name_m]
[name_m]Anselm[/name_m]
[name_m]Edmund[/name_m]
[name_m]Casimir[/name_m]
[name_m]Bramwell[/name_m]
[name_m]Octavian[/name_m]
[name_m]Aurelius[/name_m]
[name_m]Lazarus[/name_m]
[name_u]Constantine[/name_u]
[name_m]Barnabas[/name_m]
[name_u]Oberon[/name_u]
[name_m]Percival[/name_m]
[name_m]Caius[/name_m]
[name_m]Romulus[/name_m]
[name_m]Mercutio[/name_m]
[name_m]Galileo[/name_m]
[name_m]Valerian[/name_m]
[name_m]Nicodemus[/name_m]
[name_m]Lucentio[/name_m]
[name_m]Alasdair[/name_m]
[name_m]Benedict[/name_m]
[name_m]Ludovic[/name_m]
[name_u]Thaddeus[/name_u]

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Florian
Caspian
Mercutio
Orlando
Ferdinand
Astrophel
Bedivere
Galahad
Elessar
Olorin
Orsino
Claudio

Love names like this!

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@planetnames These are gorgeous - especially liking [name_m]Ignatius[/name_m], [name_u]Peregrine[/name_u], [name_u]Dorian[/name_u], [name_m]Casimir[/name_m], [name_m]Bramwell[/name_m], [name_m]Lazarus[/name_m], [name_m]Barnabas[/name_m], [name_u]Oberon[/name_u], [name_m]Romulus[/name_m], [name_m]Mercutio[/name_m] and [name_u]Thaddeus[/name_u]

@persephonescrown these are fabulous - [name_m]Orlando[/name_m], [name_m]Ferdinand[/name_m], [name_m]Astrophel[/name_m] :heart: and [name_m]Galahad[/name_m] are catching my eye :slight_smile:

@DropOfsunlight [name_m]Beauregard[/name_m], [name_u]Augustine[/name_u] and [name_m]Galileo[/name_m] are brilliant!!!

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That’s my favourite category of names.

A game I played had a character named [name_m]Figaro[/name_m], nicknamed “Figs” - an atrocious abstract painter in the 1930s, enamoured with a young woman named [name_f]Mopsie[/name_f]. I think that qualifies!

There’s [name_m]Socrates[/name_m]. Socks as a nickname? [name_m]Figaro[/name_m] “Figs” and [name_m]Socrates[/name_m] “Socks” could be friend of [name_u]Bertie[/name_u] Wooster.

[name_m]Galahad[/name_m]! There’s a song called [name_m]Galahad[/name_m] by [name_m]Josh[/name_m] [name_m]Ritter[/name_m], poking fun at the Arthurian knight, and it’s one of my favourites.

There’s florid and romantic [name_m]Florencio[/name_m] and [name_m]Florentino[/name_m]. I think I prefer the latter.

I just finished watching Better Call [name_m]Saul[/name_m]. Thus, [name_m]Ignacio[/name_m].

I like [name_m]Cyprian[/name_m]. Unexpected and poetic - it makes me think of Romantic poet [name_m]Cyprian[/name_m] [name_m]Kamil[/name_m] Norwid.

Swashbuckling [name_m]Inigo[/name_m], like [name_m]Jones[/name_m]. [name_u]Or[/name_u] Montoya.

Lavrentiy. I’d like it very much if it wasn’t for Beria.

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[name_m]Evander[/name_m]
[name_f]Avalon[/name_f]
[name_u]Bennington[/name_u]
[name_m]Alessio[/name_m]
[name_m]Magnus[/name_m]
[name_m]Alessandro[/name_m]
Augustino
[name_m]Emiliano[/name_m]
Tenerife
Olivander
[name_m]Castiel[/name_m]
[name_m]Luciano[/name_m]
[name_m]Leonidas[/name_m]
[name_m]Niccolo[/name_m]
[name_m]Quintilian[/name_m]
[name_m]Wellington[/name_m]
[name_m]Whitaker[/name_m]
[name_u]Willoughby[/name_u]

@marysia [name_u]Love[/name_u] these! [name_m]Cyprian[/name_m] is very cool and artsy, [name_m]Florencio[/name_m] and Florentio are very grand, [name_m]Socrates[/name_m] is intriguing and bold, and I love [name_m]Galahad[/name_m] :slight_smile:

@samosier24 [name_f]Gorgeous[/name_f] options! [name_m]Evander[/name_m], [name_f]Avalon[/name_f], [name_m]Emiliano[/name_m] and [name_u]Willoughby[/name_u] are great!

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[name_m]Aurelius[/name_m]
[name_m]Cassander[/name_m]
[name_m]Demetrius[/name_m]
[name_m]Evander[/name_m]
[name_u]Finnegan[/name_u]
[name_u]Florian[/name_u]
[name_u]Hezekiah[/name_u]
[name_u]Kingsley[/name_u]
[name_m]Olivian[/name_m]
[name_m]Seraphim[/name_m]
[name_u]Thaddeus[/name_u]
[name_m]Zachariah[/name_m]

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[name_m]Maximillian[/name_m]
[name_m]Sandiago[/name_m]
[name_m]Benevolent[/name_m]
[name_m]Montague[/name_m]
[name_m]Roderick[/name_m]
[name_u]Adrien[/name_u]

@babynames17 ooh, [name_m]Cassander[/name_m], [name_m]Evander[/name_m], [name_u]Kingsley[/name_u], [name_u]Thaddeus[/name_u] and [name_m]Zachariah[/name_m] are wonderful :slight_smile:

@Victory55 [name_m]Montague[/name_m] is gorgeous! I sometimes call my guinea pig [name_m]Benvolio[/name_m] [name_m]Benevolent[/name_m] - it’s fun :slight_smile:

these are soooo up my alley!

[name_m]Alessandro[/name_m]
[name_m]Andreas[/name_m]
[name_m]Casimir[/name_m]
[name_u]Constantine[/name_u]
[name_m]Emiliano[/name_m]
[name_m]Ferdinand[/name_m]
[name_m]Fiorenzo[/name_m]
[name_m]Fitzwilliam[/name_m]
Florimond
[name_m]Giovanni[/name_m]
[name_m]Ignatius[/name_m] / [name_m]Ignacio[/name_m]
[name_u]Jericho[/name_u]
[name_m]Leonardo[/name_m]
[name_u]Nikola[/name_u]
[name_m]Octavius[/name_m]
[name_u]Odysseus[/name_u]
[name_m]Percival[/name_m]
[name_m]Tiberius[/name_m]
[name_u]Thaddeus[/name_u]
[name_m]Theodorus[/name_m]
[name_u]Valentine[/name_u]
[name_m]Wolfgang[/name_m]

and more!

My favs of these are Leonardo, Angelo/Michaelangelo and Orlando :grin: maybe sort of basic ones??? but these kinds of names overall are nms! Definitely reading through the suggestions for inspiration though :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

I had a thing for big ang bold names being in the middle name spot - still kind of do, here is my list of favourites
[name_m]Leonidas[/name_m], [name_m]Leonardo[/name_m], [name_m]Leopold[/name_m], [name_m]Lazarus[/name_m], [name_u]Thaddeus[/name_u], [name_m]Jeremiah[/name_m], [name_m]Zechariah[/name_m], [name_m]Marcellus[/name_m], [name_m]Thelonious[/name_m], [name_m]Mercutio[/name_m], [name_m]Tybalt[/name_m], [name_m]Mordecai[/name_m], [name_m]Beauregard[/name_m], [name_m]Barnabus[/name_m], [name_m]Balthazar[/name_m], [name_m]Amadeus[/name_m], [name_m]Zacharias[/name_m], [name_m]Ignatius[/name_m], [name_m]Wolfgang[/name_m], [name_u]Sylvester[/name_u], [name_m]Aloysius[/name_m], [name_m]Octavius[/name_m], [name_m]Heinrich[/name_m], [name_m]Henrich[/name_m], [name_m]Henrique[/name_m], [name_m]Alphonse[/name_m], [name_m]Emmerich[/name_m], [name_m]Ludwig[/name_m], [name_m]Theodore[/name_m], [name_m]Theodoric[/name_m].

I’ve been liking [name_m]Endymion[/name_m] since you’ve commented it on my thread “Nicknamey Names” I won’t spoil the name as to why but it’s truly nerd gaming related and it’s super subtle link.

@shorie [name_m]Angelo[/name_m]! How do I always forget Angelo!!

@Lysia [name_u]Thaddeus[/name_u], [name_m]Jeremiah[/name_m], [name_m]Mercutio[/name_m], [name_m]Ignatius[/name_m], [name_u]Sylvester[/name_u] and [name_m]Alphonse[/name_m] are great :slight_smile:
I’m intrigued about [name_m]Endymion[/name_m] now :grin: is is a bad link?

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@Greyblue I’ll message you :sweat_smile:

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acacius
adonis
ademir
achilles
afanasy
abraxas
algernon
aragorn
aramis
attila
aristeo
auberon
aurelius / aurelian
astrophel
beowulf
borealis
calixto
calistaro
carlisle
clement
crispin
daedalus
deveraux / devereaux
dimitri / demetrius / demetrio
dominic / domenico
desiderio / desiderius
dionysus
dragomir
eliseo
evander
felician
florent
florizel
galileo
hyperion
icarus
isidore
lancelot
lazarus
leopold
ludovic(o)
luminato
meridian
montague
nazario
nazareno
nicodemus
nikolai
nicanor
neptune
odilon
orlando
ozymandias
pendleton
pendragon
revelin
rochester
saturn / saturno / saturnino
serenus
solander
somereld
taliesin
tiberio / tiberius
valerian / valerio
ventura / venture
viridian
wolfgang
wolfhart
zebedee
zebulon
ziadore
zafiro / zafiris

sorry for any repetitions!

@vida thank you!!! Loving [name_m]Algernon[/name_m], [name_m]Acacius[/name_m], [name_m]Aramis[/name_m], [name_u]Carlisle[/name_u], [name_m]Lancelot[/name_m], [name_m]Montague[/name_m], [name_u]Meridian[/name_u], [name_m]Zebedee[/name_m], and Ziadore

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