Poetic names

General Name Discussion
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I have been thinking about some names based on famous poets. Which ones do you like and any other suggestions?

Byron - boy
[name_u]Shelly[/name_u] / [name_u]Shelley[/name_u] - unisex
[name_u]Blake[/name_u] - unisex
[name_m]Milton[/name_m] - boy
[name_m]Tennyson[/name_m] - boy
[name_u]Wilde[/name_u] - unisex
[name_m]Manley[/name_m] - boy
[name_f]Sappho[/name_f] - girl
[name_u]Emmerson[/name_u] - boy
[name_u]Owen[/name_u] - boy
[name_m]Oliver[/name_m] - boy (after [name_f]Mary[/name_f] [name_m]Oliver[/name_m])
[name_f]Bronte[/name_f] - unisex

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I love [name_f]Sappho[/name_f] and [name_u]Owen[/name_u]! Would also throw in [name_u]Carson[/name_u], [name_m]Leo[/name_m], and [name_f]Louisa[/name_f]!

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Manley is an interesting idea. [name_u]Love[/name_u] the poetry of [name_m]Gerard[/name_m] [name_m]Manley[/name_m] Hopkins.
[name_u]Frost[/name_u]
Cummings
[name_m]Lowell[/name_m]
Browning
[name_u]Porter[/name_u]

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Of your list, I love [name_m]Byron[/name_m]! Also [name_u]Emerson[/name_u], [name_m]Oliver[/name_m] and [name_u]Blake[/name_u]… and [name_m]Tennyson[/name_m] is pretty cool!

I’ll add:

Auden
[name_u]Clare[/name_u]
[name_u]Collins[/name_u]
[name_u]Eliot[/name_u]
[name_m]Langston[/name_m]
[name_u]Marlowe[/name_u]
[name_m]Nash[/name_m]
Rossetti
[name_m]Thomas[/name_m]

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I love [name_u]Clare[/name_u], [name_u]Eliot[/name_u] and [name_u]Marlowe[/name_u]. [name_u]Auden[/name_u] would be very cool. Wasn’t [name_u]Collins[/name_u] the name of the daughter in The Blind Side?

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Yeah, I think so! I know of a young [name_u]Collins[/name_u] too (also a girl).

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Barrett
[name_m]Dickinson[/name_m]
[name_u]Brooks[/name_u]
[name_m]Bishop[/name_m]
[name_f]Maya[/name_f] - love the name [name_f]Maya[/name_f] as is!
[name_m]Edgar[/name_m]-[name_m]Alan[/name_m] maybe? [name_u]Poe[/name_u] doesn’t work as a first name for me.
[name_u]Alcott[/name_u]
[name_u]Austen[/name_u]
[name_m]William[/name_m]- a lot of various poets named [name_m]William[/name_m]
[name_u]Shel[/name_u]
[name_m]Langston[/name_m]
[name_m]Kipling[/name_m]

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Clare is my middle name, after the poet xx

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My favorites are [name_u]Owen[/name_u] and [name_m]Oliver[/name_m], and I would throw in [name_f]Sylvia[/name_f], [name_f]Maya[/name_f]/Marguerite, [name_f]Angelou[/name_f], [name_u]Auden[/name_u], and [name_f]Emily[/name_f].

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Shelley/Shelley – (girl) seems very dated to me. I can not picture a baby with this name

Blake – (unisex) love it

Tennyson & [name_u]Wilde[/name_u] – (boy) would consider for a mn

Emerson – (unisex) great name

Owen & [name_m]Oliver[/name_m] – (boy) live it

Bronte – (girl) good mn

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Whitman
Sandburg
[name_u]Baldwin[/name_u]
[name_m]Thoreau[/name_m]
Bysse
[name_u]Percy[/name_u]
[name_u]Keats[/name_u]
[name_u]Yeats[/name_u]