Strangley Weird, Super Confusing Hipster Names?

General Name Discussion
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So, I recently stumbled across this author, [name]California[/name] [name]Ross[/name]è, and can’t seem to put her books down. They’re sad, but amazing. I’ve read two of her fiction books (“Monsters & Ladybugs” and “Tell Me Your Name”) as well as her autobiography (“Call Me [name]California[/name]: I’ve Learned That I Know Nothing”) and the one thing I cannot get past are the NAMES she gives her fictional characters! She beings hipster names to a whole new level! For example:

*[name]Mainstream[/name]
*Foreshadow
*[name]Indie[/name]
*To-Morrow
*Ryver
*Understanding
*[name]Welcome[/name]
*Weekend

So, out of curiousity: What are your most hipster names you can think of?

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…hah. Ew.
I think that the worst name on that list is To-Morrow. Tomorrow alone is awful, but adding the dash in there? This is a question I have to the general population - WHY WOULD YOU PUT PUNCTUATION IN YOUR CHILD’S NAME?
Otherwise…[name]Mainstream[/name] is awful, too…That’s hardly a name.

Okay, change of systems. Rather than picking which ones are awful, I’m going to pick which ones aren’t - and there’s only one. I think [name]Indie[/name] is fine, but that’s because I know two.

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I’m not liking any of the names, except maybe [name]Indie[/name] and [name]River[/name] (NOT Ryver).

I actually like a lot of “hipster” names like [name]Oscar[/name], [name]Hugo[/name], [name]Arlo[/name], [name]Miles[/name], [name]Dashiell[/name], [name]Violet[/name], [name]Scarlett[/name], [name]Iris[/name], [name]Alice[/name], and [name]Ruby[/name].

When I think of “hipster” names, I think of these:

Boys:
[name]Atticus[/name]
[name]Rufus[/name]
[name]Duke[/name]
[name]Moses[/name]
[name]Hopper[/name]
[name]Sylvester[/name]
[name]Lionel[/name]
[name]Otis[/name]
[name]Ray[/name]

Girls:
[name]Harper[/name]
[name]Luna[/name]
[name]Lulu[/name]
[name]Indigo[/name]
[name]Ione[/name]
[name]Olive[/name]
[name]Poppy[/name]

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[name]Neal[/name] Stephenson has two characters named [name]Hiro[/name] Protagonist and Yours [name]Truly[/name] (YT for short) – which I actually love. Hipster? Not quite. There’s a blogger whose kids are named Soul and Glow, which I’ve always thought was eye-rollingly pretentious.

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I actually like [name]Indie[/name], but the thought of kids running around with names like To-Morrow or [name]Mainstream[/name] just makes me sad!
And I totally agree with @christabel. When I think of “hipster” names, I think of ones with a vintage-y, steam-punk feel to them.

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Let’s start with this: [name]California[/name] [name]Ross[/name]è is amazing, though I like her pen name [[name]California[/name] [name]Starr[/name]] a lot better than I like her real last name. [name]Ross[/name]è is a violent-sounding last name to me.

I absolutely love her names. They’re very unique and definitely catch your attention, as a matter of fact, that’s how I read her first book, the title was “Careless in [name]November[/name]” and it sounded okay, so I picked it up and read the back, and I was like: “Woah, did she really name her main character Wanderlust?” and she did. Ms. [name]Starr[/name] is a unique person and a unique author. I definitely love “Tell Me Your Name” ([name]How[/name] is it not as famous as some of the [terrible] books out there?), “Talking to the Dead”, “Careless in [name]November[/name]”, “Blind”, “Trade Mistakes”, and “Flowers for a Ghost”.

My all-time favourite [name]California[/name] [name]Starr[/name] names out there, though are:

Whereas
Wanderlust
Coffee
Trivyal
Everlasting
[name]Mainstream[/name]
Foreshadow
Dysmay
Mizree
[name]Galaxy[/name]
Stary
February
[name]Saturday[/name]
[name]Iverson[/name]
[name]Ryker[/name]
and [name]Indie[/name] [Okay, but what [name]California[/name] [name]Starr[/name] fan doesn’t love [name]Indie[/name]?]

Though, I think her names are more Pasten-Vagabond than Hipster. Hipster names, to me, at least, are more: [name]Iris[/name], [name]Layla[/name], and [name]Sylvester[/name] type names.

See, [name]California[/name] is a Pasten-Vagabond (said so in her autobiography [which is halarious]) and I remember Googling to find out what that was, and apparently their names come from something that was important to them, so I guess in their culture, names like these are pretty popular, I have no idea. I just love them.

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There was a thread a week or so ago about books and names. Seeing these names on the blurb of a novel would make me roll my eyes and put it down I’m afraid.

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Those aren’t hipster names, that would be [name]Otis[/name], [name]Bruno[/name], [name]Dolly[/name]…

Never heard of this person but Everlasting is a guilty pleasure. Those flowers are gorgeous but I feel I’d be tempting fate by naming a child that

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I’ve had cats named [name]Miles[/name] and [name]Arlo[/name]. Maybe I’m hipper than I thought. lol

10

Omg those names are dreadful… I agree… Ryver Blech… So horrible I might have nightmares

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Yep me too. And going “I’m not a hipster! I’m a Pasten-Vagabond!” would make me roll my eyes so hard they’d just about fall out of my skull. [name]How[/name] pretentious.

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Ooh, who said that?
And I fail to see how it’s pretentious. . .

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Mainstream?!? That made me laugh, because I’m one of those people who “Swim Upstream because Downstream is too Mainstream”, but I’m not hipster :slight_smile:

I did see three sisters on Instagram called Gentle, [name]Valiant[/name] and Magnificent. That’s a bit too crazy, but they suit their names.