Unusual/Fantasy masculine/gender neutral name starting with "s"

Hi everyone! Maybe a bit of a specific request, but I’m searching for a name for a character in my story. The character in question is a young man in his early twenties, very outgoing and somewhat eccentric with a knack for purposefully annoying people. Ideally, I want a name starting with “s,” maybe with some punch/bite to it, that has a short/cute nickname available, but those are soft guidelines and not set in stone.

I’m not sure how to describe the type of names in my story - Cain, Ryder, Bea, and Remi are all names I’m using or have entertained because I felt they would fit with the vibe I want, and I’m not opposed to taking parts of names and fusing them to make something slightly unrealistic. It’s in a magical setting but I’m avoiding that type of traditionally complicated and unrealistic fantasy name, and also super common names like “John” or “Robert.”

[bonus background: originally, I wanted to derive his name from something having to do with ‘shrimp,’ like its scientific name or a species, because that’s the temporary nickname I’ve been using to refer to him lol (he’s short and has pinkish hair) but I can’t come up with anything good! And the name doesn’t have to start with “s,” I’m just leaning towards it!]

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Caridea! It works in fantasy & literally means “shrimp” in latin haha

[name_m]Plenty[/name_m] of nns too!

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Silvian; nicknames: [name_m]Sil[/name_m], Silv, Vian, etc. ; no shrimp connection though

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@skylerros @Johannaa I love both of these suggestions!! Things are shifting from me not having any name options to having a hard time choosing haha ^^

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Sylvan/Silvan
[name_m]Silas[/name_m]
[name_u]Silver[/name_u]
[name_u]Sage[/name_u]
Sacha/Sasha
[name_m]Skandar[/name_m]

I’m not aware of any names that mean shrimp.

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[name_u]Sage[/name_u] is really really cute, but unfortunately not the vibe I’m looking for - I’ll have to keep that in mind for other characters! Thank you for these!

[name_m]Steffan[/name_m]
[name_m]Stellan[/name_m]
[name_m]Soren[/name_m]

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Is [name_u]Seth[/name_u] too straight forward?

[name_u]Seth[/name_u]
[name_m]Stan[/name_m]
[name_u]Sydney[/name_u] [name_u]Syd[/name_u] for short?

Could you call him Sturg short for Sturgeon… as a surname… it goes with your fish theme?

Maybe [name_m]Serafin[/name_m]? He could have the nickname [name_u]Rafe[/name_u] or [name_u]Finn[/name_u]. Doesn’t have any shrimp connections though, as far as I’m aware :sweat_smile:

I like [name_m]Silas[/name_m] and [name_m]Stan[/name_m] maybe even [name_m]Stefan[/name_m]