We wanted a surfer type name for our boy,does this name work?

[name]Shay[/name] [name]Christian[/name]
We are also considering Ethan Daniel.

I think it could work, yes… However, some others could be:
[name]Dean[/name]
[name]Matt[/name]
[name]Sebastian[/name]
[name]Taylor[/name]

They’re very generic names, though. So if you’re going for something a bit quirky then I think [name]Shay[/name] is great.

[name]Shay[/name] strikes me as very feminine.
Here is a list I found when I did a bit of Googling. Aquatic & Surfer Boy Names for Your Beach Baby – SheKnows
I think Caulder is cool. [name]Bodhi[/name]? [name]Teegan[/name]?
Oh, how about [name]Dashiell[/name] with a nickname [name]Dash[/name]?

It doesn’t feel surfer-cool at all. It’s an androgynous Irish surname.

[name]Kai[/name] [name]Christian[/name] would be much better…

I love [name]Bodhi[/name] and [name]Teegan[/name]. Very surfer-like.

I actually know a [name]Kai[/name] [name]Christian[/name] - he’s a 1 year old and very cool.

I grew up in a surfing community. Some of the names there were (although most of them had nn’s lol) [name]Dax[/name], [name]Manu[/name] (Maori), Maz (a well known surfer in [name]New[/name] Zealand), [name]Kai[/name] or Kailani, there was also a [name]Shay[/name] but he was a bit of a dick so I don’t like that name cos of that, [name]Bodhi[/name] is a good one too, [name]Archer[/name], [name]Asher[/name], [name]Johnny[/name]/[name]Jonny[/name] ([name]Johnny[/name] [name]Utah[/name] from Point Break!), [name]Zen[/name], [name]Eli[/name], [name]Leo[/name].
All the other surfers I know have ‘normal’ names like [name]Ben[/name], [name]Matt[/name], [name]Daniel[/name], [name]Ryan[/name] etc etc
Good luck!

My current favorite surfer boy name is Bodhi Kai. I would use it in a heartbeat, but it has been officially vetoed by my (non-surfer) SO.

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I think in SoCal, the stereotypical surfer names are things like [name]Cody[/name]/[name]Bodhi[/name]/[name]Jody[/name]/[name]Brody[/name] or [name]Dakota[/name]/[name]Sierra[/name].