Thoughts on "hippy" names?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a fun category of names called, I think, surfer names. They are short and breezy, but without the woo-hoo aspect of the hippy names.

I need to hear these surfer names! The only surfer names I know are Orion and Kai.

I used to be a hippie. Hippies I have known:

Sativa
Cedar
Crag
Heron
Sunshine
Harvest
Bodhi

I would put Bodhi in the surfer column.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mars is the god of war. It is a masculine and violent name. So I would not name a girl that AND I would not consider it a hippy dippy name!

Generally I think hippy names are fine and these days they will be super fine. All the resume stuff we think will not be an issue in 20-30 years because all these kids are getting names and there are a million think pieces about not judging names. And this is a good thing. But the people reviewing your kids resume is going to be a current gen z-er, the most accepting and do your thing generation ever.

But don't name your daughter after the god of war.

+1 and he wasn't even a cool god or anything. He cried and threw tantrums whenever he got hurt and he was a jerk. If you're going to go with a name from mythology, at least choose a mythical figure who isn't an a-hole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if Arrow was gay?

Thay would be so funny!

I know a boy called Willow and he gets made fun of. He compensates by being super aggressive. I wonder if they would have the same result if they called him William, Warren, Winston, etc...

This reminds me of Johnny Cash’s song, A Boy Named Sue.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tA1Pey1bHFk

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mars is the god of war. It is a masculine and violent name. So I would not name a girl that AND I would not consider it a hippy dippy name!

Generally I think hippy names are fine and these days they will be super fine. All the resume stuff we think will not be an issue in 20-30 years because all these kids are getting names and there are a million think pieces about not judging names. And this is a good thing. But the people reviewing your kids resume is going to be a current gen z-er, the most accepting and do your thing generation ever.

But don't name your daughter after the god of war.

+1 and he wasn't even a cool god or anything. He cried and threw tantrums whenever he got hurt and he was a jerk. If you're going to go with a name from mythology, at least choose a mythical figure who isn't an a-hole.

Also the symbol for Mars features an arrow and is also the symbol for males.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male#Symbol

[Anonymous]

I think you should keep looking.
There's more unique names out there if Charlotte and George aren't your taste.
But please don't name your kid Arrow or Mars.
What's your ethnic heritage? Perhaps lookup some names from that.

[Anonymous]

I think hippy dippy names are fine as middle names. We gave our daughter one actually. But for first names I don’t love them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always loved "nature" names and I let DH talk me out of it for resume type reasons: River, Sunny, Willow, Winter, Sage, Luna, Summer. My kids ended up with more sedate, traditional names and I secretly regret it. Go for it.

I have a Sunny, formal name Susannah.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What names are you thinking of?

I like a lot of mild hippie names like Wren and Sage. Lyric is pretty. I love Jagger and Hart (celebrity names).

Sage and Wren are pretty mainstream.

https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names-sage-3969.htm

https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names-wren-18245.htm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if Arrow was gay?

Thay would be so funny!

I know a boy called Willow and he gets made fun of. He compensates by being super aggressive. I wonder if they would have the same result if they called him William, Warren, Winston, etc...

This reminds me of Johnny Cash’s song, A Boy Named Sue.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tA1Pey1bHFk

The Man in Blacks sings the Truth!

Imagine if he was Buck Cash!

[Anonymous]

While you’re at it, stop shaving your legs and underarms, wear Jesus creepers with socks (Birkenstock’s), burn Petrulli, grow dreads, stop taking baths or showers and eat granola.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While you’re at it, stop shaving your legs and underarms, wear Jesus creepers with socks (Birkenstock’s), burn Petrulli, grow dreads, stop taking baths or showers and eat granola.

What's Petrulli?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While you’re at it, stop shaving your legs and underarms, wear Jesus creepers with socks (Birkenstock’s), burn Petrulli, grow dreads, stop taking baths or showers and eat granola.

What's Petrulli?

An Italian village that hippies apparently hate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always loved "nature" names and I let DH talk me out of it for resume type reasons: River, Sunny, Willow, Winter, Sage, Luna, Summer. My kids ended up with more sedate, traditional names and I secretly regret it. Go for it.

I have three family members with the above names.

[Anonymous]

I asked about this also because I know someone who has a Clover and Tansy.

I don't like it at all. I think YOU can be nature loving, artsy, and quirky..but don't saddle your daughter with Clover.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While you’re at it, stop shaving your legs and underarms, wear Jesus creepers with socks (Birkenstock’s), burn Petrulli, grow dreads, stop taking baths or showers and eat granola.

What's Petrulli?

I think they meant Patchouli

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patchouli