Quirky yet classically-hipster names?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am so confused by the white woman who grew up in Florida, now lives in Southern CA and named her two daughters India and Karis. The first is weird and the second is weird AND ugly.

Carys is a Welsh name meaning love. Great name. Maybe that is what she was going for but misspelled it.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kids of hipsters I know:

Goldie
Mary Lou
Gus
River

Please tell me about the hipsters you know? I really want to hear where you live.

Goldie is the daughter of a high school friend who is a librarian married to a chef. Both have obscure literary reference tattoos (the parents, not baby Goldie). Mary Lou and Gus's parents are related to DH, also in creative fields. West Coast, Quaker wedding ceremony, bride wore glasses, live music by groomsman's "experimental Carribbean-punk" band. You may peg River's parents as neohippies or but I would categorize them as midwestern academic hipster: Mom quilts, Dad wears tiny clothes and has fussy facial hair maintained with a vintage shaving kit, both teach quirky subjects, play weird string instruments, speak of Brooklyn as if it's Agrestic. None of the aforementioned would self-identify as hipster, and now that elderly family members identify them as such perhaps the term has jumped the shark. I live in deepest darkest suburbia, drive an SUV, and gave my kids Top 10 names, so maybe *I'm* the hipster now.

Is this real or are you the original author of the "describe the family based on names" post?

Does it matter? I don't think so. I loved that post/series of posts and love this description.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gus, Otis and similar elderly-gent type names

My DH wanted this so badly for our DS, but it was for Otis Redding, not any kind of hipster reasons. Or maybe liking soul is hipster? I would guess not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Clementine (x2)
Holden (girl)

I know you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids of hipsters I know:

Goldie
Mary Lou
Gus
River

Please tell me about the hipsters you know? I really want to hear where you live.

Goldie is the daughter of a high school friend who is a librarian married to a chef. Both have obscure literary reference tattoos (the parents, not baby Goldie). Mary Lou and Gus's parents are related to DH, also in creative fields. West Coast, Quaker wedding ceremony, bride wore glasses, live music by groomsman's "experimental Carribbean-punk" band. You may peg River's parents as neohippies or but I would categorize them as midwestern academic hipster: Mom quilts, Dad wears tiny clothes and has fussy facial hair maintained with a vintage shaving kit, both teach quirky subjects, play weird string instruments, speak of Brooklyn as if it's Agrestic. None of the aforementioned would self-identify as hipster, and now that elderly family members identify them as such perhaps the term has jumped the shark. I live in deepest darkest suburbia, drive an SUV, and gave my kids Top 10 names, so maybe *I'm* the hipster now.

Is this real or are you the original author of the "describe the family based on names" post?

Does it matter? I don't think so. I loved that post/series of posts and love this description.

Ha! I thought they were great too. It only matters because I am curious if the parents described actually exist or if they are a caricature of hipsters based on some baby names.

[Anonymous]

Hah -- I'm the OP of that comment in the other thread, and indeed our DC's name has been mentioned on this thread. It's okay, I accept it. I still love the name. When I said quirky-yet-classic I meant something that has been used as a proper name for hundreds of years, but is uncommon now. Perhaps I should have said quirky-yet-established.

[Anonymous]

The Carys posts make me think of the now-ubiquitous Caitlin and all its variations.

It's pronounced Kathleen in Ireland, but now all of a sudden there are tons of "Kate-lynns."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Carys posts make me think of the now-ubiquitous Caitlin and all its variations.

It's pronounced Kathleen in Ireland, but now all of a sudden there are tons of "Kate-lynns."

It's pronounced Kate-lynn here, though.

[Anonymous]

I have two sets of hipster friends who each used Felix. Archer is another one.

My more preppy DC friends tend towards Henry (yes I know three).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Atticus
August
Hazel
Matilda

We moved here from Brooklyn, and I know at least one kid under five with each of there names.

The only one of these names that screams Hipster is Atticus, mainly because it has never been a popular name and the only reference anybody has to it is from Atticus Finch. August, Hazel and Matilda, on the other hand, could be family names (probably aren't, but more likely than Atticus) and just seem more widely used throughout history.

Full disclosure: one of these names was the top contender for my child's first name, but dh could never quite commit. So it's DC's middle name

[Anonymous]

Opal
Mabel
Olive
Ida
Jericho
Myles
Gideon
Samson

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Atticus
August
Hazel
Matilda

We moved here from Brooklyn, and I know at least one kid under five with each of there names.

The only one of these names that screams Hipster is Atticus, mainly because it has never been a popular name and the only reference anybody has to it is from Atticus Finch. August, Hazel and Matilda, on the other hand, could be family names (probably aren't, but more likely than Atticus) and just seem more widely used throughout history.

Full disclosure: one of these names was the top contender for my child's first name, but dh could never quite commit. So it's DC's middle name

Those names made PPs list because "hipsters" are the folks bringing old names back into fashion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Carys posts make me think of the now-ubiquitous Caitlin and all its variations.

It's pronounced Kathleen in Ireland, but now all of a sudden there are tons of "Kate-lynns."

It's pronounced Kate-lynn here, though.

Only because someone saw the Irish name and mispronounced it. Kind of like if we saw Sean and pronounced it SEEN.

[Anonymous]

Fun fact: according to this thread, apparently I chose hipster names for all four cats I had during my childhood.

[Anonymous]

Freida

Gwendolyn