Quirky yet classically-hipster names?

[Anonymous]

Atticus, Milo / Miles, Stella, Hazel, Graham, Roxy, Mabel

[Anonymous]

Soren (I know three--2 on the east coast, and one on the west).

[Anonymous]

Gideon

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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

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

Yep

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://thoughtcatalog.com/j-ross-bianchi/2013/10/all-the-hipsters-are-dead/

Please stop calling these people hipsters. Just because someone lives in the city, has a trendy name and wears glasses doesn't mean they are a hipster.

About the link, I can't quite get a handle on where the writer is coming from...He seems to be saying there are a group of people (hipsters) who have decided to go all-in with being a hipster (like in the 1960s, young people actually might have been proud to call themselves Hippies); and that those people don't have the right to call themselves hipsters because all the TRUE hipsters are dead. Like they're all phonies and posers. Am I reading that right? Yet, you seem to be saying it upsets you to be labeled as a hipster because you live in the city with a trendy name and glasses (or your friends do, whatever), that maybe you are all of those things you're offended by being called hipster. I'm confused.

I have to wonder if hipsters actually would EVER identify themselves as hipsters (whereas when I was in school, people proudly labeled themselves as preps, jocks, punks, goths...). The writer of this article seems to think people wear the hipster label willingly, or that people would like to aspire to be hipsters, whereas I believe that nobody would actually appreciate being called a hipster because it means they're just like everybody else in a particular group when really, they'd like to think they're unique.

[Anonymous]

Just because someone uses a hipster name doesn't mean they are a hipster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Luca
Milo
August

Stella
Tabitha
Ivy

Haha two of the girl names are on my short list.

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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.

Yes, I think hipsters like Otis Redding. I don't think liking soul necessarily equals hipster (I mean, really, who doesn't like Otis Redding?), but I would guess anybody who fits the "hipster" mold who says they don't know or like Otis Redding might be shunned from the party.

[Anonymous]

Opal

Mabel

Pearl

Hattie

Dahlia

Eugenia

Eulalia

[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.

West Coast people can not be hipsters. It's the law.

[Anonymous]

Townsend

McCartney

Topanga

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://thoughtcatalog.com/j-ross-bianchi/2013/10/all-the-hipsters-are-dead/

Please stop calling these people hipsters. Just because someone lives in the city, has a trendy name and wears glasses doesn't mean they are a hipster.

About the link, I can't quite get a handle on where the writer is coming from...He seems to be saying there are a group of people (hipsters) who have decided to go all-in with being a hipster (like in the 1960s, young people actually might have been proud to call themselves Hippies); and that those people don't have the right to call themselves hipsters because all the TRUE hipsters are dead. Like they're all phonies and posers. Am I reading that right? Yet, you seem to be saying it upsets you to be labeled as a hipster because you live in the city with a trendy name and glasses (or your friends do, whatever), that maybe you are all of those things you're offended by being called hipster. I'm confused.

I have to wonder if hipsters actually would EVER identify themselves as hipsters (whereas when I was in school, people proudly labeled themselves as preps, jocks, punks, goths...). The writer of this article seems to think people wear the hipster label willingly, or that people would like to aspire to be hipsters, whereas I believe that nobody would actually appreciate being called a hipster because it means they're just like everybody else in a particular group when really, they'd like to think they're unique.

No one is unique and everyone is unique.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I disagree. Were the moms of Sophie and Isabella hipsters a few years back when those names were crazy popular? I think there's a general trend among all parents bringing back older names. But I do agree that "hipsters" are bringing back a certain type of older and quirky name. Maude, Otis, Felix. These names are old and kind of ugly (yet obviously endearing to some), as opposed to old and solid (Henry) or old and pretty/flowy/girly (Lillian, Isabella).

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mavis

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Myrtle, Edith, Beverly, Ramona