Not millennial hipster:
Milo (and Otis, the movie)
Willa (Cather)
Jasper (Johns)

Love Aris and Willa

Anonymous wrote:OP here- interesting everyone assumes I'm a millennial...born in 1973 actually

I was born in 1966, so also not a millennial.

I love the name Silas, and would have had it on my list when I was pregnant with DS1 18 years ago. I.e., long before there were hipsters, lol. Alas, it sounds lousy with our last name.

Willa is lovely.

I'm sorry OP, I don't like any of them either. I tend to like very classic names (Elizabeth, Mary) or very weird names. Your list is a bit to current and trendy for my tastes. Good luck.

oys:

Silas - too popular
Jasper - reminds me of pets
Milo - too popular
Aris - are you greek? Best of the choices

Girls:

Lyra "lee-ra" - OK
Willa - OK - best of the options
Aria - no
Calla - too trendy
Katya - are you eastern european?
Serena - OK

I like Katya and Serena ok but not any of the others.

Anonymous wrote:OP here- interesting everyone assumes I'm a millennial...born in 1973 actually

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Me too, OP. I have a little Silas. Love his name -- no one seems to have difficulty pronouncing or spelling it, either. Except when he was a preschooler and his little friend called him "Si-wiss".

No thank you - also some are deceptively hard to pronounce such as Aris and Lila. Serena is ok though and maybe Silas isn't too bad

Lyra sounds like a prescription drug.
Milo sounds like a pet's name.
Willa sounds harsh and unappealing.

Back to the drawing board, OP.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Silas - HATE
Jasper - are ya British? it's okay. If you're American, seems better suited for a dog. If in the UK, it's fine
Milo - HATE
Aris - HATE

Lyra "lee-ra" - not good, not awful
Willa - awful
Aria - not good
Calla - clunky, not good
Katya - are ya Russian? or a former prima ballerina? if so, it's fine.
Serena - ugly

This. Also the boys are painfully hipster-ish, trying too hard. Just awful. Also, while I actually like Katya, it's a nickname really. Maybe Katarina, and call her Katya.

Trying too hard to what?

Also, what constitutes trying hard enough, or not trying hard enough?

Trying too hard to be cool. The names are bad, Bad, BAD. Milo makes me laugh, it's such a hipster stereotype. The boys names are especially amusing. The girls' names are just ugly, except Katya. Which is just meh.

Anonymous wrote:Boys:
Silas - no
Jasper - maybe
Milo - no
Aris - NO

Girls:
Lyra "lee-ra" - NO!
Willa - love
Aria - no
Calla - no. It has a beautiful meaning, but it is clunky
Katya - no
Serena - sure

That is a try hard list.

I think Willa is great (Willa Cather's a pretty awesome writer), and Serena's pretty, too.

Jasper for boys, though I'm partial to Silas but also think it's too hipster-ish (and I'm another 70s baby, OP).

OP here- interesting everyone assumes I'm a millennial...born in 1973 actually