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What are the names of the 'cool' boys in your childs school?

John

David

Stephen

Christopher

James Harry Donald and Eustace

Josh, Carter, Hal, Roman.

Coolness is a personality trait, it's not bestowed by a name.

All of DS's class are pretty square really!
Not sure there are many cool kids

Agree with SoupDragon!

A name can never MAKE someone cool or uncool. Whether someone is popular has to do with their personality, not their name.

I've known 'cool' guys whose names have ranged from Zubin to Quentin to Jayden to Peter!

<waves at piffle>

Quite, Soupy

Also agree that names are no indicator of 'coolness' imo.

Tends to work the other round, i think. We know a cool (or uncool) 'X' and then that name has this association for us.

Bruce, Victor, Donald, Redmond, Richie, Gus

I agree of course, a name doesn't make you cool, but if children had these names, I'd expect their parents to have good taste generally and be quite cool.

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Zac
Sid
Philpot
Gabe
Lenny

May I ask why?

Sam Charlie Zach Leon Carl Ben Luke William Edward Jack

According to the book 'Cool names for babies', a name has to end in 'o' to be truly 'cool'. For example: Otto, Cosmo, Bruno, Theo, Leo.

dh's favourite name is Quentin. I've heard (and read on MN) that is considered geeky and nerdy, which I thought was very judgemental as I agree with Soupy, surely a name doesn't 'make' a person?

So I thought, well if Quentin is 'nerdy' what is 'cool'? Hence the thread.

None of the Quentin's I know are 'geeky' - my 8 year old nephew is Quentin and he is very cool (not that I'm biased of course).

Isaac? Finn? Hugh? Bay Atlas... oh ok not that one

tricky one, I'd love to call a ds cosmo but DH won't let me!!Says he will sound like a gremlin- I think other 'o' names can be a bit 10 years ago now though-

Not sure about Quentin. I love Quentin Blake of course but all the other Quentins are, erm, less loved, and not cool, but could be ironically cool if that makes sense...

Cool boys in DD class;
Cassius
Isaac
Ben
Rufus
Marcus

I like Quentin pronounced with a French accent "Contan" but don't like the English way of saying it at all.

Jonny, Jonny cool

What a ridiculous question! I completely agree with Soupdragan (and others) that 'coolness' cannot be bestowed by a name! I find the concept quite ridiculous to be honest...

I happen to have known a very cool Quentin at Uni, universally known as 'Q' .

The op actually just asked for the names of the cool boys in your dc's school, not for names which made kids cool.

In dd1's class the cool boys are
Owen
Scott
Kannan
Nathan
Ciaran

my son has some pretty cool friends and their names are Dappo, Dempsey and Mason.

i personally think Hector is the coolest boys name closely followed by Huxley.

The other day someone said my DS2 had the "coolest name I've ever heard"

He's called Arlo...and he's pretty cool for a 2 yr old

Who wouldn't think their ds (and the name they gave him) was cool?