Ezra or Loki?!

CoteDAzur has noticed the same thing I posted previously on another thread, and then got subsequently fed up with trying to explain to people who were either being facetious or refused to acknowledge the workings of the real world. The problem with Chardonnay is not that we saw it in Footballers' Wives, it's that historically nobody has ever done well with a name which is a well known wine. The most well known being Margaux Hemingway, who was quite successful herself but eventually got so fed up with it that she changed it to Margot - even though that wine itself, I must say, is brilliant and quite classy. I think Ezra sounds quite wise and heroic, and as real life shows, you can be both a writer or a pop singer with it, and it is probably not unusual at all in Israel or Jewish circles. Fionn/Finn ok too, Phineas is probably just about safe at the moment, but we are trying to advise against Loki !! Luka = Luke, both are nice, Luke being the physician and author of one of the four Gospels.
OP -I didn't know Jago was Cornish. Well then, it is v cool. How about Gorran ("hero") or Cubert (saint's name) or Denzel (from place name meaning high stronghold)...here's where I looked www.babynamenetwork.com/Baby-Names/1/Cornish/All-Genders.htm. My vote is that Gorran fits in with Jago best (I know of someone who had the surname Jago but not first name).

Ezra means helper. Great name! From Old Testament. There's the poet Ezra Pound, who had a very interesting life and seems to have held very strong principles - see what you think. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound
I don't think too many people would get it confused with a girl's name in Britain. Ezra Koenig is the lead singer of the band Vampire Weekend, so it would be quite wellknown amongst teenagers at the moment.

Loki....ahem. Not much about the meaning I could find, possibly "to break" from an Indo-European origin. Mischief maker among the Norse gods. Maybe best as a nickname, not much to recommend here.

Phineas was a character (or one of two named Phineas) in Greek mythology en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas....hmm, he seems to have rather played second fiddle to Zeus and Jason! If it is going to be shortened to Finn, the original Finn or Fionn (Irish) is much more heroic - the warrior Fionn Mac Cumhaill from Irish and Scottish mythology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhaill. Happy choosing!

Ezra

We were going to call dd Ezra (when we thought she would be a boy). I think it is a fab name, and for me has more of a chapel association than a Jewish one.

I have a very unusual name. Not unique but very unusual (never met another). I always have to spell it, or help people to pronounce it. It's never bothered me because I always get very positive comments (and if I wanted a more common name I could us a shortening it shares with a popular 70s name). dh on the other hand has the most popular name for his year. He didn't share it at school, but at university there were lots of them (six or seven in our circle of friends) and it wasn't great.

Another thought- how about Lauchie, short for lachlan? Not a million miles from Loki but a hell of a nicer name!

Jago and Ezekiel (Zeke)?

Jago and Lev or Levi?

Kernow
Rowse
Jory

Jethro, then

You're thinking Lucifer. Lucian means light (same root as Lucille or the Beckhams' Luz.)

Jago is same root as Iago so how about googling a list of Shakespeare's characters?

Loki is my friends dogs name...

Oddly enough we have an Ezra at my PN group. I also know someone with a Loki and they loved it at first but it faded, so he's a Luke now, or Lukey :)

You know what it's like for unusual names, we've had a spate of different boys names [Stanley, Bruno, Gus, Jonah, Rohan], but the girls are all called Scarlett, Lily or Emily [well, apart from mine]. I still have to meet someone with a baby named the same as mine, I know it will happen. My name was unusual when we first moved to this area, the local primary school thought I was a boy until I turned up :) went to secondary school and I was one of 5 girls.

Quinn will get called Quim!

Denzil

I really like Ezra. Loki - I agree, sweet on a five year old but a bit odd for an adult.

I know a baby Elijah - in a few years there might be 6 in every class:)

Re cultural heritage etc...We chose two biblical names for our kids despite being non-religious. So shoot us.

Jago & Jared?

Other names that might go with Jago

Quinn
Lucian

Ezekiel.

Thank you. [bows]

I quite like them both.

FWIW- we named our DS one of the most common old fashioned names ever. (After a beloved GF). A bit like Stephen. Everybody kind of raises their eyebrows as they expected us to go for somethuing unusual. But I am convinced he will be the only one in his class- and for several years as it is WAY out of favour. (Although one family member groaned and said it was 'boring' and calls him by his middle name instead which fucks me right off.)

Loki makes me think of lochia!! No, No, No, and it sounds made up too.

Not overly keen on Ezra either but at least it's a 'proper' name

raven - I can assure you that the vast majority of HR directors and recruiters don't think that way.

I think the argument in freakenomics is that people with odd, lower-class, names do worse in life not because of their name but because they have the type of parents that give them that name. He suggests that even if you changed that child's name from, say, jayden to William,it won't change their outcome. They will still have the same disadvantages of class and aptitude.

Actually - on the recruitment/CVs thing:

If I were choosing between two candidates with identical qualifications - & if I were minded to entertain prejudices about background - I'd be jolly tempted to pick Chardonnay, not Charlotte, on the basis that she'd probably had to work harder to acquire those qualifications.

It'd be foolish & presumptive of me, obviously, but it'd make more sense than the other way round.

DH and I are both Welsh, as are all our families. DS's first and middle names are English. Is that okay?

[tongue very possibly in cheek]

Had a great-uncle called Idris as well?

My hiking pole is a Leki - reminded me of Loki. How about Luka - one of the docs in ER (Kovac, played by Goran Visnjic)? Not sure about Ezra, original though.