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Original poster

Names like Vita, but for a boy.

56 replies

TyrannosaurusRights · 30/11/2021 22:54

I love the name Vita for a girl. Someone on a recent thread described it as

Has that ''glamorous and slightly scandalous doyenne of 1920s intellectual society set' vibe for me.

Which is a fantastic description.

But I’m having a boy - so help me find an equally fabulous name for him.

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TyrannosaurusRights · 01/12/2021 11:17

Some great options being added to the list here. Thanks all

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Skeumorph · 01/12/2021 10:57

Kim is brilliant for a boy.

Victor, Vincent, Kit, Jago, Jolyon all ace.

toastofthetown · 01/12/2021 09:55

I love Vita! Other names I love are
August
Casimir
Gideon
Jago
Lysander
Peter
Robin
Stellan
Vincent

VenusClapTrap · 01/12/2021 09:03

Edgar

VenusClapTrap · 01/12/2021 08:58

Oh and Kay! As in Kay Harker in the Box of Delights.

VenusClapTrap · 01/12/2021 08:57

Tristan
Guy
Lucian
Eric
Conrad
Kim (I know it’s become very much a girls name; but I still love it for a boy!)

AuntieStella · 01/12/2021 06:37

Agree with Jay (as in Gatsby)

Or Sebastian (as in Flyte) or even Aloysius (as in his teddy)

Fizzysticks · 01/12/2021 04:54

Viggo/Vigo

LadyGAgain · 30/11/2021 23:59

I work with Vito. He's ace!

DellaPorter · 30/11/2021 23:42

Rufus

DellaPorter · 30/11/2021 23:40

Lucian
Lysander
Piers

DellaPorter · 30/11/2021 23:39

Heath
Fabian

DellaPorter · 30/11/2021 23:39

Hugo
Felix
Atticus

Fleur405 · 30/11/2021 23:36

Vito - short for Vitorio. I’m half Italian and know a few. It’s maybe a bit of an old man’s name but they are coming back in fashion!

DellaPorter · 30/11/2021 23:36

Jasper

DellaPorter · 30/11/2021 23:34

Aubrey
Aldous
Sebastian
Victor
Hereward
Aeneas
Duncan
Alaric
Cecil
Byron
Clement
Maurice
Guy
Valentine
Claud
Cyril
Kenneth
Peregrine
Warwick
Leonard
Ronald
Hamish
Anthony
Terence
Gilbert
Christopher
Nelson
Philip
Serge
Julian
Ivor
Basil
Siegfried
Denis
Alix
Lytton
Julian
Ernest
Robin
Hugh
Rex

sandgrown · 30/11/2021 23:33

Surely it would be Vito . The masculine form of Vita and my grandson’s second name after his grandad .

HunkyPunk · 30/11/2021 23:30

Aldous (Huxley)

Associated with the ‘Bloomsbury Set’

lunarlandscape · 30/11/2021 23:21

Names with that 20s vibe:
Cosmo
Lazlo
Jay (as in Gatsby)
Aubrey
Rafe
Oscar

TheVanguardSix · 30/11/2021 23:19

Rex
Vincent
Cyrus
Giles
Leander
Otto
Ambrose
Alistair
Lucian
Evander
Dashiell
Ivor
Ansel
Alaric
Blaise
Silas

Laureatus · 30/11/2021 23:11

Vita being synonymous with Vita Sackville-West of course - she was actually Victoria, called Vita for short.

I'm not sure many men's names are automatically considered the same way as men haven't challenged or broken down social barriers in the way women like Vita S-W and Virginia Woolf did. Many of the quite iconic 20's blokes had quite normal first names!

But maybe these names might work, not just from the 20s:
Byron
Auberon
Branwell (as in Brontë)
Dorian (as in Dorian Gray)
Lytton (as in Strachey)
Quentin (as in Bell)
Sebastian (as in Flyte, from Brideshead Revisited, very 20s).
Jay as in Jay Gatsby.

IamnotwhouthinkIam · 30/11/2021 23:10

I love Vita, whether on it's own or as a nn for Victoria. If you go on ONS they have a downloadable list of the top 100 names for each decade since 1904 - some of ones from the 1910's-30's that are like Vita in style imo might be Victor, Edgar (Ned?), Hugh, Raymond (Ray?), Ivor (Ivo?), Leonard, Alfred, Wilfred (Wilf?), Ernest, Laurence (Laurie?), Christopher (Kit?), Bertram (Bram?)....

MaizeBlouse · 30/11/2021 23:08

Nico
Cosmo
Raif
Walter

mineofuselessinformation · 30/11/2021 23:08

Vitali surely?

Newnews · 30/11/2021 23:07

I also love Vita but I think I mainly love it because it’s unusual but sounds familiar - not sure if that makes sense. Boys names that I’ve heard and liked:

Orrin
Luca
Niall
Atlas
Archer
Hudson
Nathanial
Xander
Zachary
Wylder