Ezra or Loki?!

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Both quite unusual names I know. Theory is choosing a name so that he is the only child of that name in his class at school. My 1st son is Jago and it really suits him. What do u think of these 2 names, I also like Phineas but worried it's a mouthful with our 3 sylable surname begining with N. Ideas welcome. Thanks.

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?

Jethro, then

Jago and Ezekiel (Zeke)?

Jago and Lev or Levi?

Kernow
Rowse
Jory

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

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.

Ezra

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!

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).