'Hipster' names?

[babybumblebeee]

Having a chat with a friend today about what we consider to be hipster names.

Some names mentioned were Matilda, Florence, Esme, Felix, Leo, Finn, Oscar

What would you add to the list? I am particularly interested as these are the type of name I go for and am trying to work on a list!

[groak]

Farrah

Archie

Florence

Nice, but sort of retro modern, ifkwim, But, everu one will have different opinions..

[babybumblebeee]

I think you're right in that they're old names (not standard classics) that are popular at the moment. I quite like Otto which feels quite hipster to me!

[Janoschi]

Hugo, Pearl, Mabel, Hester, Benedict?

[rachel1970]

Agatha, Mabel, Quentin, Stanley all have a similar retro feel IMO.

[SheCutOffTheirTails]

Matilda, Florence, Esme, Leo are popular, trendy names.

Hipster names are more like Jean.

[KenDoddsDadsDog]

Martha , Sadie, Jude

[seeker]

Don't know what 'hipster' means!

[SheCutOffTheirTails]

No self-regarding hipster is going to give their child a name as common as Finn has been for the last number of years :o

They're more likely to choose Trevor.

[Haberdashery]

I think that list would have been extremely hip about ten years ago. I think it's just popular now, though.

[shadylane]

Ramona

[tammytoby]

I don't get the 'hipster' meaning either, I'm afraid. Most of the OP's suggestions are simply popular, trendy names, especially Finn, Oscar, Matilda and Florence, there is nothing 'hip' about them imo .

I do love some of the other suggestions though - Mabel, Hester, Quentin and Hugo are quite 'cool' imo.

[Fixture]

What's a hipster?

[Arfurnoozingbrain]

Iago,
Blue, (especially as a middle name)
Woodstock
Hep Cat,
Frizzel,
Axiom,
Malta,
Andromeda,
Looby,
Dyson,
Viking,
Cromarty,
Dogger
Fisher
Biscay

Now I have told you the hipster names, i must kill you all.

[UterusUterusGhali]

PMSL at the last 5, Arf.

[Arfurnoozingbrain]

I think the Shipping Forecast is a rich seam of inspiration for baby names.
I wish I was still fertile. Viking and Cromarty ROCK as hipster names, no?

[Arfurnoozingbrain]

uterus allow me to salute your fine use of punny-ness in your user name :)

[babybumblebeee]

Hipster and trendy are not that different you know! A name doesn't have to be unusual to be hipster [hhmm]

www.verbal-vomit.com/

If you google 'hipster names' you would see that they are often popular choices!

I really love Matilda/Matilde at the moment :)

[babybumblebeee]

And here are the 'Hipster names' of tomorrow nameberry.com/blog/hipper-than-hipster

[babybumblebeee]

Oh and some are you are listing 'try-hard' names, not hipster names :)

[charitygirl]

YY to 'Jean' - I love it in a poncey way, but sad old non-hip DH vetoed it.

[babybumblebeee]

I really like Jeanie actually

[SheCutOffTheirTails]

If something is trendy, it's not acceptable to hipsters.

Matilda is trendy.

That list is the trendy names of yesterday, not the hipster names of tomorrow.

[scarlettlips]

Betty, Joan, Pearl, Bert, Jimmy and Bob!

[thesurgeonsmate]

em, now that babybumble has told us about nameberry, do we need MN? A richer seam of naming goodness I have never seen.

[Arfurnoozingbrain]

babybumble, you are taking this terribly seriously, aren't you?

you mark my words. There will be a cluster of Cromartys when the so-hip-it-hurts brigade hit the Shipping Forecast.