'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!

[CaptainNancy]

Thurston is a very old, and very lovely name!

Alder?

[thesurgeonsmate]

OMG CaptainNancy with your hipster insights you are really spoiling us! Peveril? Get me a baby to name RIGHT NOW. But if nameberry isn't cutting it, we DO need MN. I mean, I don't even know if a hipster is a good thing to be, but I sure as hell want a baby called Peveril.

[CaptainNancy]

[tummytickler]

I am not sure you can get a 'hipster' name, can you. Surely just using the word 'hipster' means you are not 'hip'. I am fairly sure non of the lovely young teenagers I know would use the word hip!
Dd's name has been mentioned twice, as has a few of our list names for dc5. I am not hip. I drink tea, go to church, read Wodehouse and don't know how to use an ipod properly.

[Rhubarbgarden]

Atticus
Gene
Dave

[tummytickler]

Dave dh wanted to call ds Dave. I had to put my foot down!

[SheCutOffTheirTails]

tummy - you sound like a hipster to me.

"Don't know" how to use a iPod? Dead giveaway :o

[shadylane]

um I met some twins called David and Davida. Pretty hip.

[ScarlettIsWalking]

Lana

Jean

Sebold

Cymbeline

Rita

Cynthia

[Psammead]

Cedric
Clive
Daphne
Diane

Roar @ Jermaine Byte

[DorisIsTheDarkDestroyer]

Gus
Ernie
Eric
Bessie

[mopsyflopsy]

Am loving some names on here - Cedric, Mabel, Ramona, Quentin, even Thurston is cool.

[Janoschi]

//www.babynamespedia.com was a good one when I was searching.

[Greythorne]

I agree with others saying that Matilda, Florence, Esme, Felix, Leo, Finn, Oscar etc are actually very popular now.

I know at least one or two of each of primary age or younger, which suggests they are curent names.

OP - maybe that's OK with you. You have put "hipster" but maybe you just mean not top of the 100 most popular list but nothing totally way out. These names all strike me as popular, lovely names.

To my mind, really hip people (rock stars, serious actors, not slebs, arty intellectual types) name their children very unusual things like:

Whitman (as in Walt)
Elvis
Earl
Rocky
Heathcliff
Wilbur
Edgar
Aramis

not Felix and Leo!

[DooinMeCleanin]

Noooooo, dd2's name is on that linked to list

[rockboobs]

if you're cool, whatever you call your baby will be cool.

so speaketh Rockboobs.

the obverse is also true.

[mathanxiety]

Malin, Rockall, Fisher, Finisterre (nn Finn), Viking -- ooooh yesssss Arfunnoozingbrain.

Dogger, Humber, German Bight... if you can't find inspiration there, there's something wrong with you.


Ray
Leopold
Orson
Frank
Dashiell
Otis
Lennon
Wyatt
agree with Elvis

Piper
Leonora
Dixie
Poppy
Hazel
Mamie
Frances

[Bearcrumble]

Hipster children I have met:

Orson
Atom
Echo

[Dexifehatz]

Dexter and Felicity.

[SheCutOffTheirTails]

And hatstand, Dexi?

[AngieWatts]

In my neck of the woods (ultra hipster north London area) Oscar and Finn would not be trendy enough

Real hipster kids I know:

Atticus
Benoit
Zion
Hector
Ramone
Hopper
Silas

Delphi
Lois
Bijou
Jeanie
Wren
Aida

[tammytoby]

Yeah, REAL hipsters round here are

Orson
Quentin
Heath
Cyril

Skye
Maude
Gertie
Davina

[PipFEH]

Never heard the term hipster before but can guess what it means. Can't help thinking that if you're trying to be hip you are anything but hip - the attitude of 'I am a hipster therefore my child must have a name like -insert random name-' seems very prescribed to me! Why can't people just choose what they like instead of trying to subscribe to some sort of 'cool' group. And agree with whoever said that if you are cool, the name you choose will be cool.

[Dexifehatz]

Shecut- no- Hattie!!

[Dexifehatz]

Brilliant to see Thurston come up here.Husband is a massive Sonic Youth fan and we always said that we would have Thurston if our first born was a boy.She wasn't and is Hattie.