'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!

I'd just like to point out that my 20 year old is called Oscar. Nice to know I was so ahead of the times.

Finisterre would be really retro, as it no longer exists on the shipping forecast.

I take it you all know about Unhappy Hipsters...?

btw- I only just 'got' Jermaine Byte!

Since when has 'hipster' been synonymous with popular/common?

A 45-year old Tory has (fairly) recently called his DD Florence. Surely that name has now lost all 'hip' credentials.

The others, meh, common.

• Viking
  • North Utsire
  • South Utsire
  • Forties
  • Cromarty
  • Forth
  • Tyne
  • Dogger
  • Fisher
  • German Bight
  • Humber
  • Thames
  • Dover
  • Wight
  • Portland
  • Plymouth
  • Biscay
  • Trafalgar
  • FitzRoy
  • Sole
  • Lundy
  • Fastnet
  • Irish Sea
  • Shannon
  • Rockall
  • Malin
  • Hebrides
  • Bailey
  • Fair Isle
  • Faeroes
  • Southeast Iceland

Ok, so maybe 3 or 4 are a tad unuseable......
but I can so see a duffel-coated couple with killer media specs, shouting '' Malin, Cromarty, Sole (put on accent on the end...) do come quickly your babycinos are getting cold and Fitzroy has eaten all the pimento-stuffed olives''

Arlo

Flynn

Jago

Perry

Reuben

Nate

Verity

Xanthe

Lotta

Thalia

Nina

Arfur - it does seem that St. Bancroft's parents were hipsters. :o

I only know one Finn and one Matilda but 3 Sonnys and 4 Willows

Cromarty was the name of one of Portland Bill's sidekicks in the tv programme...

And his dog was called Dogger!

I know a boy called Wolfgang, a few cass/cassius, an Indiana, a few Agnes, an Echo, Vita, Vivi, Monty, Trueman, and a boy whos middle name is Wolverine, all from the same nursery/school, I know the COOLEST kids

Oooh melly, I'm loving Jago!

Am loving Biscay

How about the Isles of Scilly:

(St) Mary
(St) Agnes
(St) Martins
(St) Helens
Bryher
Tresco
Samson
Gugh
Annet
Tean
Nornour
Menavaur
Great Ganilly

not hipster names.obvious and standard mc names
boden mums and converse dads who buy abel and cole

Southeast Iceland? Now that would be some hip kid

Babble have a list of hipster names. here I have to say, I quite like Holden :) Followed, by the usual debate over what, precisely, constitutes a hipster name...!

Jude
Saul
Gabriel
Archie
Oscar
Felix
Theo

Susannah
Martha
Matilda
Beatrice
Saskia
Esme

Archie, Oscar, Esme, Matilda are definatly far too common to be 'hip' imo!

HoldTouchEngage, your names are very mainstream.

Real hipsters wouldn't be on mumsnet but would be squatting without leccy off the grid in some Dalston/ other as yet challenging inner city London region or some remote island in the outer Hebrides knitting conceptual art from miscellaneous items salvaged from skips or washed up on banks of local shore/ river bank.

Actually the super hip wouldn't ask the mumsnet masses what names THEY consider 'hip'. They're confident enough in their choices without our help .

Thank you baby it's my son's middle name!! I have always loved it, it's cornish so links with my roots too which I like

most names posted on thread are standard mc
nice enough but solid middle class,like angst about schools and catchments
anyone hipster isnt hanging with da mn crew to get heads up on names...

Violet, Ruby (in fact any name that could be a colour), Alfie, Ruben, Evie, Harley, Ashton, Billy, Joel, (Ooh, see what I did there? Billy Joel! Scrap those two - you're looking for hipster names!) Indiana, India, Jenson, Seth. Some of the names above are like comic strip superheroes. Think of the high expectations for a boy christened "Viking". What if he grows up in touch with his feminine side and develops a love of cross stitching?

Farrah is a fab name.

whoever mentioned Great Ganilly - I'd love to name one of my kids that.