A boys' name to rival Huckleberry

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A friend at work has a little boy called Huckleberry (known as Huck).

I LOVE it but obviously can't copy it, as it's SO unique.

Can anyone think of any 'similarly' out-there but cute/cool names for boys?? Ds2 is due in the summer and I am struggling with an awesome, strong, interesting, unique name for him.

Interested in names from nature, literature, don't mind surnames-as-forenames in some cases...just something that stands out a bit from the kings and saints...

I DONT like: the trend for old-man names, or boys' names that sound too soft/feminine (I would put things like Robin, Caspar into this camp).

Help! Any ideas! What's the most awesome boys name you've ever heard??

I agree that there are plenty of good names that happen to be in the Bible but the one the OP rejected was Zephaniah. That's not a name in widespread use and I would certainly assume if I met one that he came from a religious family or possibly a family that had chosen a name with no regard for its associations.

Nimrod.

OP said it "sounds biblical and we are atheists", so I assumed from that comment that any name that "sounds biblical" was out.

People find names that they like from lots of different sources these days, films, TV series, books, so I wouldn't assume the Bible was their inspiration. I might wonder if it was a name from way back in their family tree, or one of the blokes in Kings of Leon

The name Abigail was not originally slang for a servant. It was a name given to Hebrew women and meant something like 'father's joy'.

One (or perhaps two different) women named Abigail feature in Bible stories. In the best known, one Abigail calls herself a servant - but it's not what her name means. She does this on her first meeting with very powerful King David. It was a completely conventional gesture; men called themselves servants, as well, when meeting the king.
Later, among Puritans, who took the Bible very literally, Abigail did indeed become slang for a servant, and the slang name was popular for a long time. But it was a proper name long before that. In the same way, the name Jack was a proper name long before phrases such as 'Jack of all trades'.

However, Huckleberry originated as a fruit name and a nickname in 19th cent America. It's an American version of the English name for the same type of berry, which was 'hurtle' or 'whortle'. Then it was chosen by novelist Mark Twain when writing a book about race and slavery to be the name of his hero - who was 'small and unimportant' (one of the meanings of the nickname Huckleberry). So far as we know, no-one had used Huckleberry as a first name before. Because of that, and because of sensitivity of Twain's story, I think that it's almost impossible to ignore the origins of Huckleberry.

But, as always, parents have the right to name a child what they choose.

Jeremiah?

His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular?

Titus

Quincy.

I am amazed people call their children Huckleberry or Huck just because of what it rhymes with.

It reminds me of that bit in the Simpson's when Marge and Homer are thinking of names for their PFB.

"Larry?"
"Nooo. He'll get called Larry Fairy" (rhymes with US accent)
a few other v funny suggestions then . . .
"How about Bart?"
"Bart? Hmm let's see. Dart, Cart, Mart . . . no nothing rude rhymes with Bart. It's perfect!"

Trafalgar

Waterloo. I have met a Brazilian man called Waterloo so there's a precedent. Or Wellington, Welly for short?

marmaduke nn duke

Clement
Marmaduke
Malachi (nn Mal)
Gilbert (Gil)
Ernest

I can't believe this username wasn't taken.

I love Ellis & Hayden.

Also love Leon which has been mentioned.

Silas
Roman
Amos
Yannick
Cornelius
Lysander
Samson
Titan
Linus
Blaine
Lennox
Hendrix
Luther
Zade
Cormac
Mitchell
Drew

Oh and Bram or Bran or Bertram.

Or Gray / Grayson.

I love Huckleberry and Falcon, top of my list! I'd like to suggest Sacheverell.

Clement, as in Atlee.
Cornelius. I love this name. I think there is a mumsnetter who called are son this name and had a very unusual nn for it, can't remember for the life of me what it was though. Anyone else?
Another vote for Montgomery too.

*her son

Puck
Papageno
Geronimo
Aiolos
Menelaus
Eldridge
Eustace

Geromino (Ronnie) hate it myself but just thought I'd throw it out there

geronimo not mino - and just noticed brightnealy had already mentioned it.

On a more realistic note I'd go for Atticus, Ptomely, Caesar or Saul

LOLzies at Dingleberry Finn.

Odin, Loki, Knox, Atticus, Huxley, Broderick (Brody), Bohdi, Levi

Maximilian (Max)