Names like Vita, but for a boy.

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I love the name Vita for a girl. Someone on a recent thread described it as

Has that ''glamorous and slightly scandalous doyenne of 1920s intellectual society set' vibe for me.

Which is a fantastic description.

But I’m having a boy - so help me find an equally fabulous name for him.

Vic short for victor or vikram

I always thought Yule Brennar was an unusual name

Orson
Clark

I Googled old movie star name 🙈

Erol

Rhett

Vito

Vivian

Just sharing for the Vita 20's reference
Fascinating woman her birth certificate has her name as Victoria

I also love Vita but I think I mainly love it because it’s unusual but sounds familiar - not sure if that makes sense. Boys names that I’ve heard and liked:

Orrin
Luca
Niall
Atlas
Archer
Hudson
Nathanial
Xander
Zachary
Wylder

Vitali surely?

Nico
Cosmo
Raif
Walter

I love Vita, whether on it's own or as a nn for Victoria. If you go on ONS they have a downloadable list of the top 100 names for each decade since 1904 - some of ones from the 1910's-30's that are like Vita in style imo might be Victor, Edgar (Ned?), Hugh, Raymond (Ray?), Ivor (Ivo?), Leonard, Alfred, Wilfred (Wilf?), Ernest, Laurence (Laurie?), Christopher (Kit?), Bertram (Bram?)....

Vita being synonymous with Vita Sackville-West of course - she was actually Victoria, called Vita for short.

I'm not sure many men's names are automatically considered the same way as men haven't challenged or broken down social barriers in the way women like Vita S-W and Virginia Woolf did. Many of the quite iconic 20's blokes had quite normal first names!

But maybe these names might work, not just from the 20s:
Byron
Auberon
Branwell (as in Brontë)
Dorian (as in Dorian Gray)
Lytton (as in Strachey)
Quentin (as in Bell)
Sebastian (as in Flyte, from Brideshead Revisited, very 20s).
Jay as in Jay Gatsby.

Rex
Vincent
Cyrus
Giles
Leander
Otto
Ambrose
Alistair
Lucian
Evander
Dashiell
Ivor
Ansel
Alaric
Blaise
Silas

Names with that 20s vibe:
Cosmo
Lazlo
Jay (as in Gatsby)
Aubrey
Rafe
Oscar

Aldous (Huxley)

Associated with the ‘Bloomsbury Set’

Surely it would be Vito . The masculine form of Vita and my grandson’s second name after his grandad .

Aubrey
Aldous
Sebastian
Victor
Hereward
Aeneas
Duncan
Alaric
Cecil
Byron
Clement
Maurice
Guy
Valentine
Claud
Cyril
Kenneth
Peregrine
Warwick
Leonard
Ronald
Hamish
Anthony
Terence
Gilbert
Christopher
Nelson
Philip
Serge
Julian
Ivor
Basil
Siegfried
Denis
Alix
Lytton
Julian
Ernest
Robin
Hugh
Rex

Jasper

Vito - short for Vitorio. I’m half Italian and know a few. It’s maybe a bit of an old man’s name but they are coming back in fashion!

Hugo
Felix
Atticus

Heath
Fabian

Lucian
Lysander
Piers

Rufus

I work with Vito. He's ace!

Viggo/Vigo

Agree with Jay (as in Gatsby)

Or Sebastian (as in Flyte) or even Aloysius (as in his teddy)