Talon (claw of bird of prey)
Kyle = narrows, channel, or straight.
The quintessential hippie name: Rainbow!
someone has to say it wrote:
You are considering naming your kid "stone" or "river"? That's the gayest hippy shit I've ever heard, not to mention stupid as hell. Name the kid John, and maybe he won't hate you when the kids at school start giving him wedgies in the 7th grade. And how is "Sage" masculine? You might as well name the kid "tinker bell", drop him off in the ghetto with some cyanide pills shaped like M&Ms for good measure. Jesus, please tell me, what is the world coming to?
I totally agree, but you didn't consider the toilet jokes.
Rock
I remember there being a brother tandem playing for the Saskatchewan Roughriders whose names were Rock and Roelle Preston respectively.
Willow, Woody (Woody Hayes, famous OSU football coach).
So, you want to make an environmental statement using your children's names as the instrument. Marvelous. May I suggest your read Flaubert's assessment of such in the character of Homais in Madame Bovary?
cookie monster wrote:
I have a girl, named Rose. We have a boy coming soon. We want to keep with a natural theme, plants, animals, climate, geological, celestial, etc. But it needs to sound masculine, and most of the nature names seem to sound feminine.
Some ideas I have so far: Stone, Cliff, Ridge, Flint, Sage, Tiger, Forest, & River. What else?
if it's a girl name your baby...
clitoris...
Why not "Hideous Gomphidius"?
What's the rational to name your child "Ocean"? Well, when you think about that person, you will think of that object. This can play a role in increasing awareness.
If people thought of oceans more frequently, maybe they would be less likely to toss toxic material down the drain.
I don't see how any harm can come from this. A piece of the natural world is in danger, and you are contributing a small part in the preservation of it.
Name your kid after me.
mycologist wrote:
Why not "Hideous Gomphidius"?
Is that name related to Foreskinious? Greek baby names?
Montesquieu wrote:
So, you want to make an environmental statement using your children's names as the instrument. Marvelous. May I suggest your read Flaubert's assessment of such in the character of Homais in Madame Bovary?
A lot of nature names are not political. Some, like Ozone and Ocean, sound political. Others, like Echo and Ridge, don't seem to be.
The obvious choice to go along with Rose would be Radon.
You may be the first ever to name your baby that.
Ernest T. Bass wrote:
The obvious choice to go along with Rose would be Radon.
You may be the first ever to name your baby that.
...and maybe last. A truly unique name.
'Tis the most common nickname, as you no doubt merely forgot for a moment, for the mushroom Gomphidius oregonensis. That goes by a few other names, second paragraph:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/shroomin/Content?oid=23722
More mycological inspiration for subsequent spawn within this family, ninth paragraph:
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19971017&slug=2566555
there are some famous people with names along this line of thinking..
as someone mentioned a few earlier..
stone phillips
rivers cuomo
river phoenix
what if you did something a little more specific? like "nile"?
or you can look for chinese translations of names; their names frequently have a literal meaning, too.
hackeye wrote:
I wish my name were something unique, like Echo.
"Echo. Come back here right now."
Alacrity wrote:
Branch.
Thank me later.
Somewhat famous Branches:
Branch Rickey
Branch McCracken, Indiana University football coach many, many years ago. He developed an offensive formation called the Side Saddle Six.
If you have twins, name the other boy "Tree". As in Tree Rollins. Okay, "Tree" was his nickname, but cool none the less.
If you think he is going to be skinny, name him Stem.
Fat? Name him Trunk.
