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Building a Boy: Names from Architecture

March 3, 2008 By appellationmountain Leave a Comment

Most categories of unusual names seem better suited to boys than girls – nature names and muscial terms, for example.

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Comments

  1. Panya says

    November 19, 2009 at 8:11 AM

    I went to school with a guy called Gabe. Everyone thought Gabe was short for Gabriel, but it wasn’t until he started dating a girl in my grade that we found out his name was really Gable. His mom was a fan of Clark.

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  2. appellationmountain says

    November 15, 2009 at 6:52 PM

    Dan Gable, huh? That’s a new one for me, but I agree – a very cool name!

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  3. Pam says

    November 15, 2009 at 3:15 AM

    The only Gable I know was named for famed Iowa/Olympic wrestling Coach Dan Gable.
    Still a cool name

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  4. appellationmountain says

    June 24, 2008 at 10:20 PM

    It’s a nice point, S., especially with Miss Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt out there. Aldo makes me think of shoes, and I prefer Ignatius to the (related) Inigo, but these are all valid alternatives – especially in the middle spot, a great place for a hero name!

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  5. S. says

    June 24, 2008 at 3:44 AM

    This post is really old but…

    Why not names of architects instead of objects? Some interesting ones:

    Inigo
    Rem
    Tadao
    Aalvar
    Cesar
    Aldo
    Jorn
    Gustav
    Marcel

    Zaha

    I also “Rennie” like Charles Rennie MacKintosh….

    You could go crazy with surnames too if you wanted.

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  6. Allison says

    March 29, 2008 at 11:03 PM

    Isn’t the British guy on The Apprentice named Piers? I like it.

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  7. Emily says

    March 8, 2008 at 7:38 PM

    I’ve thought before that Rafter sounds like it could be a boys’ name. I don’t think it works as well as Archer and Gable, but it would work better than Dormer. I think Raf could be quite an appealing nickname.

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  8. coolteamblt says

    March 5, 2008 at 8:09 PM

    You know, I’ve always like Archer better than Archibald. It feels both modern and traditional, somehow. Gable is so cute! I like it a lot, actually. It’s a much cooler sounding name to me than Clark.

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