Most categories of unusual names seem better suited to boys than girls – nature names and muscial terms, for example.
Where every name has a story
Most categories of unusual names seem better suited to boys than girls – nature names and muscial terms, for example.
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.
Dan Gable, huh? That’s a new one for me, but I agree – a very cool name!
The only Gable I know was named for famed Iowa/Olympic wrestling Coach Dan Gable.
Still a cool name
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!
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.
Isn’t the British guy on The Apprentice named Piers? I like it.
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.
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.