A reader named Tamela wrote to me yesterday. She has one son named Hudson and is expecting her second son in a couple of months. She’d like some name suggestions for baby boy #2.
Hudson comes from a surname, so the first place I’d look is other surnames. Here are a few ideas:
Archer
Baxter
Bennett
Blake
Carlisle
Carter
Everett
Fletcher
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Marlow
Mitchell
Maxwell
Norris
Parker
Ramsey
Reeve
Ridley
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Roscoe
Sawyer
Spencer
Tate
Tanner
Thatcher
Travis
Westley
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(At first I was only going to omit names ending with -son. Then I decided to cut all names with n-endings, just to get a good range of sounds in there.)
Do you like any of the above with Hudson? What other names would you suggest to Tamela?
Update: Tamela has to get some adoption paperwork squared away, so she needs to select a name within the next few days.
Here are a few more facts:
- The baby’s surname will be a Spanish name that starts with an S. Think Silva, or Santos. (Neither of these is the actual surname.)
- Because the baby is coming from Russia, Tamela would really like something that’s “at least a little Russian.”
- Current favorites include Maxwell, Luis (nn Louie) and George (which is the name of Tamela’s father). Tamela also mentioned Matteo in this comment.
I really like both George and Maxwell with Hudson. I think either one would sound great as a first name.
Matteo doesn’t strike me as being a great match to Hudson, in terms of style. (Fits perfectly with the surname, though.)
I’m undecided on Luis. I don’t think it’s a bad match, but I don’t think it would fit as well with Hudson as Maxwell or George would.
As for Russian names, let’s see…Maksim or Maksimilian are both similar to Maxwell. Yuri is a version of George. (Also a cosmonaut!)
Or, perhaps one of these would work as a middle name with, say, George or Maxwell:
Aleksandr
Benedikt
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Eduard
Filipp
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Isaak
Luka
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Nikolai
Viktor
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(I picked these because they’re very familiar-looking — almost like they’re just English names with a Russian twist.)
What other thoughts/ideas do you have for Tamela?
Thank You to Nameberry
Thank you very much to Pamela of Nameberry for posting SIBLING NAMES: Don’t Commit Before You Read This! to the Nameberry Blog just a few days ago.
(It comes from this post, written late last year.)