You weren’t going to bother with a holiday wreath this year. But all the other front doors in your neighborhood have one, and now your door looks naked in contrast. So you begrudgingly decide to go to the store and buy a wreath.
While perusing your options, you strike up a conversation with a fellow wreath-shopper. At one point he mentions that he and his wife are expecting, and that they’re on the lookout for a baby name:
We’re having a boy in a few months. He has older brothers named Colton and Trevor, but for him we want something more unexpected, maybe more exotic.
“Do you have any suggestions?”
You’re a name-lover, and you could potentially give him dozens of suggestions. But you’d also like to get this wreath stuff over with already, so you only have time to give him five baby name suggestions before making your purchase and heading home.
But here’s the fun part: Instead of blurting out the first five names you come up with, you get to press a magical “pause” button, think for a bit, and then “unpause” the scenario to offer him the best five names you can think of.
Here are a few things to keep in mind as you brainstorm:
- Be independent. Decide on your five names before looking at anyone else’s five names.
- Be sincere. Would you honestly suggest these particular baby names out loud to a stranger in public?
- Five names only! All names beyond the first five in your comment will be either deleted or replaced with nonsense words.
Finally, here’s the request again:
We’re having a boy in a few months. He has older brothers named Colton and Trevor, but for him we want something more unexpected, maybe more exotic.
Which five baby names are you going to suggest?
Alaric
Bishop
Fyfe
Kai
Raphael
Declan
Leopold
Piers
Sean
Sebastian
Landry
Deacon
Amos
Milo
Beckett
Riordan
Harris
Gethin
Euan
Zeb
Conrad
Darwin
Watson
Vander
Kepler
(list ordered by increasing “unexpectedness”)
Esmond
Piran
Cashel
Alaric
Ossian
Hector
Otto
Ralston
Victor
Walton
Knox
Ramsey
Dashiell
Axel
Magnus
Hugh
Anders
Viggo
Gavin
Declan
Sterlin
Kilian
Rhett
Brentley
Eli
Oakley
Jensen
Baylor
Hendrix
Shiloh
Colton, Trevor, and Gale
Bodhi
Calder
Flint
Lawson
Sutter
Cassidy
Geraint
Horatio
Magnus
Lysander
Caleb
Cayden
Lake
Knox
Drake
Idris
Briac
Luken
Oberon
Finlo
Dermot
Rygiel
Kenelm
Halvor
Leofric
Ambrose
Blain
Mercer
Payson
Vance