Estelle wrote to me recently with a tall order:
I’m having quads (!!!) in 4 weeks and I need names! I’m having one boy and three girls. My 4 year old son’s name is Cosmo. My husband and I like spacey, whimsical and weird names.
In fact, they “don’t have any limits on how weird a name can be.”
One girl name they’re considering is Ione, which is a family name.
The combination of Cosmo and the adjective “spacey” made me think of star and constellation names right off the bat:
| Adhara Aldebaran Altair Aludra Antares Antlia Aquarius Aquila Aries Auriga Azha Carina Corvus | Cygnus Deneb Denebola Hamal Kastra Lacerta Libra Lyra Meissa Musca Nashira Norma Orion | Pavo Polaris Rana Rigel Shaula Sheratan Sirius Sirrah Suhail Taurus Thuban Vega Vela |
One nice thing about these is that several together probably wouldn’t scream “star names” to the average person. Unlike, say, a group of flower names. (Though I’m sure stargazers would catch on pretty quickly.)
And here’s what we have for non-galactic suggestions:
| Allegra Althea Apollonia Artemis Aurora Briony Calypso Clio Danae Demetria | Echo Eulalia Freya Hestia Imelda Imogen Isis Lucasta Luna Jonquil | Minerva Olympia Rhea Sapphira Severina Ursula Vita Xanthe Zelda Zenobia |
Those were the girl names, these are the boy names:
| Agni Aldous Barnaby Casper Cyril Elan Evander Erasmus Fabio Gideon | Horatio Ignatius Isidore Jethro Leander Loki Magnus Milo Nigel Odin | Pascal Peregrine Reuben Rémy Silas Taliesin Theron Tycho Ulysses Zenon |
What other whimsical names can you come up with for Estelle? And, can you put together any good combinations of 1 boy and 3 girl names?
Update: The babies have arrived! Scroll down to see what names Estelle selected.