If this boy is going to be in an English-speaking country, then I'll be honest -- I don't like any of them. Even though "Wedge" does hold a special place for me because of Star Wars. "Kit," however, reminds me of "Knight Rider," not a good association.
But hey, it's not my boy, it's yours. Just keep in mind the kid will have to live among others, and a name can be a real pain in the neck sometimes. My dad thought so, since his very mormon parents named him "Sharon" (after the region in the 'promised land'). He hated it, and went by "Pete" his whole life :)
Brothers name was Moroni, Dad's name Alma. Yeah, they pretty much hated their names. Son named his four boys Jalen, Jorryn, Jevan, Josten. Even though Son resigned from the cult wife usually dresses the boys EXACTLY the same (Reminds me of the Plig culture). Parents who expect their kids to fit a mold often cause strife in their own lives as well as the lives of their children.
You said that you would love feedback. Oh, dear! What a difficult thing to respond to.
Honestly, you would be doing a child a favor by finding names that are a little less open to twisting. You can go for creative --- where I live, we have lots of made up names. It's okay in this small and hugely tolerant society. Where every kid has an unusual name, it's easy to make anything work.
But always try to think of how it would feel to be the one who has to go out in public with the name, every day of your life. Try to keep in mind that in WASPish average America, other kids (and a good number of adults) will tease the child mercilessly, for years and years, if he gets one of the names on that list.
Kit is probably the safest one. But even it will get a fair amount of 'Here, Kitty Kitty!" from every lunkhead on the block in most of America. Tiaan and Sheev (which I actually like, where I live either would work just fine) will get a lot of twisting and teasing in less eclectic communities.
Best thing to do is wait and see what your baby looks like. We always had a couple names to try out when the baby was born and one name would always "fit" better than the others. I feel it's important for a name to fit because I never felt like mine fit me, I don't have one that I think would, other than " mom". I still don't like my name and it's a pretty normal name, just doesn't fit.
I like this idea for input..my husband and I like, Seth Max James Hayes.. we have a few boys and our name for males gets tossed around quite a bit. Another boy here soon, but we can't agree on a name..
...those names sound very silly to me. And may be kind of a curse in later years....the poor kid might be teased and ridiculed. Just stick with Billy, Johnny, George, Fred, Bob, or something...
Does no one else find it even a bit unusual for a question like this as a first-ever post? OP has never posted here, at least under this particular screen name.
Considering the baby names being submitted for evaluation, I have a suspicion that we are being spoofed here.
Yes, I did and do suspect that it is not serious. However, I decided to answer it seriously just in case I was wrong. Plus, as I mentioned, I live in an area where the sorts of names on that list could just barely be taken seriously by someone who is only thinking about how cute this name or that name might be for a little tiny baby.
Sadly, I do know some people like that --- and so I answered with what I would like to say to those parents in the real world.
Mostly, I like the extreme flexibility with which babies get named where I live. But sometimes I feel sick inside when I hear what some poor kid is stuck with. And I would hate to say nothing and then hear that somebody just named an innocent baby something that is going to make the kid miserable every day in school.
I loved picking out names for my kids during pregnancies. I'd line up boys names and then girls names, and go through the list, trying on each name until one "fit."
Dang it. I hate admitting that I know these off the top of my head. Yeah, I see you, OP.
I saw someone named "Jedi" once and knew another family who named their kids after Star Trek and Harry Potter characters, so these names aren't even that wild.
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The funny thing is that I know Mormons who thought the name Henry was too "old fashioned" even though their favorite character from childhood was really named Henry, but went by Harry. They ended up naming their boy after a river in New York, Hudson.
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None. The poor kid will spend the rest of his life being asked how to spell his name-not to mention he will never be able to find a miniature license plate for his bedroom door.
Remember the Simpson episode where they are somewhere that the store was selling License plates with names and Bart was looking for his name and only noticed plates for "Bort". He asked why would anyone name someone "Bort" and just then two mothers were calling out the name "Bort" looking for their sons?
I have 3 grandsons, all 7 years old now ..born about 6 weeks apart. There was no planning involved from my 3 kids.
I wasn't crazy about any of the names chosen, but it's not my choice.
The middle one is named Cash. I thought it was so dumb and would just open him up to being teased.
I'm still not sure that it won't, but last year in first grade at a Salt Lake County elementary school, they found out there are 3 boys named Cash in his school. One was in his class, one wasn't and one was in 2nd grade.
I thought at the time, what are the odds for that to happen?
He's a smart, funny and loving kid. He still has an odd name.