Type-inspired baby names?

Posted by Jennifer in

General Discussions

29 May 2008 — 1:42pm

Here's a semi-serious idea that actually could happen, depending ..

Two of my oldest friends are 5ish weeks away from having their first baby, and they're nowhere near a sense of what to name the lil pup. They're both designery and bookish, and quite like type. In fact, she's sitting across from me and just exclaimed "Pica! We'll name it Pica! Or .. Franklin!"

So, if you had to choose a type-inspired name for a baby, boy or girl, what would it be?

All the reasonable guidelines apply, for example nothing unpronounceable or humiliating. Like, not 'Slug'. :)

thanks!

Rosi H
2 Jun 2008 — 8:45am

For a girl - how about
Lucida or Maiandra

For a boy - Viking or Monaco, Arno or Eyrie (very Hollywood sounding)

Gill sounds quite masculine too.... but Gill Sans could be a problem if the family was Mr and Mrs Balls.

Good game!

ilovecolors
2 Jun 2008 — 10:26am

For a boy:

Fertigo (he could have nicknames like Fer, Fertie)
Caslon
Basker (Caslon and Basker could be some two gangsters or so)
Benton (sort of Ben Ten..)

For a girl:
Meta (maybe Metanelle?)
Jannon ("hey Jan, wanna go to the prom with me?")
Tyfa (cool for 3d movie)

Si_Daniels
2 Jun 2008 — 11:02am

I'm really glad no one has started a thread on type inspired porn star names or font-related Star Wars names... ;-)

david h
2 Jun 2008 — 11:29am

> a thread on type inspired porn star names
or something like...... :^)

Commercial Strip
Van Di[j]ck.
ITC Eros

Jennifer
2 Jun 2008 — 11:55am

Actually Ruben, that's a good idea .. so at the risk of shining a brighter light on them, the baby's last name will be 'Odwak', so what would you pair with it?

satya
2 Jun 2008 — 3:31pm

VOLT would be a nice name if your baby comes with some open type features. ;-).

rubenDmarkes
2 Jun 2008 — 4:05pm

Geez. Odwak? :P

Well, I really liked “Quaint”, actually. So if they're not afraid of having an eccentric kid (not only that, I guess they'd have to be really confident), Quaint Odwak actually sounds really good to me. I like eccentric. And it also seems to make sense! A quaint is something “attractively unusual” (according to askoxford.com) – appart from the typographic meaning, of course –, and then you've got “odd” and “wack” or “whack”… I think it's a cool name to have! Although it probably wouldn't fit a girl very well.
And it has unusual letters, too… a name with a Q, a W and a K? That's sweet! But of course, this kid's going to have to live with that name, I don't know how that would be… :P

I'm also a big Seinfeld fan, and the George character wanted to name his kid Seven. Seven Odwak doesn't sound that bad to me. Nice for a girl! :P

How about Bell(e) Odwak? Trinité Odwak? Tilde is like Tilda Swinton, the actress, so it's less “different” if they're not into something too weird… I like Zuzana, too. I think Odwak isn't hard to pair with other names.

Guess we could go on forever… how about getting them here and we'll all brainstorm together?! :P I think we'd all love to help choose a typographic name for a kid! :D

(Long S. Odwak? Nah, that'd just be cruel… :D)

rubenDmarkes
2 Jun 2008 — 4:17pm

Eureka
Absara
Morgan
Stella
Rongel
Merlo
Renard
Fedra
Charlotte

Sorry. I'll stop, now. :P

bobfet1
2 Jun 2008 — 5:40pm

I agree with ilovecolors, Meta would be a pretty sweet name.

BeeBrains
3 Jun 2008 — 12:06am

Trajan would be a cool boy's name. What about Ampersand? :D I'd like to see a bully come up with a good name-rhyme tease for that! Maybe if you went ala Prince and spelled it ‘&'.

dtw
3 Jun 2008 — 6:02am