A Boy Named Sue, Baby Names… Help?

a boy named sue by shel silverstein

Yes, it’s a bit extreme, but you do have to admire the prac­ti­cal approach to nam­ing in this Shel Silverstein-penned clas­sic. A name with a purpose.

We’ve been rack­ing our brains to come up with the right name for the baby boy I’m due to deliver in the next month. The kids came through with some strong prospects, as expected. Jonah (7) and Mur­phy (5) sug­gested Bear Fight, Bear Claw, etc. Char­lotte (2) voted for Jonah Col­orado, which I’m guess­ing is some type of homage to her brother and clos­est ally. Isabella (10) came through with sev­eral pos­si­bil­i­ties as well, but we still seem to be stuck.

So this is an open request to all of those with names to share. What was your approach?

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  1. I have a 3 yr old named Hugo, fits him per­fectly. I also had twin girls 2 months ago and named them Marlo Amalia and Sabine Luve­nia. Every­one thinks Marlo is a boy! I don’t mind. Gotta go with what you like.
    I also like:
    Angus
    Beau
    Sebas­t­ian
    I like to look through our fam­i­lies geneal­ogy records for ideas.
    Good luck!

    alissaanne — 01/12/10 @ 10:56 pm —

  2. We didn’t pick a spe­cific name before­hand, we just nar­rowed it down to a short list (which we then for­got to bring to the hos­pi­tal). Post-delivery, we sit­ting around look­ing at our new bun­dle of joy and won­der­ing what to call her, so my hus­band got out the lap­top, which had our orig­i­nal list of 60+ names on it. He took one look at the huge list and said “Hey, how about ‘Piper’?” It was a name that he had dis­liked orig­i­nally and I snuck it back onto the bot­tom of the list. But it was per­fect for her, and still is. Some­times, you just know, right?

    I like Jude, Gra­ham, Harper, and Ryhs for boys. Can you tell I’ve been watch­ing a lot of British TV shows, lol?

    Steph — 01/13/10 @ 11:07 am —

  3. lol, when we had our 2 year old, we asked our kids and got Cin­derella, Num­ber 5, Jake Blaze (they knew it was a girl) and I think the other one was New Zealand (where we’re from)
    Some names I like for boys are: Noah, (lol — although you have a Jonah … so that might be good or weird), Jack, Racen (pro­nounced Ray-sin). I have a thou­sand girls names, but can’t quite think of any boy ones right now!!
    If I remem­ber, I’ll com­ment again :D

    joe20tolife — 01/13/10 @ 2:07 pm —

  4. Con­grat­u­la­tions — I had no idea! I think names are so per­sonal, my two boys are called Dylan Samuel and Miles Har­ri­son — both very British (although Miles is a bit of a mouth­ful for the French — he was named Mil-less when he was born!)

    deb — 01/13/10 @ 6:07 pm —

  5. Oh dear, we are hav­ing the exact same prob­lem. Poten­tially this could be baby #3 com­ing into our lives in a cou­ple of months and we can­not think of a name!
    The names of our boys are Kaed Rhys and Brayer Quinn, if that helps!

    Hilda — 01/14/10 @ 10:11 am —

  6. Hi, I just found your blog, it is lovely. We have three chil­dren and the first two are sons. Our old­est name is Parker and then we have Holden. Parker was named after one of my stu­dents when I was teach­ing. Holden’s name came from the book Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. But if our third had been a boy, we had Har­ri­son, Ander­son, Liam, and Lau­rent on our list. Our third was a girl and her name is Lau­ren. Best of luck, it is so hard find­ing that per­fect name!

    Angie — 01/15/10 @ 8:28 am —

  7. I like Dane, Ian, Chris­t­ian, Con­ner, Liam, Linus (I know weird, but I think it is cute), Bryan, Ryder, Bridger. You will have to let us know what you decide on, and con­grats on the new lit­tle one when he arrives!

    tkcuddlers — 01/21/10 @ 11:36 pm —

  8. I like Dane, Ian, Chris­t­ian, Con­ner, Liam, Linus (I know weird, but I think it is cute), Bryan, Ryder, Bridger. You will have to let us know what you decide on, and con­grats on the new lit­tle one when he arrives!

    tkcuddlers — 01/22/10 @ 4:36 am —

  9. I’m a fan of Auden (from the poet WH Auden) or Rockne. I am a fan of weird names like those. Specif­i­cally last names of peo­ple I admire or street names. Inspi­ra­tion comes from every­where. Con­grats and good luck with the name picking.

    Amma — 02/9/10 @ 5:00 am —

  10. ohhhh thank you! I am still up in the air! I am due any day! uggggh!

    handmade charlotte — 02/9/10 @ 5:15 am —

  11. Thank you so much, I really enjoyed read­ing all of the won­der­ful comments!

    We picked the name River and thought we had it set­tled for a few days, but yes­ter­day we switched to Noah. We passed that name over a while back, but for some rea­son it clicked all of a sud­den and just feels right.

    We were fran­tic a cou­ple of nights ago when we rushed to the hos­pi­tal for a false alarm (you would think we’d have it fig­ured out by now but, alas).

    I passed the due date today…

    handmade charlotte — 02/16/10 @ 9:06 am —

  12. Have a friend whose sister-in-law named their baby girl Bent­ley but think it fits for a boy as well.

    Janet — 03/23/10 @ 5:34 pm —

  13. I like Thor.

    Eva — 03/24/10 @ 11:34 pm —

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    genealogy — 04/30/10 @ 7:37 am —

  15. i think there are more good idea!

    genealogy — 05/3/10 @ 9:20 am —



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