The coolest name
Names are kinda on my mind these days, since we’ve been brainstorming baby names for our new son (Feel free to leave suggestions in the comments…we need more name fodder. Our eldest son is named Truman, just so you know we’re not looking for the standard boy names).
Anyway, I really love the name Adaptive Path. Not for a kid, mind you, just as a business name that sticks in your head (sidenote: just looked up ‘adaptive’ on babynames.com: no results; looked up ‘path’: Wayland, Wolfgang, Woodrow, Wyndham…hmmm). Well, my head anyway. I really don’t understand what Adaptive Path does, but that doesn’t matter. It’s a cool name. Sounds totally postmodern. Adaptive Path…the path that goes where you want to go. I’m not much of a postmodernist kinda guy, but I do enjoy dropping ‘postmodern’ into casual conversation just to see what happens.
Okay, well, I guess that’s enough free-association for one night…
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11 opinions for The coolest name
Griff
Feb 23, 2005 at 4:31 am
I have one on the way as well and if it’s a boy, I will name it Conner. According to one site, this is an Irish name meaning “Wolf Lover”. Since my wife is mostly Irish, we wanted an Irish name. Also, the meaning seems appropriate given that we have a Shiloh Shepherd (basically a giant long-haired German Shepherd) that is often said to look like a wolf.
My real comment is to ask if you have checked out
http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/
It is a pretty neat Java app that lets you see the frequency of a name over time. For instance, the name Truman peaked in 1910 at about 130 babies per million, ranking it 371.
Kat
Feb 23, 2005 at 6:40 am
How about Tristan? Truman and Tristan . . .
Bren
Feb 23, 2005 at 6:48 am
Thanks, Griff, I have seen the NameVoyager thingy–pretty cool. I keep going back just to play with it!
And thanks for ‘Tristan’, Kat. That’s a new one for me…
Lance Wicks
Feb 23, 2005 at 7:09 am
Tane (pronounced “Tain” often but prperly “Ta-nay”)
This is a New Zealand Maori Name from the legend of creation: http://www.maori.org.nz/korero/?d=page&pid=sp37&parent=36
Also a whopping great tree in New Zealand by the same name: http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=Tanemahuta
It is used as a name quite a bit and for “europeans” is pretty close to “Tony”. It also translates to “Male”, so good for a son.
Bren
Feb 23, 2005 at 7:59 am
Mmmm….I like Tane, thanks Lance!
Robert
Feb 23, 2005 at 8:08 am
Shouldn’t Eisenhower come after Truman? :)
My wife and I are expecting a boy in the next week or two, and we’re using my middle name… since my first name is my dad’s middle name, and I made a smart remark about doing that years ago.
Turns out my wife likes “Preston” as a name…
Dave
Feb 23, 2005 at 8:39 am
I agree with you ‘Adaptive Path’ is a great name for a company. It reminds me of how mental patients walk through the woods…. They take the psycho path.
Ba dum bum. Appropos of nothing, just thought I would share.
Kyle Maxwell
Feb 23, 2005 at 1:51 pm
“Truman” is good; I like names that were popular in the early 20th century (our daughter is named “Lily”). But if we have a son later, we’ve decided on “Kevin Robert” (keep my and my dad’s middle name and my initials), though I also like “James Franklin” (my great-grandfather). Girls’ names are a little harder, at least for us. I personally like “Grace”.
Eli
Feb 23, 2005 at 2:33 pm
The names that my wife and I came up with were Asa, Isaac and Ezra. We ended up with a Hannah. Good luck to you!
Lance Wicks
Feb 24, 2005 at 1:26 am
The most popular name for my daughter at one stage was “Lily”. A name we didn’t remember adding to the list. We suddenly realised that The post-it that had been home of the list had been transcribed by my wifes sister.
Revisiting the post-it we realised it was from the drug company Lily and the sister had simply copied the company name along with the real list!
We still like Lily as a name but could not burden our daughter with that story about where her name came from! :)
Paughnee
Feb 24, 2005 at 8:53 am
How ’bout creating your own name? My husband and I combined the names of our sisters (Deanna and Erin) and created an original (we think) name for our first daughter: D’Erin (pronounced like the boy’s name, Darren). The name has uniqueness plus significance, but has a familiar pronounciation.
I’ve always been interested in names (I guess because mine is weird). I can’t wait to hear what you come up with.