Need Another boy name

[party-girl81.livejournal.com]

Hi i'm new here, my name is Crystal and my husband Ben and I are expecting our first in march. We have 2 girls names picked out but only one boy name and i'd like a backup boy name just in case we can't use the original one, i'll explain,

Boy name- Casper Rayne

Okay i'm mixed black and white and my husband is white and fairly pale skinned, as much as I LOVE the name Casper I think it would be incredibly wrong to name my son Casper if he was more on the light side but we can't seem to think of another boy name. We like names that are fairly unpopular and 5 other kids in the kidnergarten class aren't going to have.

Girl names-
Gabriel Sophia
Pearl Yvonne

"Gabriel" is pronounced just like the Archangel not "Gabrielle". Sophia Yvonne is my best friends name so obviously both middle names are given in her honor.( I think that after 20 years its the least I can do) These 2 names are final and won't be changed. We'll pick one or the other.

So if anyone has any "unpopular but cool" name ideas for a boy for us to add to the name we already have please let me know we could really use the help. Thanks!


P.S. Jasper Rayne isn't going to work because one of my friends is naming their baby that and we're due on the same day etc... it wouldn't be right lol.

Comments

[anapology.livejournal.com]

I really dont think Caspar would sound at all weird on a fair skinned baby! I think it's adorable...
Why Gabriel, not Gabrielle? i've always thought of Gabriel as a boys name, however i do like it a lot..
What about:
Jared
Caleb
Alistair (i love Ali for a boy)
Sebastian
Rory

[party-girl81.livejournal.com]

every one of those names are good but they're also all names of people i know :(

Gabriel was one of those names that just came to us, Casper Rayne was the same way and we loved them both from the get go.
I know too many people named Gabrielle and I just don't want it for my daughter. At first I thought it might be a little too boyish but then people name their boys or girls names like Taylor, Dakota, Ashley, Harley etc. So I figured why can't I name my daughter Gabriel?

Thanks for that list of names though I really appreciate it. :)

[knightanika.livejournal.com]

My mom's name is Yvonne and everyone misspells it, they spell it Evon if she's making reservations for restruants and stuff. I dont like my mom's name. she doesn't like her name either.

[krazyhippie.livejournal.com]

I've never seen Yvonne spelled any other way (certainly not Evon) so those people must not be so bright, lol. So I wouldn't base a kid's name on that.

[knightanika.livejournal.com]

Lol. well i think they spell it like that because of the E sounding. my mom never corrects them though.

[party-girl81.livejournal.com]

lol that makes me feel better about it being her middle name. She'll probably never use it except for legal documents or something like that and these days most of the time they only ask for the middle initial.

[pale-september.livejournal.com]

I love your icon. :)

[party-girl81.livejournal.com]

Thanks I like yours too :)

[krazyhippie.livejournal.com]

I don't like Gabriel for a girl, sounds too boy-ish, but it's a good name.

I think it'd be strange to have a kid named Caspar Rayne when my friend's kid is named Jasper Rayne, but maybe you're doing it on purpose? If so, then it's just a matter of opinion so mine doesn't matter, lol. I do like the name, regardless of the kid's skin tone.

I second the name Sebastian that somebody suggested. Unique but nice.

[party-girl81.livejournal.com]

we had our name picked out before i even met her and knew she was using Jasper.

[krazyhippie.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's awesome!

[party-girl81.livejournal.com]

it was really kinda crazy when she told me, we hadn't discussed baby names AT ALL, just one of those weird happenings I guess.

[stephwest.livejournal.com]

I really dislike the name Casper.

[party-girl81.livejournal.com]

I hope this doesn't sound rude but i'm glad you don't like it. If everybody liked it then it would be overly popular and I wouldn't be able to use it. :)

[missc1224.livejournal.com]

Too bad Casper won't work...such a cute name. Caleb has already been mentioned and I find that name adorable...some others I think are cute:
Alexavier
Andrew
Corey
Broderick
Colin

[party-girl81.livejournal.com]

Casper will only NOT work if the baby is very light skinned. I don't even want to think of the horrible Casper the friendly ghost jokes. I mean I expect some of them anyway, most kids get made fun of for one thing or another but to have a really light skinned kid named Casper is totally asking for it in my opinion. I don't want my son to hate me lol.

[solyma.livejournal.com]

i'm not an expert on babies and pigmentation, but i have known a few biracial couples who have had babies and initially the baby can seem a lot "whiter", but after a week their skin turns a bit "darker". i'm just mentioning this, because it may be hard to tell when the baby is born how his skin color is going to be. i really don't think it would be a problem if he had light skin and was named capser, but i think it's great how concerned you are about it... it's too bad more parents don't put as much concern in their kids' names. ;)

[solyma.livejournal.com]

haha oops... i obviously meant casper and not capser!

[akgothbitch.livejournal.com]

i think the name is cute, but i wouldn't use it.
not saying u shouldn't but at the same time u may want to think that since your baby will be mixed he/she may be dark as an infant but let lighter once older.just something to think about.

[party-girl81.livejournal.com]

maybe i'm the slow kid but don't you mean that the other way around? As a mixed person i've never gotten lighter and i've never met anyone who has gotten lighter later....*looks confused*

[party-girl81.livejournal.com]

ewww i just got chills thinking about Michael Jackson and his color change! My baby better not get lighter!!!

[bstrong.livejournal.com]

lol yeah, i've seen pics of my husband's (and well, mine too i guess) neice, she's 1/4 filipino (my husband's 1/2) and she was pretty light when she was born and then got a lot darker as she got older. i'm not a huge fan of casper but i think that's what you're after :) and i almost spit out my oatmeal at your comment above :)

[akgothbitch.livejournal.com]

it does go the other way but i knew someone before that there baby got lighter after a few weeks.
i too am mixed, very mixed and my skin actually has more of a tan to it now that im older then when i was a small kid.

[missc1224.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with you. I am very pale myself and kids used to call me Casper in 9th grade :P And if that were my actual name, boy... that would be rough :/

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i'm not too fond of yvonne, but i like pearl. i think sophia pearl would sound really nice, but sophia/sophie is getting very popular.
i don't think naming a boy casper would be bad. by the time he's five years old and in grade school, kids will be too young to know about or remember casper.
here are some names that are kind of close to casper or just boy's names that aren't that popular.
carter
casey
castor
cole
colin
corbin
corey
crispin
kyle
parker
spencer

[bleed-insanity.livejournal.com]

i love the names corbin and parker, those were both names i concidered when picking my sons name

[colin-chaotic.livejournal.com]

We like names that are fairly unpopular and 5 other kids in the kidnergarten class aren't going to have.

Something you may want to consider: Nearly everybody out there right now thinks the same thing, so they're avoiding giving their children traditional (and in many cases, real) names. Which just means that kindergarten classes of the future are just going to be filled with yoonik names, and you just know someone's going to end up as the fifth Sunshyn3 Leeryk in their class.

Anyway, on to your actual names! I think Casper Rayne would work brilliantly, whatever the coloring of the baby. I mean, if the baby is dark, children could still easily mock him for that couple with the name Casper. But children are going to find SOMETHING to mock about each other, and a name seems less damaging than attacks based on mental or physical qualities.

I also like Gabriel Sophia and Pearl Yvonne, although the boy's name might not be kind to a little girl, especially if she has a short haircut (all three years of middle school, I got asked if I was a boy or girl because my name was Lee and I had a short haircut).

[party-girl81.livejournal.com]

i'll remember not to cut her hair too short lol. I went through the same thing in the 7th grade with a very short cut and even though I don't have a boy name I certainly looked like one and it got even worse when it grew out a little and had uncontrollable frizz and I brought the 70's back with a fro. Having mixed hair was always a challenge for my mom, she never knew what worked best to keep the frizz down so I had some pretty whacked hair going on a lot of the time lol. I have a feeling my kids will end up the same way but if i'm lucky they won't :)

[so-there.livejournal.com]

just because a baby is born pale doesn't mean he will stay pale! lots of 'colored' babies darken as they age...

anyway, how about Linus? it's my son's name. unpopular, but (in my opinion) very cool!