[Help] Baby Names?

[Xenophon]

My stepson is having a baby. (Actually, his wife is.) What're some good magick-derived baby names? I imagine I'll be tasked with sourcing the kid a foreign name. (Most Chinese try to have an "English" name, but it can be from any foreign country.) Trismegistus is out. Remember what befell in Tristam Shandy. I think Hekate would be cool for a girl. Ditto for Heidh or Gulveig. ("Heidh is Gulveig called when visiting houses/Far-scrying seeress in sorcery skilled/ Casts she her spells and betwitches she men's minds/ Wicked delight to worst women, she...") Boys? I could suggest "Egregore," but it's a bit wanting. I like Agrippa, but it smacks of Harry Potter. Aureolus (as in Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim) sounds great, but his mom would probably think I'm perving on her. Hroptatyr, maybe? Gungnir?

Fire away...

 

[silencewaits]

1. Some planetary name, or a day of the week with that name. (Saturday.)
2. The name of a star - maybe not Algol, or maybe Algol. Also constellations.
3. Cicero.

(I'm not good with baby names. )

 

[SkullTraill]

Hermes.

Timeless, luxury, not obvious/obnoxiously occult.

Eve, Lilith, any Greek/norse god name. Even Crowley or Cromwell.

All absolutely foul, but still better than “Egregore” come the fuck on, I’ll have to come to china and mangle you myself if you ever name someone “Egregore”.

That’s like trying to pick a geographic name for a child and instead of picking “India”, “Milan”, etc you name them something like “City”.

 

[silencewaits]

Hermes.

I was thinking Hermes, but I didn't say it because I thought everyone would think Hermes - haha.

 

[Xenophon]

Hermes.

Timeless, luxury, not obvious/obnoxiously occult.

Eve, Lilith, any Greek/norse god name. Even Crowley or Cromwell.

All absolutely foul, but still better than “Egregore” come the fuck on, I’ll have to come to china and mangle you myself if you ever name someone “Egregore”.

That’s like trying to pick a geographic name for a child and instead of picking “India”, “Milan”, etc you name them something like “City”.

Yeah, but it SOUNDS like a slight twist on "Gregory/Grigori/Gregor." You know, like POC mamas will call the kid "JaMarcus" or some such.

Got it! Eureka! No, the name's not "Eureka." The name. The boy's name is "Eldritch"! Eldritch Lovecraft Liu. Sounds WASPy, classy, and occult all in one.

 

[Xenophon]

Yeah, but it SOUNDS like a slight twist on "Gregory/Grigori/Gregor." You know, like POC mamas will call the kid "JaMarcus" or some such.

Got it! Eureka! No, the name's not "Eureka." The name. The boy's name is "Eldritch"! Eldritch Lovecraft Liu. Sounds WASPy, classy, and occult all in one.

Wait again. "Eldritch Lovecraft Liu" is TOO good for any just-bewhelped brat. A name like that has gotta be the moniker of an occult private-eye, whose series of adventures I gotta start writing now. The baby? BFD. Call 'im "Sulak." The Babylonian demon who hung out in the loo. Babies allus take dumps at inconvenient times and places. Me, I got lowbrow literature to fictionate and to monetize.

 

[Yazata]

How about a rune name. Seems almost obvious for you?
Like Berkana for a girl, Keno for a boy, maybe Teiwaz for either one etc.

 

[Xenophon]

How about a rune name. Seems almost obvious for you?
Like Berkana for a girl, Keno for a boy, maybe Teiwaz for either one etc.

Zat's the problem: it's expected. I was looking for something seriously arcane or off-beat. Short of Pazuzu, mind you. Osiris-Aiwass might work, but that's a lot of sibilants. Still, this IS the Year of the Snake...

 

[8Lou1]

so, we gonna have a granpa xeno, how freaking cool. congratulations with your new title to be. ive always liked the stories of frau holda. so holda or helga for a girl. i also loved the stories of richard lionheart, so richard or rick for a boy. that way you can rick roll him all day long

 

[beardedeldridge]

I prefer the ones that if you know you know if not then move along.

So instead of Crowley go Aleister, etc:
Dee
Cornelius
Johann
El
Nicholas
Levi
Simon
Soule

or better yet combine a couple of similar ones. Just try to go with something that people where you live can reasonably pronounce and at least guess at the spelling of.

Magus may be too on the nose but Eldridge is available

-Eld

 

[Xenophon]

How about a rune name. Seems almost obvious for you?
Like Berkana for a girl, Keno for a boy, maybe Teiwaz for either one etc.

I'd like something snazzy

I prefer the ones that if you know you know if not then move along.

So instead of Crowley go Aleister, etc:
Dee
Cornelius
Johann
El
Nicholas
Levi
Simon
Soule

or better yet combine a couple of similar ones. Just try to go with something that people where you live can reasonably pronounce and at least guess at the spelling of.

Magus may be too on the nose but Eldridge is available

-Eld

Got it! "Dee John"! Sounds gangstah, but with roots in the Enochian tradition. Maybe spell it DeeJohn.

 

[SkullTraill]

I'd like something snazzy

Got it! "Dee John"! Sounds gangstah, but with roots in the Enochian tradition. Maybe spell it DeeJohn.

D'Johnee

 

[Xenophon]

D'Johnee

Even better. Only the cognoscenti will get the allusion.

 

[silencewaits]

Maybe spell it DeeJohn.

DéJean as a middle name?

 

[Xenophon]

D'Jean sounds classy. The Chinese labor under the charming delusion that French sounds "romantic." Mum 'n Pop can cheese out on D'Jean. Get down with DeeJohn. "He be DeeJohn, Hipin' 'n hoppin 'n E-nochin', Gimme a 'lap zirdo noco'..."

 

[beardedeldridge]

now you know why my wife didn’t let me name any of our kids

-Eld

 

[voidcat]

Belladonna
Ariadne
Blaise
Jasper

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Lux
Ori
Flavius
Malachi
Sylvan
Thorne
Salem
Iris
Antigone
Faline
Vesper
Rosemary
Marinda
Lucida
Valeska
Zora
Selene
Morgana

 

[St. Stephen]

What are your thoughts on Renaissance-era European names? Also, when is the baby due? You could go for something that has an astrological correlation

Egregore is wild

 

[Lurker]

What about Lucifer Satan?

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You've got to admit, it has a nice ring to it.

 

[Xenophon]

What are your thoughts on Renaissance-era European names? Also, when is the baby due? You could go for something that has an astrological correlation

Egregore is wild

Those are worthy a lissen. Any faves you have? Torqato has a ring to it.