Saturday, September 1, 2007

The New Exotic Traditionals, Part Two

Second verse, same as the first.

Removed from Wattenberg's Exotic Traditionals for reasons of popularity:
Alonzo, Andreas, Antony, Atticus, Augustus, Axel, Cedric, Cornelius, Damian, Demetrius, Desmond, Dominick, Elias, Emmanuel, Ezekiel, Ezra, Felix, Gideon, Isaias, Jasper, Justus, Lucian, Malachi, Matthias, Maxim, Maximilian, Milo, Orlando, Quinton, Raphael, Roman, Romeo, Samson, Simeon, Thaddeus, Titus, Zachariah

Removed from the Exotic Traditionals list for reasons of illegitimacy: Adelard, Aidric, Artemas, Beauregard, Dashiell, Falco, Garth, Lafayette, Montague, Montgomery, Regis, Tristram, Wolf

Removed because, frankly, I would worry about people who used these names for children: Adolphus, Fabio, Hannibal, Philo, Severin

Which leaves us with: Absalom, Aeneas, Alaric, Aldric, Algernon, Alistair, Aloysius, Alphonso, Auberon, Barnabas, Barnaby, Bartholomew, Benedict, Bram, Casimir, Cassius, Constantin, Cosmo, Dimitri, Eliezer, Ephraim, Erasmus, Erastus, Evander, Ferdinand, Florian, Galen, Gawain, Gervase, Horatio, Ignatius, Ishmael, Ivor, Jabez, Japheth, Jedidiah, Joachim, Lazar, Lazarus, Leander, Leif, Lucius, Magnus, Marcellus, Marius, Napoleon, Nicodemus, Niels, Pascal, Peregrine, Phineas, Piers, Severin, Stanislaus, Tarquin, Tavish, Thelonius, Theophilus, Torquil, Ulysses, Zebedee

The New Exotic Traditionals (my suggestions):
Ambrose
Amos
Anatoly
Aonghus/Angus
Archibald
Avram
Azriel
Baltazar
Basim
Benoit
Bertram
Cian
Cillian
Cormac
Crispin
Diarmaid
Dietrich
Edmond
Emile
Eoghan
Enrico
Giuseppe
Gregor
Hamish
Henrik
Homer
Ilan
Jago
Klaus
Laurent
Lemuel
Leonidas
Leopold
Linus
Malachy
Marek
Merlin
Milos
Mordecai
Noam
Olaf
Piet
Renato
Rudolf
Rufus
Stefanos
Stellan
Sylvain
Tommaso
Tzvi
Vadim
Willem

Suggestions, please.

1 comments:

Jillian said...

I like a lot of your suggestions, Leopold is a favorite of mine. You are very good at getting the general flavor of a theme that Wattenburg starts. I know who I'll be bugging for suggestion.

jillian (bluebelle)