Gone are the days when parenthood meant that your life from this day forward would consist of nothing but conversations about poop patterns and playdates.
These days, it is totally achievable (isn’t it?!) to hang onto your street-cred cool while also pushing a pram around. And if you fancy a family life that reflects just how young and hip you still are, start by picking a baby name that reflects just that.
Here are some of our current favourite cool kid monikers (and you’ll thank us when junior won’t be one of seven in his class with the same name in a few years’ time!):
1. Juniper
Meaning: Juniper tree.
The flora-thing is totally on point these days (hence the trillion Rose’s and Lily’s running around).
2. Serenity
Meaning: peaceful disposition.
Yoga-mums rejoice, apart from calling your kid ‘Namaste’, we think Serenity is as good as it gets.
3. Brixton
Meaning: Brixton is a district of London.
With a name like Brixton, we reckon parents will be scheduling playdates months in advance, hoping some of your kid’s uber-cool will rub off on their own offspring.
4. Aspen
Meaning: quaking tree.
Love to Facebook-brag about how you went skiing over the holidays? This is the name for you. (Or your baby, we mean).
5. Wren
Meaning: A wren is a bird
Hipsters will love this name (and in fairness; we do too.)
6. Cressida
Meaning: gold.
This sounds so new and fresh (and we love the fact that His Royal Hotness, Prince Harry, dated a Cressida!), but it is in fact a 3000-year-old Greek name. And also, the Hunger Games reference is not lost either.
7. Blair
Meaning: “Dweller on the plain.”
Blair Waldorf. Enough said.
8. Fallon
Meaning: From the Irish surname O’Fallamhain
Foodies will know the health food haven that is Fallon & Byrne on Dublin’s Exchequer Street, and we think this moniker is totally on point as a first name too.
9. Huxley
Meaning: inhospitable place.
We can’t even with this one. Any kid named Huxley is bound to be an absolute legend, no?
10. Cadence
Meaning: Rhythm.
We think the world will agree that this one is a winner.
11. Finley
Meaning: “fair-haired warrior.”
This girl’s name is fresh and fun, we think.
12. Scout
Meaning. Unknown
Because Scott is just so vanilla (and Volvo-driving suburbian).
What do YOU think, guys? Are you hipster enough for these? Join the baby name conversation with us on Twitter at @Herfamilydotie
