Good astronomical baby names?

[Astro Adj]

Something a little bit different for a Wednesday afternoon...how do you lovely people feel about suggesting a name for my first little one?

My wife is expecting Baby to make an appearance early next month, and we are still a bit stumped for names. We don't know if Baby is going to be a little boy or a little girl, but I thought it might be interesting to see what names other people devise! After all, what better inspiration for a name than the heavens themselves?

So far I quite like Altair for boy, and Maia and Dione for a girl.

All suggestions welcomed!

[themos]

My brother-in-law's called Jupiter so you can't have that!

[daz]

Talitha!

[acey]

Here's a handy list:

Star Names

How about Mira meaning "wonderful" or Regulus meaning "prince".

Maybe not Rana (="frog").

Best wishes!

[Mike W]

M33.....easy to remember:D

[TheThing]

Frank Zappa called his daughter 'Moon Unit', which works for both boys and girls I think?

(He son was called Dweezil, which I don't reommend!)

I wanted to call our son 'Abraxus' as, when converted to the Greek alphabet, each letter has a value. They all add up to 365 and there are 7 letters in the name. My wife said it sounded like a throat disease, so I settled for Isaac. She thinks it's because it means 'he will be happy' but you and I know it's after Sir Newton!)

[kniclander]

aaaaaaaaaahhh. good luck:)

boy - hercules

girl - cassiopiea (if you can spell it; if not, Lyra )

[DeanWatson]

Miranda!!! (or Oberon...!)

Failing that, Kafflajidhmah (Gamma Ceti). C'mon, you didn't expect serious answers did you ?! (Oh, actually, Mirandas quite good - shakespearean too!)

[Beulah]

Rashira, or Mira are pretty names.

[crepitis]

I have a niece named Miranda, but knowing her parents the choice was probably more "sex and the City" than Astronomy .

It is just one baby isnt it ?

Youre not expecting Seven sisters are you ?

[kniclander]

I had twins but wasn't allowed castor and pollux - maybe if one hadn't been a girl...

[MikeD]

girl - cassiopiea (Cassie).

Mike.

[crepitis]

How about Orion for a boy ? Unless your surname is O'Neal

[blinkity-blonk]

Congrats on the sprog!

I quite like Maia, Perseus or Orion... or Jean Luc. Steer clear of Uranus though!

[iamjulian]

M33.....easy to remember:D

Quite literally made me laugh out loud.

[Tim]

hmmmm, good question.

I vote for "Pacman" for a boy and "Tulip" for a girl. Or maybe Io, Venus, Ceres, Cassini, etc

Congrats btw

[themos]

Sirius Black is also taken.

[ashenlight]

not sure how you feel about Welsh names, but 'Seren' is welsh for star

[saturn5]

Why not pick a "normal " name.So many people give their kids weird or unusual names these days that when a more old fashioned or common name is used that in itself makes it unusual.

I so love it when a celebrity actually gives their kids a normal name.

Congrats btw.

[lulu57]

Stella? (As long as your last name isn't Artois...)

Percy? (-us)

I dare you to call your child Betelgeuse (but don't say it three times in succession!).

[skye at night]

Oort...

Steve

[Talyn]

That's your equipment budget out the window for the next 20 years then.

As for names, why does the kid have to have a strange or offbeat name? It probably won't thank you for it when it gets to school and it may put it off astronomy for life!

[lulu57]

...I must say that I used to fancy Betty and Bob for kids' names.

I could imagine myself yelling those names out the front door!

[Matthew.Blake]

My brother-in-law's called Jupiter so you can't have that!

What about Juno then?

[Talitha]

:hello2: Congratulations! :hello2:

Can't think of any boys' names except obvious ones like Charles (as in Messier) and Patrick (as in Moore).

There are a lot of beautiful girls' names, though..

Celeste, Aurora, Selene to name a few.

Talitha!

Yeah.. that one, too.