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Hi!
I'm writing a novel at the moment, and part of it is set in the 1880s. A well-off, Arts-and-Crafts type couple have three daughters (Flavia, Julia, Lydia) and one son who I'm struggling with a name for.
I want his name to fit with the mood of the novel, but also sum up, quite explicity, everything he stands for. The most important things about him are that,
a) he is a boy - the only son, and
b) he is the most important thing in his mother's world: her children have displaced religion as the backbone of her life.
At the moment his name is Christian, which deals with the second point. But I'd like him to have an explicity masculine name - one with a meaning like "man" or "son". So far I've come up with Ben, Adam and Andrew - but none of them seem to fit. Do you guys have any other ideas?
I've also found "Saul", which means prayed-for, but it seems a bit stuffy for a nine-year-old.
Thanks.
I'm writing a novel at the moment, and part of it is set in the 1880s. A well-off, Arts-and-Crafts type couple have three daughters (Flavia, Julia, Lydia) and one son who I'm struggling with a name for.
I want his name to fit with the mood of the novel, but also sum up, quite explicity, everything he stands for. The most important things about him are that,
a) he is a boy - the only son, and
b) he is the most important thing in his mother's world: her children have displaced religion as the backbone of her life.
At the moment his name is Christian, which deals with the second point. But I'd like him to have an explicity masculine name - one with a meaning like "man" or "son". So far I've come up with Ben, Adam and Andrew - but none of them seem to fit. Do you guys have any other ideas?
I've also found "Saul", which means prayed-for, but it seems a bit stuffy for a nine-year-old.
Thanks.
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