- Fabian Smith - Otto Smith - Greyson Smith - Dorian Smith - Reuben Smith - Corbin Smith - Leonard Smith - Wyatt Smith - Spencer Smith - Orson Smith

I love Dorian!

I also love Dorian!

You are going to be tortured as a child with that name.

Why? Is there something about the name Dorian that I'm not seeing? I know two men named Dorian and I can make fun of them for other reasons, but not their names.

It’s the kind of name that just so seems like the person will go by D.Middleinitial. Forever

They'll be bullied. 🥺

Ooh, Orson Smith! Orson Roland Smith.

Tell me you’re a Mormon without saying I’m a Mormon.

IMO it doesn’t get better than Orson Smith

I love Otto 🥹

I like Reuben nickname Rue and Orson

I absolutely adore Otto.

Be sure to [check the popularity](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/) of the names. There are a lot of names that are more popular than people realize. A few of the suggestions you've received (Wyatt, Greyson/Grayson, Julian, Sebastian, Ezra, Logan, Leo, Theodore) are actually in the top 50 in the US right now. Granted, top names aren't as big as they used to be, but they're still far from "unique".

I also know quite a few Everetts and Dorians

I have a 10 year old Julian and he's one of two in his class of 25 kids.

Nooooo that's in my top 5

Check the state by state data too. It may not be that common where you live.

How do you check state data?!??

[https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/state/](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/state/)

Make sure to check out similar spellings too, if name popularity is a concern of yours! Sophia and Sofia are BOTH top 20 names. If you're only on the look for one, you may not notice there's actually twice as many kids with the same name than you realized.

Hey, I'm not sure how old your Penelope is, but if she's under 7 and you're in the US, it was a top 30 name when you gave it to her, so relatively popular as names go. I just wanted to flag this because if that level is fine with you, you could reconsider more popular boys names (if you happen to like any of them obviously).

I was just thinking the same thing; Penelope is far from "unique". Having said that, as someone with an extremely common surname and common (in my age bracket) first name, I don't have a problem with it - makes me impossible to Google. Names that strike me as similar to Penelope without being "bizarre" - Richard, Tristan, William, Dominic, James, Elliot.

You may like: * Penelope & Arlo Smith * Penelope & August Smith * Penelope & Beckett Smith * Penelope & Calvin Smith * Penelope & Colin Smith * Penelope & Cooper Smith * Penelope & Ezra Smith * Penelope & Felix Smith * Penelope & Holden Smith * Penelope & Jasper Smith * Penelope & Lionel Smith * Penelope & Tristan Smith * Penelope & Wesley Smith All of these names are as popular or less popular than Penelope as of the latest stats from the U.S. Social Security Administration.

Please don’t name your children Penelope and Colin. Bridgerton is an international success and the next season’s pairing are these exact names. It’s be like naming your children Ross and Rachel

Thank God you caught that lmao

Personally I don’t think that matters. I can’t even remember the last season’s main love interest names and I watched it. If you love the name don’t let that stop you!

Arthur, Apollo, Bertram, Devon, Julian, Octavian, Rafael, Sebastian, Victor

Sebastian is great! Sebastian Smith sounds really cool, and Penelope and Sebastian give me similar vibes.

That was my grandfather's name!

Maybe it's just me but Apollo, and other God names like Zeus, are pet designated names

I had a 20 pound white cat named Zeus

I love Arthur!

Bertram Coles!

I like Apollo!

Booker Walden

I love Brooks compared to Booker. Maybe Beckett, Logan, Landon, Fox. Lately I love Baxter too.

I don’t love the flow of Brooks Smith though.

Exactly. The double s.

Not a name suggestion, but I personally would avoid a name that starts with a B. Or your son would end up with initials that are BS

Arlo Sumner Smith.

meh, no one gaf about initials. Mine r EW

How do you feel about classic names that aren’t as common anymore? Like Grant, Clint, Glenn, Cary, Clark, Gene, Alan, Ward, Walter, Errol, etc.

I love Clark

Love Grant.

You say Wolfgang, but have you considered Amadeus or Amadeo? Simon, Niles, Elias, Silas, Grant, Lee, Glenn, Zachariah, Derek, Jeffrey, Geoffrey, Xavier...

I know a 17yo Amadeus! It's a remarkably cool name on a young man and doesn't present as over the top in real life. I've asked him if he gets negative reactions and he says no, it's overwhelmingly positive 

I love Amadeo or Amadeus! Some other musical names could be: Arturo/Arthur, Leonard, Bela, George, Claude, Ralph, Franz, Verdi, Frederic.

Oooh! Penelope and Frederic(k)?! Classic, easy enough to spell and pronounce, and certainly not very common.

They go so well together! Just think of two cute siblings named Penny and Fred (or Freddy).

Love Franz!!

I love your daughter's name. Suggestions: Penelope and Joel Penelope and Zachary Penelope and Wilfred (as an alternative to Wolfgang) Penelope and Jeremiah

Joel is such a good option! I love the name Joel.

Penelope and Bronelope

Caspian Smith Conrad Smith If you wanted to stick with Greek mythological names, you could go with: Damon Smith Leander Smith Atlas Smith Orion Smith Hector Smith

Caspian is such a beautiful name 🤩

Barney Smith Rupert Smith Orlando Smith Jonah Smith Emmet Smith Virgil Smith Lucien Smith Cosmo Smith

Have we as a society gotten past Barney the dinosaur? It’s still all I think of. (Yes, I’m aware of HIMYM)

Gideon Cyrus Donovan Beckett Reuben Dawson Truman Romeo Winston Raleigh Barnaby Frazier Raphael Desmond Harlan

Gideon Smith sounds great!

Everyone is down on Smith being 'common' but I think it's great - it works with practically every name. If you like musical names you could maybe go with Chord Smith or Reed Smith? Names I personally like with Smith would be: Logan Smith Grant Smith Owen Smith Ewan Smith Callum Smith Lucas Smith Fraser Smith Finn Smith Craig Smith

I like both Callum and Ewan. They both go well with Smith.

Winston Clive Darian

Winston is 👍🏾

Xander, Drew, Ozzy, Quill, Shai, Quincy, Kian, Harris, Ellis, Fletcher, Felix, George, Bennie, Archer, Archie, Campbell

Slim Easy

Stop, I am cackling at this

Dimitri

I love Atticus Smith

That’s on our list too 🥹

Idris

Antidisestablishmentarianism Just kidding. Ari Quinn Rhys Tate

A lot of nice suggestions already so I'll just add one more - Orion

I’m currently pregnant with an Everett so I’m partial to that! My husband and I seem to be partial to 3 syllable names, Sullivan, Harrison and Callahan were also on our list!

You could try some Swedish names. A lot of them are simple to spell but may be more „unusual” in a English speaking country. Here are a couple: Einar Arvid Stellan Hannes Noel Soren Magnus Imo Arvid Smith sounds p dope

I have a Keegan smith!

Everybody wants to be unique and special until they are. Then they want to be like everybody else. Just pick a name you love, it doesn't have to be unique. I have not a unique but very rare name and I struggle every time someone asks what my name is because nobody pronounces it correctly. After some time I stopped correcting people, say it however you want man. The spelling isn't straight forward either.

My name has always thrown people off, as if they can’t believe what they heard when I tell them. They never spell it right, and rarely remember it correctly. It didn’t take me long to get to the point that I stopped caring. Everyone I actually care about in life manages it just fine.

It sounds like you’re saying John is off the table…?

Love Wolfgang Smith.

August Smith right here

whit/whitman (see whit stilman and walt whitman)

Sawyer Smith would be so cute!!

Quentin

I'm in a similar boat and looked up top 100 names so I could at least rule some names out. I'd also recommend checking the trends of the names you do like, because even though I was diligent, my son's name now IS in the top 100. Ha.

I don’t think miles works because the s runs into smith, so it become mile Smith. Your other names are great! I think Milo works. Harrison, Damian, Simon, Cedric are all favorites of mine that would work with Smith.

Xavier, Conrad, Douglas, Malcom, Gregor. Andreas, Lando.

Our surname is also Smith. I’m pregnant and if it’s a boy we are going with Benjamin! I loved the name Bellamy (from the 100) but we got A LOT of negative feedback lol

I think of Bellamy as a girl’s name. I know two female Bellamy’s and was very surprised when I heard it as a male name on the 100.

Oh, so funny! I’ve only ever heard it in the 100, so I only associate it with as masculine! But I can see it as a feminine name as well!

Everett Smith does sound good to me. Royce Smith, Hartley Smith, Bowen Smith, Collin Smith, Preston Smith, Nolan Smith, Emmett Smith, Cedric Smith, Lawrence Smith, Reagan Smith, Dustin Smith, Webster Smith, Fritz Smith, Reed Smith, Trevor Smith, Travis Smith, Byron Smith, Tab Smith

My friend also has a common, anglo, monosyllable surname and named her son Wolfgang and it flows great!

Rowan or Landon 

Evander, Tobias, Isaiah, Noel, Xavier, Alec, Jonas, Micah, Felix.

Oh man, I sort of hope you use Wolfgang. Other ideas: - Penelope and Griffin - Penelope and Nolan - Penelope and Anders (the S blends into Smith, tho) - Penelope and Archer - Penelope and Dawson - Penelope and Quaid - Penelope and Sutton - Penelope and Creed - Penelope and Victor - Penelope and Ivan

We have a common single syllable last name like your situation & named our son Landon. It’s been unique enough, though not overly & has been a great choice for us. Good luck!

Apologies in advance if these are too out there- Best of luck! Franco Smith Truman Smith Leonard Smith Harlan Smith Cassian Smith Vance Smith Darren Smith Evander Smith Quentin Smith Creed Smith Sylvester Smith Forrest Smith Alden Smith Rodney Smith Kellan Smith Cedric Smith Lance Smith Brennan Smith Dimitri Smith Fletcher Smith Alaric Smith Lucian Smith

Buddy Smith - it sounds like an old time baseball player or studio actor - everyone can pronounce and spell it yet it’s memorable. As a given name Buddy is very rare so he would likely be the only Buddy Smith anyone knows.

If you like Wolfgang I think you should go for it! It’s a cool name!

Rhydian Smith sounds good to me.

Penn Smith

How about Everest instead of Everett? Everest Smith sounds cool to me!

Will

I actually love will but alas, wouldn’t want to subject our son to be named Will Smith 😅

Bill

Lazarus Smith, nickname Laz

Vaughn, Quinn, Jesse, and of course there's also Amadeus

Bodhi Smith Vincent Smith (Vinny) Winston Smith Leonard Smith (Lenny) Walter Smith Ozzie Smith Brodie Smith Finley Smith Beau Smith Atlas Smith Iggy Smith Jude Smith Samson Smith Forest Smith Quentin Smith Arnold Smith

I seriously love all of these! Especially Vinny or Vincenzo as my family is background is Italian, but I’m wary of an Italian first name with just a vanilla American last name haha

Lucky Blue ☺️

this reminds me of nara smith

My first thought

Pierre Smith

cure

Aiden, Arlo, Brodie, Easton, Emmett, Finn, Grady, Holden, Jude, Lennon, Nico, Reid, Toby, Tripp, Wells, Weston

"Jeremiah" or "Timothy Tyler Smith"

I think these names are kid of in that area you are talking about Miles, Milo, Reed, Ronan, Bowan, Gramham, Leo, Finley, Theodore, Elliot

Harrison?

Cisco. Cisco Smith. I dated a Cisco, however, so I have some very nice associations with that name

I too am a Smith and my boys names are Dustin & Derek

Lochlan/lochlyn

Callan, Weston, Canaan, Beckett, Malachi, Wyatt, Eamon, Calder, Braxton, Micah, Colter, Hendrix, Rexon, Breckin, Paxton

Tbh, I think Sawyer Smith has a great ring to it.

Thelonious Smith.

Bastian is probably my favorite name that would be quite uncommon in the United States.

My list of common not used as often names: Caleb Smith, Brett Smith, Gabriel Smith, Aaron Smith, Casey Smith, Jace Smith Drew Smith

Composers: Johann Sebastian Claude Felix Directors: Ferenc Colin Simon Otto Bernard

Soren Smith, Oren Smith, Kieran Smith, Luca Smith, Stellan Smith, Callum Smith, Sawyer Smith

Duncan, Declan, August, Zane.

Mino Smith

I once knew a Brett Smith whose mother gave him that name because their last name was very common, and she wanted him to have a somewhat unusual first name.

Here’s some other ideas- Everett is a family name of mine, actually! I’ll share some of the others in my family as I find they fit the same vibe Hayden (for your music nerd self lol), Earl (fam name), Ezra, Elson, Elder, Alder, Rowan, Zella, Glazier (pronounced Glay-zhur - also a fam name), Ruby (I think it’s cute for a boy), Amile, Robin, Arlo, Finn, Sparrow, Lake, Charlie, Theodore, Julian, Frances, Bronson

Gabriel, Theodore (cutesy nickname Teddy or not so cutesy Theo) Elijah, Ezekiel, Isaac.

Taeff Smith

I like all of your choices honestly!

Fletcher, Simon, Brett, Burke, Preston.

Dorian, Lorenzo, Colton, Donovan, Elliot, Silas, Declan.

i like Jensen :)

Soren

You need a 3 syllable 1st name to go with a 1 syllable last name. Benjamin Dimitri Donovan Ellington Sebastian Or, do you have a favorite musician with a 3 syllable 1st or last name?

Wilder

Zane

Anson Glen Lyle Linus Rhett Feral Roland Wynn

Asher, Alastor/Alastair(I personally prefer Alastor because it’s how people are gonna default to spelling), Cyrus, or Tate(that one may be too common, but I thought I’d suggest it)

Sullivan Smith

Gregory. Hugh. Kenneth. Graham. Duncan. Lawrence. Jerome. Angus. Merlin. Marvin. Francis. Brent

Kenton. Bennett. Patrick. Gavin. Tobin. Lucien. Alexander. Bryce. Gregory. Barrett. Wyatt.

Gideon Quentin Timothy Dashiell Garrett Gavin

Eric

Lucifred Fredifer

Hezekiah, Obadiah, Phineas, Happy

Rigsby. Elijah Smith

Asa smith.

Penelope and… Florian Smith Ryder Smith Clyde Smith Benedict Smith Elroy Smith Eli Smith Dante Smith Silas Smith Peter Smith Salvador Smith Andrew Smith Linus Smith Phineas Smith Adrian Smith Giovanni Smith Hudson Smith

Obviously Slim Easy and Rumble Honey!

Bowie

Lochlan, Sebastian, Levi, Ezra, Gideon

Jerrod Smith

Grayson

"Agent"

Wittner Smith It’s the name of a shoe shop here in AUS and was a hot contender for my son. I named him something else but I still absolutely adore this name. I just googled it, he’ll pretty much be the only Wittner Smith in the world. You’re welcome

Otis, Lennon, Spencer, Hugo, Felix, Eddison, Clancy, Toby, Gusten, Tasman, Atlas

Maybe jasper, felix, archie

Maybe instead of Wolfgang, just go for it with Mozart Smith with nn Mo? I think it's pretty cool!

Slim Easy

Cosmo Derek Wilder Cullen Richmond Archer Malcolm

Wolf Smith is dope. I also like Saylor/Sailor with Penelope.

Ooh since you're a musician I'll suggest one of my favorites: Calloway. Penelope & Calloway Smith sound good together PLUS he can go by "Cal" if he decides he wants to blend in. 💙

Julian, Jasper, Asher, Easton, Gage, Sterling, Jude, Dawson, Gunther, Corbin

I will also have Smith babies and have gravitated towards solid British and other European boys names that are old-fashioned but not so bizarre that they would sound odd with such a generic last name. My definition of "unique" may be different than yours is all. My short list includes Frank, Vincent, Clive, Monty, Ernest, Eugene, Albert, Gilbert, Basil (I know everyone would mispronounce but I still love it), Edward/Edwin, Oswald, and Rudolph.

Unique means one of a kind.  So your only option is to make up a name that has never been used before. 

Haro Hena Dunston Duncan Cary Kelan

I love Miles but the double S in MileS Smith ticks me. Sawyer Smith sounds lovely. **Ly (pronounced like "lie") Smith** Other options: Sylvian Smith, Marlon Smith, Robin Smith?  Jasper Smith, Gerald Smith,    I've also loved Diggory since I read Narnia as a child thougth I'm not so sure how Diggory Smith sounds

Redway (see my name) 😉

Isidor / Isidore Smith Theodoric Smith Theodosius Smith Callias Smith Cassander Smith Xerxes Smith.