Intriguing Character Names

Updates the tired Derek or Eric.

Extreme cool possibilities in either of these modern categories, like a postmodern Linc.

Zinnia is an unusual floral choice with a bit more edge and energy than most and beginning to find its way onto namers' wish lists of botanical possibilities. Named after an eighteenth German botanist called Johann Gottfried Zinn, it appears in Roald Dahl's Matilda as the young protagonist's mother.

Zio is a pet form for names ending with 'zio', such as Maurizio, Marzio and Tiburzio. As a full name in Italian, though it wouldl be like naming your son Uncle Uncle.

There are many variations of this name, with or without the initial T and the final h, with one p or two. In the Bible she was the wife of Moses.