BE A HIPPIE
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Even if the fact that he's pushing forty isn't a tip that he was born around the Summer of Love, he was probably born somewhere in the time frame where the ideals of peace, love and understanding and the bohemian lifestyle was really rocking strong! Groovy became a new vocabulary word and one of many cool baby names that popped up at around the same time.
When the outlook appears dim and there's no real light on the horizon, new parents begin to reach for light hearted, fun and non-conformist baby names. Tradition or religion had no place in generating hippie baby names. Lots of the trendy hippy baby names were taken from nature or from spiritual attributes that might have a hand in making the world a better place. Then again, who can say where Frank and Gail got the hippie baby names, Dweezil or Moon Unit.
Hippies are big fans of freedom and naming their kids in unusual ways is just one of the ways they exercise this right. Conventional names are kicked to the curb and those crazy flower children go to work to outdo their pals. They entered the hippie baby names competition with one of a kind mystical and even philosophical words and maybe they forgot that they would use that word to call their kids to dinner. Not to mention these hippie baby names were destined for use on college diplomas and job resumes!
It's interesting and not surprising that lots of hippie baby names are unisex or gender neutral. A hippie baby boy might be called Sky and a hippie baby girl might be Bravery depending on the beliefs of the parent doing the choosing. If we didn’t know Dweezil was Frank’s son, who could say whether that particular hippy baby name is feminine or masculine?
The seam between the eras of hippy culture and flower power is virtually invisible. It's difficult to tell when one ended and the other began or if they are one and the same. However, the changes in baby naming patterns were slightly more obvious. During the hey day of the hippies rejection of everything that represented the establishment was almost as popular as psychedelic drugs hence the hippie baby names that were hard to spell. Lots of philosophical sounding hippie baby names came from various religions practicing forms of spiritual enlightenment. These are your hippie baby names like Dharma and Chakra.
While those are certainly cool baby names and I'm sure they've worn well over the passage of time, my personal favorites that were popular hippie baby names were of the "feel good" variety such as:
- Windsong
- Daydream
- Cloud
One flower power family that we know had three little baby bohemians whose hippie baby names all began with "S" and went like this:
STORMY (the oldest) SUMMER (the middle girl) and SKY (the baby boy)
You've got to admit those hippies had a lot of things right. They made some excellent and unique points about society, the environment and even family values. Even if you weren't completely on board with the free love train of thought, you have to admit those hippie baby names were really cool and often thought provoking.
HERE ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE HIPPIE BABY NAMES:
HIPPIE BABY NAMES BEGINNING WITH A
- APPLE
- AURA
