Kimi - boy name
We are Brits living in the UK and are due a baby boy in January.
We've found boy names to be extremely hard compared to girl names. We don't want anything really common, but we also don't want something so rare that it sounds made up / like it was meant for a sci fi movie.
There are a few classic boy names which are not necessarily in the top 100, but they're "fine". We find them generic and boring, but they would do if needed, we just wouldn't be excited about them.
I'm an F1 fan and I was watching Kimi Antonelli win the Italian GP a couple of weeks back / lead the title at such a young age and I thought, this guy is a legend, and oh what a cool name!! And I've loved it ever since. My husband also loves it, but he admits he doesn't like the idea of a boy being called Kim for short (even though he actually knows more male Kim's than female ones).
We like how it sounds, we like it with our double-barrel surname and initials, we like that it's unique but not so unique it's unheard of (even if you're not an F1 fan you could say he's named after Kimi Antonelli and Kimi Räikkönen and people would then understand it's a real name!)... But we obviously don't want to name our son something that people could find really strange or he get bullied for. I think we live in a much more "gender positive" society than when we grew up so perhaps kids don't get bullied for being too girly anymore? But I don't know (I do personally actually like that it can be as masculine or feminine as he would like it to be in future). It's also not very "English" and some people may think it's strange.
I do also note that the name Lando (after Lando Norris the F1 champion) is now #228 most popular in England and Wales and rising, so I also think Kimi will become more popular / known as he's smashing F1 records.
What do you think? I don't want to set my kid up for failure. Despite my husband not being keen on Kim, he still loves Kimi. And in all honesty we can't think of anything we'd prefer more!