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Cole Alexander
Cole Jonathan
Cole Elijah
Cole Dominic

Personally, I think Cole works best as a middle name (for the flow, you know) - you can always call your kid by his middle name, if you want. My suggestions:

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Alexander Cole
Henry Cole
Jonathan Cole
William Cole

I really like Cole. There aren't enough people named this - at least not where I live, and I think it's a refreshing change from the overused Colin.

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Cole Adam
Cole Joshua
Cole Isaiah
Cole Anthony
Cole Alexander
Cole Jonathan
Cole Benjamin
Cole Brendan
Cole Lucas
Cole Sebastian
Cole Bryce
Cole Jeremy

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See any that you like?

I'm trying to like Cole. I have an Irish baby name book that lists Cole as a modern variant of Comghall / Cowal. It was the name of the founder of a monastery in Bangor, County Down. Also, other famous Irish scholars were named this and kept learning alive through the Dark Ages. I should love the name for this alone (thanks, guys!). But it still has the feeling of a modern, trendy, soap-opera name to my ears.

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But for the sake of those Irish scholars, how about:

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Cole Patrick
Cole Brendan (St. Brendan the Navigator is said to have reached America centuries before the Vikings)
Cole Seamus
Cole Eamonn ("AY-mun")
Cole Ennis
Cole Malachy ("MAL-uh-kee")
Cole Desmond
Cole Declan ("DEC-lun")
Cole Brian
Cole Fintan
Cole Andrew
Cole Alistair
Cole Duncan
Cole Angus
Cole Morgan

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If you're into Irish names at all, how about Columba, nn Cole?

This message was edited 8/21/2007, 11:14 AM