I like to keep running lists of names that are appropriate various situations and scenerios. Sometimes these are fun, like “Good Names for Civil War Deserters” (Zebulon, Zeb for short), and sometimes they’re necessary, like “People Who Might Interact with Beverly Winthrop” (Dale Walker, assistant Dairy Queen Manager, 1982).
Good Names for Stepdads:
Jeff
Dave
Stan
Greg
Mark
Bill
Gary
Rick
The key for this one, I think, is to have an incredibly common name that still manages to seem alien, whether it’s because the name has fallen out of fashion, or because it doesn’t match the last name, or because for whatever reason “Rick” just sounds like the name of a guy your mom would like, but you wouldn’t.
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