By Pamela Satran

　　Geek is chic, at least when it comes to boys’ names. Looking at classic boys’ names that lie below the Top 1000, a lot of them are sweetly geeky. These are not the obvious Cool Guy names like Nico and Shane; instead, they’re the names of the computer nerds who go on to make a billion dollars and help save the world.

　　Depending on your taste, some of these names (hi, Marmaduke! hi, Hyman!) may be too geeky for you. Others, like Edmond or Van or Wallace, may strike you as downright suave.

　　But there may be some names for boys here that seem to reach the perfect balance between geek and chic.

　　Arnold

　　Barney

　　Barry

　　Douglas

　　Earl

　　Edmond

　　Elmo

　　Gary

　　Geoffrey

　　Gerard

　　Herbert

　　Herman

　　Horace

　　Howard

　　Hubert

　　Hyman

　　Ira

　　Irvin

　　Ivor

　　Kermit

　　Lancelot

　　Laurence

　　Leland

　　Lemuel

　　Leroy

　　Lester

　　Lionel

　　Lyle

　　Marmaduke

　　Maxfield

　　Melvin

　　Merlin

　　Milton

　　Mortimer

　　Murray

　　Myron

　　Neil

　　Noel

　　Percy

　　Philbert

　　Randolph

　　Roderick

　　Rudolph

　　Rudy

　　Rudyard

　　Seymour

　　Sidney

　　Stanley

　　Stuart

　　Urban

　　Van

　　Vaughan

　　Waldo

　　Wallace

　　Willis

　　What do you think? Too geeky? Too self-consciously hip? And which are just right?