Are these boys names a bit silly?

[alasia]

My children are called Ellis (boy) and Amelia and I'm currently expecting another boy.

I don't want a name that is too popular, nor considered 'wacky' - and today have come across this name:

Tean (according to a baby naming website, pn 'tee-en' which I assume means Tee-un?)

and also:

Oran (pronounced as it looks - Or-un)

Tean is Cornish according to the website I found it on - and as my familty originate from Cornwall I thought it'd be nice; and Oran is Celtic I think?

Does anyone know if a) these are real names, b) they will be taken as 'silly' seeing as I live in England, and c) they even slightly go with my existing LOs names?

Honest opinions very welcome :)

[ShatnersBassoon]

They're real names, and not necessarily silly. But they are unusual and your son will have a life of spelling, repeating and explaining his name to people.

[KnitterNotTwitter]

I think they're both a bit too unusual to go with your existing names if you want to do the matchy-matchy thing...

[Ragwort]

Sorry, but I think both names are very wacky .

[alasia]

Hmm. Yes I do want to match names, problem is the surname is Short and I've spent my entire life hating it, and having to spell it to everyone (most people think my surname is Shaw)- so to make LO have to spell his first name too is a bit much, I think.

I thought that Oran, Ellis and Amelia went well together for the sound of the names, but dont look as good written (typed) down.

Any other suggestions then? :)

[ChippingInMistressSteamMop]

Oran doesn't go with the others - too difficult to say all 3 together.

Tean goes with the others, but it is one of those names that makes you go wonder where they got that from....

[PurveyorOfWoo]

I like Oran

How about Evan, Keir, Owen

[weimy]

Oran gutan? (sp?)

[2plus2more]

Not keen on Tean (and I wouldn't have a clue how to pronounce it - my initial thought was just like "Teen")

I really like Oran though and think it goes well with the other two. You have to think about what order you are likely to say them in. I would always list the kids oldest to youngest so my youngest names had to fit well at the end of the list rather than in the middle or at the start! (iyswim!)

Don't have any other ideas for you I'm afraid as my 2 unused boys names both start with E and I don't think either of them would work with your other two. (1 of them is very similar to Ellis!)

[alasia]

Ok I get it ;) no more Oran- although the little boy on the kid's programme I saw earlier with that name was cute,which made me consider it.

[alasia]

2plus - tbh I can't imagine a situation when I'd have to list my children's names, but then they're only 2 and 3, and no one really asks me about them like that anyway.
I tend to have them with me at all times and can therefore point to each one and say "this is".

I'll keep thinking; I agree though, my first thought on Tean was that it was pronounced teen, until I looked it up :)

[MillieMoo81]

I like the name Tean (yes it's pronounced Tee-un)there's quite a few down here on the Devon/Cornwall border but the only Tean's I know are girls.

[2plus2more]

how would you sign the whole family's names in Christmas or birthday cards...? That's probably how I "list" mine most often.

[ChippingInMistressSteamMop]

Try standing in a playground calling them all :)

When someone asks your kids names (when they aren't there).

It will happen more than you think when they are a bit older.

[flipfloppop]

I know of an Odhran pronounced Oran and lie it a lot. Not keen on Tean tbh and you'll be forever telling people how to pronounce it

[zingally]

I don't like Tean at all. Sounds very made-up and pretentious.

Oran is okay... But again, pretentious.

[thinkingkindly]

I knew an Oran. He was Jewish though. Never seemed like an odd name to me. Tean seems weird though because it is not at all clear how one would pronounce it (I assumed it was 'teen')

[SandStorm]

I know an Oban - that's a lovely boys name.

[Bunbaker]

Oran is a major city in Algeria (anyone read La Peste?) Also Oran(g) Utan! Tean will get pronounced Teen and he will always have to spell his name out and correct pronunciation. (I know what that entails, having had to do so for most of my life, and I find it very irritating). Have you got any more names?

[alasia]

Haha...nope! I'm having a severe mental block on the naming front, and considering Amelia only got her name on the way to register her birth at 5.5 weeks, I fear this one may just end up being named 'Baby'! :)

[Janoschi]

Tean. Middle name Biscuits?

[kalo12]

don't like Oran - Oran G tang!

what about Taran - also a cornish name

[Bellie]

what about Orin? - pronounced the same as Oran but without the obvious association? Hebrew roots.

[ragged]

I don't like them, sorry. Ellis is pretty far out for me, too, though, tbh, and Amelia is a tongue-twister. I'm partial to stronger male names. Like... John, Tom, Mark. Ian is quite unusual nowadays :). And NOBODY will ask you how to spell it.

[CouldNeverHave3]

both sound like 'trying too hard' unless you live in the area they originate, I always feel.

I come from a remote place in Scotland where Norse names are common and are 'normal' there because they have been used by local families beacuse of the viking history in the area.

If I bumped into a someone with one of those names who came from a family with no connection and was brought up 500miles away I would find it very odd indeed!