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Hiya I need help collecting a list of fairly cool but not totally out there boys names.
We are a young (ish) family & I can't see myself with a son with a super traditional name! My partners an officer in the Army- he's a William and likes quite traditional names, I work in the media & run a holistic health
centre and am slightly more hippy ish!
So far we can't agree on a name that suits us both.

I like Mason and Finlay with the more classic James as a middle name.

Ideas for others please ........

Lysander, Marcus, Jonathan (Jonty), Jolyon, Caspar, Dominic, Piers, Rupert, Ferdinand, Hector, Lemuel, Theo, Wulfram?

Call him Marlon.

Rowan, Keir, Toby.

Finlay is very, very, VERY popular, so I wouldnt say 'cool' at all.

Rudy
Sonny
Otis

We know two Marley's

I love Marlon. Fabulous. Everyone panned me when I suggested it on here though!

How about

Travis
Winston
Hamish
Heston
Curtis
Jared
Brandon
Lennox?

Just as an aside, very nearly every baby boy I know born in the last year has James as a middle name! I'm not exaggerating. It's lovely but ubiquitous as a boys middle name. Ubiquitous.

Theo
Ezra
Colm
Sean
Rory
Angus

Donnie (my DS1)
Vinnie (my DS2)
Ace
Blayze
River
Jet
Jude
??

I love Finlay it is popular though.
Mason is a bit too Disney channel for me.

Stanley
John/ Johnny
Albert
Francis
Maxwell

Quentin James

Dexter James

sound cool imo.

And yes, I know so, so many Fin/Finns and am getting a little bored of it (and am starting to have difficulty remembering their names )

Monty
Ethan
Jacob
Louis
Jared
Caleb

Victor
Julius
Flynn
Brendan

Liking Keir whitsunday
Rufus
Saul
Jonah

Zac/Zachary
Evan
Euan
Joel
Aidan
Niall
Quentin
Cody

Dh works in the media and our sons are Cassius and Rex, not meeja cool really but jolly smashing imo

My dgs is Finn James

I love Milo and Axel, and Joshua. And Lazarus, Lucien, Maxwell. Cailan nice too.

Hamish is the Gaelic equivalent of James, as is Seamus, so avoid these with your choice of middle name.

We were going to use Efryn if DD had been a boy. It's a variant of Ephraim which is a saints name so that should keep your traditional DP happy!!

We chose Travis if DD would have been a boy. I think it's a bit cool. Also love Jesse, but maybe not if you want James as a middle name

I also think Rex is very cool (our cat's name) and I love love love Gus, but DH vetoed it.

I have an Idris...

Pottering, do you have a nn for Idris? (Love that name btw)

Ferdy is a great name

Josiah
Vincent (although there are 3 at school)
Marcus
Otto/Otis
Idris
Edwin

I also like Keir but that's a secondary education's worth of gazing at the god-like beauty of Keir in the year above