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Boys' names - help! Warning - very difficult task!

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Workinglate · 01/07/2014 14:27

We are struggling to think of even one name we both like. Both fairly fussy.

Criteria:

2 syllables ideally, but no more than 3.
Can't end with an M or an S
Preferably doesn't start with B, R, L
No nature names

To fit with our separate preferences, it can't be too unusual but neither can it be too strongly traditional.

Definitely not:
Henry, Arlo, Frederick, John, Ian, William, Neo, Scott, Leo

Names that one of us quite likes and the other is a bit 'meh, maybe' about:
Kester
Owen
Zeno
Ruan/Rewan
Elwyn
Quinlan
Jared
Cooper
Eisley
Gibson
Cameron
Ivan
Lennox/Lenox
Ned
Sydney/Sidney
Kitto
Lowen

If you have any suggestions please help! At the moment neither of us has anything we LOVE.

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flowerpowers · 01/07/2014 15:07

Quentin
Reuben

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cairocruiser · 01/07/2014 15:10

Jago
Jacob
Austin
Aidan
Tudor
Warwick
Stanley
Euan
Rohan
Cillian
Patrick/Paddy
Quentin
Jonathan

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Rivercam · 01/07/2014 15:12

Hugo
Peter
Dominic
Sebastian
Clifford
Christopher
Stephen
Craig
David
William

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ThinkIveBeenHacked · 01/07/2014 15:13

Griffin nn Griff
Tristan

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Greenandcabbagelooking · 01/07/2014 15:13

Stephen
Isaac
Charlie
Connor
Cameron
Fraser

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TheTravellingLemon · 01/07/2014 15:17

Ethan
noah
milo
grayson
nathan
Austin
Evan

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rachel234 · 01/07/2014 15:21

Dominic
Clement
Zachary
Finnian
Elliot
also love the suggestion of Quentin (we have one Smile)

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KleineDracheKokosnuss · 01/07/2014 15:25

Ioan

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HKat · 01/07/2014 16:02

Seren

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Frikadellen · 01/07/2014 16:14

Conrad
Phoenix
Carlo

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ChickenFajitasAndNachos · 01/07/2014 16:16

Samuel

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HavantGuard · 01/07/2014 16:18

Wyatt
Colton
Tristan
Edwin
Fabian

Start with letters you'd rather not use

Brody
Landon

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Workinglate · 01/07/2014 16:24

Thanks everyone and sorry to be awkward but none of these is possible. There are a few that one of us would go for but not the other, e.g. Carlo, Isaac, Cameron. Some are also just too common around here, e.g. Noah, Phoenix, anything starting with 'Fin'.

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Workinglate · 01/07/2014 16:24

Brody and Landon sound very American to me.

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halfdoneharris · 01/07/2014 16:34

Seth
Flynn
Ethan

I know these start with the wrong letter but:
Rafe
Rory

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HavantGuard · 01/07/2014 16:38

I took all the names off a US list. Cooper and Gibson sound very American to me so I thought you might like some of them.

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CharlesRyder · 01/07/2014 16:45

Xavier (although how you pronounce it might put it over 2 syllables)
Christoph
Joseph
Jonah

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BlueStarsAtNight · 01/07/2014 16:46

How about:

Conrad
Caleb
Kieran
Quentin
Emlyn
Jenson
Arnold

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Szeli · 01/07/2014 16:49

Ezra is one I'm loving atm
Aldous
Angus

Some less traditional biblical names;

Ezekiel
Abel
Abner
Asher
Boaz
Tobiah

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CharlesRyder · 01/07/2014 16:50

I love Ezra too.

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gingysmummy · 01/07/2014 16:53

Andrew
milo
robert

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KnockMeDown · 01/07/2014 16:54

Daniel

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Workinglate · 01/07/2014 16:56

Still no, I'm afraid. :-(

I like Aldous but we can't have anything that ends with an 'uss' sound, we'd end up sounding like snakes with our surname.

Can't be anything overtly Biblical - i.e. it's OK if they are names that have passed into common English usage and don't bring the Bible to mind, but something like Ezekiel/Jonah would be out.

Love Tristan but it's a close family name.

I'd love Tudor but it's too unusual for DH.

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Misspilly88 · 01/07/2014 16:58

From your list I love Sidney and quinlan, Quinn is a great nn.

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Workinglate · 01/07/2014 16:58

Things like Robert and Daniel sound too common to me - I know they aren't these days, but I went to school with tons of Roberts, Daniels, Simons, Pauls, etc. I don't want a name that so many of my contemporaries have.

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