Boy name needed surfer/unusual/nature

[Elderflowergirl]

Please help! My DH and I have very different ideas about names. I like old and unusual but he thinks they are all posh (!) and he wants a cool surfer type name. I think they sound too American (I am in UK). I would also like a name that had a meaning in nature somehow as both our names do.

I am realy struggling. At the moment his favourite is Travis, which is ok but I think a bit American. I like Dexter but he says that is a breed of cow! Also I think it is creeping up the charts a bit. Anyway, any suggestions?! Boys name. Thanks!

[BackInTheRealWorld]

Noah
Finn
Barney (short for barnacle...just to keep the sea theme going!)

[ozzia]

Haydon? Old English name but I think it's a cool name too!

Nathaniel but known as Nate

Max - I've only ever met really really cool max's

[DextersMistress]

Blake or Blaine?

[BikeRunSki]

Rowan
Raven
Eben (means stone)
Alder

[dementedma]

Ralph
Guy
Angus

[StealthPolarBear]

River

[StealthPolarBear]

Hunter

[Lolimax]

Croyde? I noticed in the news that he's the son of Mathew pinsett who helped to save the lad drowning in....Croyde!

[VivaLeBeaver]

Bodie

[SavoyCabbage]

Oakley
Seth
McCloud
Ocean
Austin

[IndomitabIe]

"Cool surfers" I've actual known:

Charlie
Harry
Ross
Mike
...

Actually, most of my friends surf. None have particularly "surfy" names. I've known kids called "Kai", "Ocean", and a lot of Brads, etc and they've not really been the rugged outdoorsy type their parents had so clearly hoped for.

By all means, call your child what you like. But trying to impose a personality/lifestyle on them from before birth won't work.

[BikeRunSki]

Bryn (Welsh for hill)
Colin (French for hill)
Everest!
Bay
Brook
Dale
Ash
Cliff
Glenn
Falcon
Peregrine
Terence (no idea if this originates in Terra/Earth, but trying to think of a male equivalent of Gaia)
Neptune
Thor
Odin
Loki???!!!
Peter (Aramaic, rock/stone)
Darwin

[IndomitabIe]

I've known some... er, difficult Bodies.

And Oakley? Well why not call your child Quiksilver, Vans, Element, Animal, Snugg, C-Skins or any other "surf" brand.

Oh, I never knew I could feel so strongly about names! I'm usually the "if you like it you go for it" person! Sorry!

Please not Croyde, or Braunton, or Westward Ho! Or Saunton, or Crooklets, or Fistral, or Llangennith.

[SavoyCabbage]

I'm not saying I like Oakley!

We've one at our school. And an Ocean and a McCloud. Loads of Austins (Aussie you see).

[IndomitabIe]

Savoy - can you give us a rough idea where you are?

[Elderflowergirl]

Thanks for all the suggestions! Some I have actually put forward before like Rowan and that was a 'no'! I quite like Oakley actually. I know it's a brand but it's not that common really. I think we'll stay clear of those place names as they are places we actually go so might get some strange looks if we were at Croyde calling for our son called Croyde

[IndomitabIe]

I think if I had an Oakley I'd have to work hard to stop myself saying "oh, like the tree from Everything's Rosie on CBeebies?" Just for the reaction, you know? (I'm a horrible person, I know, I'm working on it)

[IndomitabIe]

Oakley really is common in the culture for which you're naming the child. It's not particularly cool any more in surfing. More current in snow sports, I believe.

[Helenluvsrob]

The only genuine cool Australian surfer dude I know is called Byron. Not sure that helps or not!

[Marcipex]

Really cool surfers I actually know...Luke and Mark.

Nervous pale indoor types ....Sennen, Devon.

Extremely er,.....tricky little darling , Reef.

Not really helpful, sorry.

[BikeRunSki]

Kester
Evan
Angus

[EmpressKnowsWhereHerTowelIs]

I'd avoid Hunter, nobody needs those connotations right now.

[IndomitabIe]

Marci maybe we're in the same area - I know of a Reef of that description!