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So life is stressful right now. I'm heavily pregnant, will be moving house soon, have two kids at home on summer holidays and they're driving me nuts and now DH decides he doesn't like the names Jarvis or Kit. Plus it'll be 37 degrees on Tuesday.

Can you please name my third son? Pick just one name that you would think is absolutely perfect with his brother's names of Felix and Theodore.

Parameters:
- Nothing in the top ten (I know Theo and Felix are popular in the UK - not so here in Australia)
- looking for something quirky but familiar - nothing predictable like William or Sebastian
- Use Jarvis and Kit as your guide

Just one name. If we end up going with it, I'll send you a present all the way from Australia. I have 8 weeks until baby son #3 is born - please help!

Felix, Theodore and Arlo

Good luck!

Jackson
Mason
Ethan
Kinnon
Christian

Harvey
Pip
Todd

Argh, it's not going to be 37... it's going to be 43 degrees!!!! ARGH!

http://weather.smh.com.au/local.jsp

Evan

Oscar
Isaac

Sonny

George
Bo
Ryder

Jago
Milo
Silas
Jonah

Sasha
Max
Gabriel

Josh
Cyrus
Max
Axel

Inigo

Zack

Jude

Otto
Seth
Cosmo
Acer
Bruno
Rory

Good luck! I have 5 weeks to go and it was 39 degrees where I am the other day...

Rudi would be my suggestion.

But also loving Bruno and Axel which have already been mentioned!!

Henry

Oh and I also forgot how much I like Cooper...!?

LOVE schplappo's list.

Ivo
Jasper
Hector
Hamish
Abraham (Bram)
Ezekiel (Zeke)
Caspar
Cassius
Dexter
Solomon

Ambrose (also of Greek origin and I love it). Felix, Theodore and Ambrose (I've heard it shortened to Ambry, by the way, which is also nice).

Wilson
Beck

Also love Arlo as already mentioned.
Fraser
Ira

Soren

Clovis.

Felix, Theodore and...

Barnaby
Asher
Otis
Ike
Dashiell
Atticus
Levi
Hugo
Dexter
Jasper
Gene
Gus
Silas

Horatio

You still have a while, please don't panic. You have A LOT going on right now. Anyone would be stressed in yiur situation! Things will calm down once your DS's are back at school and you have more time to yourself.
Go with Kit, it's lovely and goes really well with your other DS's names (which I love). Your DH will come round once things have calmed down a bit.
Good luck.

Caleb
is my favourite slightly unusual boys name.

Finn
Nathaniel (Nate)
Luka

Spike
Laurie
Milo
Miles
Basil
Sacha
Saxon

Agree with ScambledSmegs - Nate is lovely and goes with Felix and Theodore.

Thought Felix, Theo & Kit were great actually

Felix, Theo & Spike
Felix, Theo & Soren
Felix, Theo & Magnus
Felix, Theo & Keir

Rex
Jude
Ezra
Francis

Rex or Caspian?

Or Woody (Edward?)

Ferdinand
Orlando
Columba
Clement
Wolfgang

Rufus.

Please. I didn't get to call either of my boys that and now it's too late.

I too think Kit is fab... DH being so difficult. I wish I could go into an induced coma right now until March, but you're right Ham, it will all pass. Bring on autumn

I quite like Rupert too.

Theodore, Felix and Cassius

Felix, Theo and Jed.

Perfect :-)

Kit goes. Every Felix I know has a brother called Jasper. Milo also goes.

Abel. Zeus. Sonny. Wesley. Maximus. Jett. Kerr. Blake . Blaze. Harley. Rocco. Vincent. Orlon. Maddox. Orion. Gunner. Pierce. Darrius.

You're right WineOhWhy - I know two Felix and Jasper brother sets.

Some great suggestions here Thanks.

Jet
Kane
Orion
Blade
Morton

Slate and kace also. Zane. Keane. Jagger. Paxton

Travis
Sebastian
Artie/Arthur
Caspar

Benedict

Wilbur
Earl
Herbie
Chester
Roscoe
Sylvester
Seth
Amos
Luther
Fletcher
Jonas
Emil
Gilbert
Asa
Eli

Felix, Theo and Hector

Felix, Theo and Hamish

You are going to shout/laugh at me, but I'm a huge Harry potter fan and Albus is a fab name.

Felix, Theo and Albus.

Hugo
Rowan
Abe (Abel)
Stanley

Felix, Theo and Nate.

Oh bum I opened the thread thinking Theodore! But you've already got there. I like James too.

Leander
Lucien
Reuben
Ephraim
Giles
Eldridge
Seymour
Raphael
Saul
Quincy
Percy
Lenny
Elmore

Orson
Griffin
Linus

Felix, Theodore and Max.
Felix, Theodore and Hugo.
Felix, Theodore and Jude.
Felix, Theodore and George.
Felix, Theodore and Rex.

Jago

Solomon (sol)
Seth

Tate
Cade
Grady
Flynn
Ivo
Nate
Oscar
Rudy
Seth

Keir or Owen.
My two top choices for my own son, but I was outvoted and went for Ben instead.

I have a theo and his brothers are

Oscar reuben

Dylan lucas and rudi arlo.

Felix was also on our list!

I prefer Nathaniel shortened to 'Nat'. Sounds cooler. Already mentioned but Arlo, Milo and Keir are also super cool and go well with your sons names. Also agree with Kit. Your husband may come around - my husband was never on board with my preferred name for our son, then when he was born decided he liked it and it suited him!
Good luck!

Patrick

Ira.

Otis.

Hal

Hayden
Innes
Crispin
Miles

Leon
Saul

Ethan

Rufus.

Austin

Rufus, otis, tate, and emmett were also on our lists.

Harald (nickname Hal)

Ambrose
Amos
Toby
Even
Evan
Noah
Rory
Pip

It's got to be Benedict, hasn't it? Felix means lucky or successful, Theodore means gift of God, and Benedict means blessed.
Other possibilities might be Lucius/Lucian (light) or Anand (joy - Hindi/Sanskrit) or Asher (lucky/blessed - Hebrew) or Casimir (peaceful leader - Slavic).

Ivor
Rufus
and another vote for Arlo!
(also would very much back you up on Kit!)

Zachary
Kester nn Kit
Bruno
Arthur
Gabriel nn Gabe
Gilbert nn Gil

Joel

Fabian

Rafael

Sholto

Serge

Xavier

also agree that Arlo is a wonderful name, which would go well with your other boys.

Quinn

Gus

archie

Also love arlo

Ned I think

I am due in 8 Weeks too

We've decided to go with Ruairi for a boy.

Alban

Also like previous suggestions of Gil short for Gilbert, and Nat short for Nathaniel.

Love Gus, Rex, Gil(bert), Dashiell and Sol(omon).

I'm on an MN drive pushing Lev today. What about Lysander?

Parker
Tobias
Noah
Isaac
Caleb
Dexter
Cole
Hunter
Zachary
Sebastian

Felix, Theodore and Jonas.

Lev. Wish I could have had this for ds2, dh wasn't up for it.

Roman, Reuben, Caleb

I like Milo and Seth, but they've been mentioned lots already.

My DC have friends called:

Oakley
Harrison
Lochlan
Hector
Tobias
Sebastian

Nathan

Xavier

I have a Kit!!! So, like me, you may also like:

Lysander
Woody
Rufus

Jesse

Love Nat, love Alban.

Love Jesse the most. Had two DDs!

I like Robert, shortened to Robb

Ellis
Jonah
Sullivan (Sully)
Drew
Cody
Baxter

I'm channeling 'John'!

Love Benedict (nn Ned). Nathaniel means 'gift from God" so the same as Theodore.

Help - Struan is a traditional name in my family "clan" but although I have two boys, I couldn't get my OH to even consider it

Dominic
Magnus

Laurence (Laurie)

Camden

Xander

Rupert,Tarquin or Crispin

or St John (pronounced Sinjin !!)

Hope these haven't been mentioned

Rory
Jago
Ivo
Tristram
Hugo

Blake
Blair
another for Rufus but I have an unusual pet with that name
I love Floyd DH not so keen
jareth
Everett
Flynn
and lachlan
these are from my list for current bump, Felix and Theodore are on it as well.

Hamish. Angus. Jude. Alban. Finn. Fergus. Aidan. Arthur.

Forgot Gabriel!

Robin.

Constantine
Horatio
Blase
Jared

Cole
Reuben
Lauchlan
Ruaridh
Hamish

the Old Testament is always worth a look!

Xavier

Angus
Zane

Harlan?
Torin?

Gabriel
Leander
Francis

Leander

Atticus

yeah, I. Know that is two names but I love them both

Ohh spooky cross post ......obviously it HAS to be Leander now.....

Rufus, definitely or Gabriel or Angus.

oscar
Aureus

Lysander or Oberon

Frank
Chet
Silas
Yuri
Stan
Herbie

(You have my vote for Kit too)

Rafe/Ralph
Cassius
Blake

Kier

Apologies if they've been mentioned but for what they're worth:

Quinn
Morten
Murdo (great Scottish name that just didn't work for our ds)

Shulto
Munroe
Ethan

I like kit!

Also Max been suggested which is cute
I have an Archie and love the name. He is a Sweet little blonde boy.

We liked really traditional names so I am not much help - considered things like charlie and Henry and james. Archie was quite radical for us!!!

You guys are AMAZING!! Thanks so much!

Am loving Benedict (need all-kinds-of-awesome nickname though, that isn't Ben or Ned as we have close friends with sons called Ben and Ned).

Lots of other names aren't suitable because the last name starts with L and ends in 'ie' so we can't have Archie, Ari, Artie, or any L names for example. I do love Lysander but DH doesn't.

I love Arlo but not sure about having a Theo and an Arlo. Same for Max and Felix - too similar.

I'm going to make a shortlist from these amazing contributions and put them to him. I'll still be gunning for Kit - it really is perfect and honours my father. Christopher will be in the middle if we don't use Christopher/Kit for first.

Thank you all!

Riley
Finlay

Blue
Casper
Hardy
Lester.
Xavier
Dp's suggestion is Farren

Cailan
Beau
Lochlan
Flynn
Nye
Tobias
Tate
Monty

I LOVE Kit too. See if you can talk him round!

Wait! It has to be Anselm.

Patrick

Simon

Noah
Rueben
Otto

Christopher/Kit would be lovely!
Re kickass nicknames for Benedict, the only Benedict I know is known as Ben and I'm not sure that any other diminutives are very convincing. Dix, perhaps?

Felix, Theodore and Quentin

Felix, Theodore and Reuben

Benedict
Alexander (Xander)
Kit is good
Arlo
Jago
Edward
Hugo
Harry
Charles

I do expect that quite a few of those will not appeal to you

Reuben Max and Louis are good too although I have just read your comment above

The only Benedict I know is Ben

Innes
Blair
Quinn
Skylar
Jude

Miles

I'd avoid similar sounding names (e.g. those ending in X or O) but think that

Felix, Theo and Arthur
Felix, Theo and Quinn
Felix, Theo and Rory

all sound great together. Good luck.

Jude

rowan?
julius?
feargal?
ralphael?
rafferty?
If i win could the prize be a hols in oz, very murky here today in UK!!!!!!
Good luck

Lucian? Lucien?

Oh my goodness, I love your names.

I recently tried to talk my sister into using Christopher/Kit as a nick, but she went with Richard when my nephew was born 2 weeks ago. I love Kit as a nick - to me it evokes a classic masculine man of action & brains.

Can you sneak it past dh by proposing Christopher?

Some other of my favorites:

Magnus
Marcus
Lucas
Lucius
Casimir
Aaron
Finn (got another nevvy named Finn)
Roger
Edgar
Edward

Oakes ;o)

Maxmilian and Quentin would fit in well too.

have a Theo and agree not another 'o' sound although love orlando and arlo... other options were-

Montague- (Monty)
Rowan
Lucian
like kit but not sure Christopher goes with the other two....

Kit IS lovely. I hope your DH agrees with you soon.

Dominic.

Call him Christian then we'll call him Kit for short.

Milo, Sid, Rex, Monty, Rufus, Rafe,

Lucas

Frankie
Ernie
Finlay
Malachi
Sonny

Felix, Theodore & Stanley
Or
Felix, Theodore & Sidney

Xander, from Alexander
Ian
Quinn (similar to Finn which I like but you do not want two F names, or do you?)

Hi, havnt read thread, sorry, but Im Australian and my suggestion for what its worth is.......Declan.

Linus
Aldous

Caleb
Gabriel
Raphael

Lancelog

After your further criteria, I like:

Gabe/Gabriel
Rafe
Hugh
Jonty
Joly/Jolyon

but I really like Kit, too!!!

Felix, Theo and .... Kristian (nn Kit!)
Felix, Theo and .... Amos (means 'carried'...St Christopher traditionally carried...vague link...lol)

Felix, Theo and Quentin/Quinn
Felix, Theo and Dominic

are lovely and go well together imo. Good luck.

Carson?

If nobody has said it then can I suggest Cormac?

Nickname could be 'Mac'. Which, as my seven year old would say, is well cool.

I know a Christopher, son of Christopher, who has been called Tiff all his life. It suits him :-)

jasper xx

Felix, Theo and Alistair. Normal but not too popular.
Good luck

Felix, Theo & Oscar
Felix, Theo & Ruaridh

Tristan
Edmund
Julian
Samson/Samuel
Heston
Guy
Andrew

Hallam (Hal for short)

Mason