Names ending with 'er' or 'a'

[glastochick]

I know I'm getting ahead of myself here as we're not pregnant yet, but I, DH, and DS all have names ending in er and a.

We know what we'd call a girl, but are stuck on boys names and would like to have some ideas.

Our names have have two syllables but that's not really important.

I didn't even notice what we'd done until DS was a few months old and his name ends the same way ours does, and think it would be kind of nice to keep that theme.

Any ideas?

[chrisrobin]

Alexander
Lysander
Jonah
Micah
(same sound but not spelling)

[BlueChampagne]

Noah

[Dexifehatz]

Dexter?

[tammytoby]

Sasha
Mischa

[glastochick]

I love Noah, but I know DH would say no to it because he doesn't like religious names (rules a lot out which is a pain)

DS's name is Sander, so Alexander and Lysander would also be out. Quite like Sasha. Not too feminine though?

[MelinaM]

Alaister
Archer
Baxter
Casper
Chandler
Chester
Christopher
Fletcher
Jagger
Jasper
Javier
Kaiser
Latimer
Lorimer
Miller
Oliver
Parker
Roger
Rossiter
Sylvester
Spencer
Thatcher
Whittaker
Wilber
Winter
Xander
Xavier
Ryder

[meditrina]

Sasha/Sascha are definitely boys names across mainland Europe - they are both transliterations from Cyrillic of the traditional Slavic nn for Aleksandr.

Some others: Christopher, Peter, Uther, Arthur, Hector, Bela, Joshua, Micah, Ezra, Jedidiah, Dara, Viktor, Gregor?

[glastochick]

Fabulous list MelinaM

Oooh, Sasha would also fit with the reasoning behind DS' name, even though it would mean the same.

But I also like Uther

Some great ideas here

[MelinaM]

I aim to please

Sasha is lovely!

[margerykemp]

Dieter
Asher
Luther
Baxter
Caster
Lester
Ivor
Ryder
Hunter
Tanner
Walter

[Offspring]

Sasha is feminine to me, but only because DD is Sasha :). Either way I love it and also think it is a nice name for a boy. Although for some reason prefer the Sacha spelling for a boy.

As far as I know though (feel free to correct me!), Sander is a variant of Alexander - as is Sasha. Would it bother you that they come from the same name?

[annasophia]

In Germany the name Sascha is only allowed for a boy.

I think the French version is Sacha (as they pronounce the 'ch' as 'sh' like in le chat) and the English Sasha.