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Help! It's a boy!

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aroha77 · 31/05/2017 21:17

I'm 33 weeks and have just found out it's a boy! Thought I was keeping an open mind but I'm so surprised!! And we don't have any boy's names!

Older sister is called Olive which is difficult to 'match' with!

Any ideas

(Everyone who hated Indigo Joan on my previous thread can be glad to know that I can't use it Grin)

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 31/05/2017 21:23

What type of boys names do you like.
Modern
Traditional
Unusual
Biblical

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BandeauSally · 31/05/2017 21:24

Popeye

Grin

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CaipirinhasAllRound · 31/05/2017 21:24

Patrick
Hugo
Chester
Dexter
Joel
Rory

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Popskipiekin · 31/05/2017 21:27

Popeye Grin

I think Olive matches plenty. Could have trad, modern, biblical, whacky ;) just trying a few out and Olive goes well with most things!

Olive and William
Olive and Jasper
Olive and Isaac
Olive and Zed
Olive and Innes

Not exactly recommending any of the above but I'm sure you don't need to worry too much about "matching"

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flumpybear · 31/05/2017 21:29

Guide please as to what you like

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PaperdollCartoon · 31/05/2017 21:29

Jago
Caspar
Felix
Harold
Hugo
Xavier
Indiana
Jasper
Ivan

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Spottyladybird · 31/05/2017 21:31

Olive goes with lots:
Jude
Dexter
Noah
Eli
Sebastian
Seth
Toby
Herbie
Arthur
Monty


Depends what you're going for...

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aroha77 · 31/05/2017 21:34

I think I like traditional but unusual...my fave girl options were Indigo and Merryn...

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ImGoingForATwix · 31/05/2017 21:35

My great aunt is an Olive. Her husband was Jim (James). Her brother is Thomas. Sisters, May and Francis. Not sure if that's at all helpful!

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17caterpillars1mouse · 31/05/2017 21:36

I love Olive it's on my list for another girl so some boys names I like might be helpful...

Jude or Judah
Barnaby
Everett
Rafe
Hamish
Percival
Oscar
Rupert
Jonah
Gabriel
Samson
Flynn
Caleb
Tobias
Rufus
Ivor
Wilbur
And i
Julian
Atticus
Jasper
Raphael
Dominic
Edgar
Theodore
Joshua
Entry
Angus
Ezekiel
Matthias
Rowan

Any you like?

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restingbf · 31/05/2017 21:43

Alexander
Tristan
Joshua
Paxton
Solomon
Louis
Samuel

I love Rory

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Argeles · 31/05/2017 21:46

If you like Indigo for a girl, perhaps you'd like the Spanish name 'Inigo' for your son?

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SuperBeagle · 31/05/2017 22:01

I think it needs to be something vintagey if you want it to "go" with Olive. Something like Arthur, Raymond, Reggie, Frederick, Sidney, Stanley...

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Aquamarine1029 · 31/05/2017 22:07

Olive and Hudson

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TestTubeTeen · 31/05/2017 22:14

Inigo!

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 31/05/2017 22:50

Bernard. Not unusual as such, but There's not many little Bernards running around now. Plus it's very traditional and vintage.

Alan See above

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WankersHacksandThieves · 31/05/2017 23:18

Barnaby
Sylvester
Austin
Jesse

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Buntysoven · 01/06/2017 00:16

I love Olive with Felix as suggested by a pp

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Rockaby · 01/06/2017 07:26

I would also go with vintage, so any of beagle's suggestions or:

Wilfred
Leonard
Edmund
Ernest

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NapQueen · 01/06/2017 07:28

Olive is on my list if we have an accident Grin

My boys list (of which Ive used one of these):
Lawrence
Travis
Rex
Sid
Elliott
Leo
Dexter

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Yika · 01/06/2017 07:28

Isambard
Bartholomew
John

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HeteronormativeHaybales · 01/06/2017 07:32

It needs to be two syllables*, I think. The one that hit me as really going well out of the suggestions above is Jasper. Leonard and Louis work well too. I don't think a biblical name really goes, as much as I love those sorts of names.

*With the caveat that you could make me vicariously happy by using Orlando - the boys' name I never got (as dh vetoed and dc3 was a girl anyway) but love and I think would go really well with Olive.

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MyDarlingWhatIfYouFly · 01/06/2017 07:37

Oliver Grin

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grufallosfriend · 01/06/2017 10:35

Olive and Quentin

Olive and Rufus

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Rockaby · 01/06/2017 12:01

Or how about Inigo? It's like Indigo which was your girl choice. Or ignore you wanted a colour, maybe Blue?

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