A middle name to signify Europe (before we leave...)

[FromHackneyWithLove]

Call me a sentimental old fool/a remoaner/snowflake/whatever but DH and I are quite conscious that our son, due in Jan, could be born in quite possibly the last full year that we are EU members. I’d quite like to find a middle name that gives a farewell nod to Europe somehow (but isn’t too overboard like ‘Erasmus’ or ‘Europe’!). Had a look through the founding fathers for ideas but given we are both British we’d be looking at Winston Churchill - erm, not really doing it for me.

His first name is going to be Rudy and his big sister is called Maya. Surname starts with a T.

Any ideas, oh wise ones?

[preemiestruggles]

Euan?

[sinceyouask]

Minos? "In Greek mythology Europa was a Phoenician princess who was abducted and taken to Crete by Zeus in the guise of a bull. She became the first queen of Crete, and later fathered Minos by Zeus. "

[n0ne]

Eugene
Eustace

[MikeUniformMike]

Paris. Roman. ...
Maastricht.
Solidarity.
Schengen.

[FartnissEverbeans]

In the off chance DS turns out to be DD, Unity could be quite a good one!

Amicus ('friend' in Latin)
Levi ('joined' in Hebrew)
Euros/Eurus is an actual name
Rasmus is popular one Scandinavia
Hugo for Victor Hugo (

[Frogletmamma]

Roman as in Treaty of Rome

[TroysMammy]

Euros is a male Welsh name.

[FartnissEverbeans]

Pressed post a bit too soon!

Keynes for John Maynard Keynes
Benedict for Benedict of Nursia
Lisbon for the Lisbon treaty (Rudy Lisbon... I kind of like this one)
Charlemagne!

[FartnissEverbeans]

Euros is a Greek god name too apparently

[scurryfunge]

Yuvam is an Indian name meaning Power in Unity.

[EmilyAlice]

I remember when we went into the Common Market there was a competition to name the first baby. I think it was something like Michelle that won, but my favourite was Eurosprog. 😊

[PuzzledOfPenzance]

Ken/Kenneth (tribute to Ken Clarke)

On a lighter note - Jean Claude, Michel or Donald (but could be confused with Trump so maybe best avoided)

[MikeUniformMike]

The band Europe of Final Countdown had a Joey Tempest.
Tempest is quite a cool name.
I like Rudy.

[MikeUniformMike]

Rudy Remain Withlove

[HeteronormativeHaybales]

I think you should do Erasmus.

[LineyRunner]

Paulie Walnuts

[RestingGrinchFace]

Claude after Claude Junker?

[FromHackneyWithLove]

Thank you everyone!! I shall relay these to DH... maybe some of your ideas about names meaning ‘unity’ etc might be the way to go?

[buttercup54321]

Brexit? LOL

[nutnerk]

What about Theresa???

[annandale]

Brandt - this would be my choice - resonant and pretty cool in itself
Adenauer, or Konrad
Charlie (as in Checkpoint)
Gilon - Hebrew name meaning circle, as in circle of stars (trying a bit too hard)
Harold or Edward

[LineyRunner]

Brandenburg
Atlas

Or something Roman? To recall the unity of the Pax Romana which encompassed much of Europe and foreshadowed the incredible political and cultural unities yet to come? Pax or Julian?

[Costacoffeeplease]

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