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Can’t find a name for my little boy?

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Saxfie2021 · 13/09/2025 15:33

Hello,

so I’m pregnant, 7 months and really really struggling to find a name. I have a boy already, and his name is as easy peasy for me to choose - I knew straight away, even before I was pregnant.

since finding out I’m having another boy, I’ve been struggling to think of a name. I have options…. But just don’t love any of them. I feel really guilty about it, feel bad that I can’t think of a name for him, can’t connect with him on that level? Maybe I’m over thinking it but I truly feel like a crappy mum, I should “know” his name.

My husband like Huxley… I thought it was okay, and would’ve happily have gone with it for him but his cousin has now called their baby Huxley. So that’s that. Won’t use it.

we both like Rudy, but i don’t LOVE it, it’s okay but doesn’t feel like that’s his name.

we like cassian, again, doesn’t move me to tears but it’s fine 🤣

these are the other options.

Oswin
Jago
Magnus
Neo
Roux
Marcel
Seb

Think Roux is too close to the making of a sauce and also he’ll be questioned on how to spell it.

love Magnus, always have, he’d be called Maggie? I don’t know. People love a nickname.

neo.. also like it but will people think I’ve named him after Neyo - the singer.

anyway, it’s a big deal naming a baby. I want something easy to say and spell, not tooo common.

My son is: Saxon
I love it so much, just looking for something to go with it.

help and please be nice….

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JMSA · 14/09/2025 03:36

Some of these names 🫣
We must be relatively conservative here in Scotland 😬
If I’d had a son, he would have been James 😁

usedtobeprettybutImalrightnow · 14/09/2025 02:39

Emmett
Silas
Augustus (Gus, for everyday)
Rohan
Evander
Kalel(okay maybe not but it’s a cool idea)
Evren (Turkish for ‘universe’)

Of your list, Oswin is a banger. Cassius is also solid.

I want to know the female baby name 😂

Bones101 · 14/09/2025 01:28

Why would new babies name have to match older brother 🤣🤣 bizzare.

Elliot or Elijah

Bones101 · 14/09/2025 01:28

Why would new babies name have to match older brother 🤣🤣 bizzare.

Elliot or Elijah

Shinyhappypeople43 · 14/09/2025 01:26

Jaxxon

MiddleAgeRageMonster · 14/09/2025 01:16

Saracen.

Thunderpants88 · 14/09/2025 01:09

Silus

ToWhitToWhoo · 14/09/2025 01:05

Of your suggested names, I really like Magnus,

ToWhitToWhoo · 14/09/2025 01:03

Not Norman, I think, with a brother called Saxon; that could make them sound like enemies. Perhaps Alfred after the great Anglo-Saxon king? Or Arthur- more legend than reality, but certainly a great hero and role model.

Laertease · 14/09/2025 01:03

I absolutely adore the name Magnus. I know one, usually called Mag.

Jago and Asa are great.

I know one very cool little kid in New York called Cassius.

ToWhitToWhoo · 14/09/2025 00:58

Jackiepumpkinhead · 13/09/2025 15:43

Brian
Keith
Gordon
Norman
Rodney

Nice names- but a bit too 1950s for a child nowadays IMO. Maybe he'll use one or two of those names for his own children, the way names come back.

Bluebay · 14/09/2025 00:55

If you have a son called Saxon it seems logical to me to call the new baby Norman.
Or maybe Athelstan, who was the Anglo-Saxon king who became the first king of England.

SnowFrogJelly · 14/09/2025 00:50

Anglo

mathanxiety · 14/09/2025 00:48

Saxfie2021 · 13/09/2025 21:07

What about Mika?

I like Mika, originally liked it for a girl but I do like a masculine name for girl….

(and if ya hate that you’ll hate the name we had if this baby was female 🤣)

anyway, MIKA?

I prefer that spelling to Micha -

Micah is the usual (biblical) spelling. It's usually pronounced My-kah, and the Micah spelling makes that more obvious.

It's a male name - Micah was a prophet.

mathanxiety · 14/09/2025 00:44

Saxon and...

Jasper
Dexter
Digby
Rufus
Roland
Colby
Holden

UnNiddeRides · 14/09/2025 00:34

Knut? Ethelred?

TheBirdintheCave · 13/09/2025 23:58

Saxfie2021 · 13/09/2025 21:07

What about Mika?

I like Mika, originally liked it for a girl but I do like a masculine name for girl….

(and if ya hate that you’ll hate the name we had if this baby was female 🤣)

anyway, MIKA?

I prefer that spelling to Micha -

I’d read that as ‘mee-ka’ (like the singer) I’m afraid!

Cel77 · 13/09/2025 22:03

Marcel is lovely. Marcus is one of my personal favourites instead of Magnus?

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KTheGrey · 13/09/2025 21:43

I am liking Anhalt. I don’t know why, just sounds kind of strong and definite.

Hiptothisjive · 13/09/2025 21:36

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Take a look in the mirror and stop pointing fingers I haven’t been unkind but factual. You have been accusatory, unkind and rude just because you didn’t like my opinion. In fact you have been quite cutting and personal to anyone who doesn’t agree that the name Saxon is an amazing one. To me is isn’t. That’s fine. It’s an opinion. It isn’t right or wrong but doesnt warrant your passive aggressive behaviour. I don’t wish anything on a four year old and said when he studies angle Saxons which he clearly won’t do at four.

And the irony of speaking about the world being unkind and then writing what you did. You aren’t the authority.

Your comment was uncalled for and nasty. I am perfectly lovely and my children have great names. You do you.

VickyEadieofThigh · 13/09/2025 21:34

pinkstripeycat · 13/09/2025 20:50

😂 These are the names of my father in law and his brothers who are all in their 80s. You missed Ron and Pete

Absolutely awful names for today

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Ah - I'm in my late 60s and all the kids called Elsie, Ruby, Stanley, Ernie, etc - they were names from my grandparents' generation.

Names come and go and someone has to be the one to bring back what sounds to some like an old-fashioned name!

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Hiptothisjive · 13/09/2025 21:19

Saxfie2021 · 13/09/2025 19:55

we call him Saxon normally - we don’t usually shorten it, I think it’s a very strong name for a man and I feel it will grow with him.

we are now swaying towards Cassius. :)

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Each to their own - only he can be the judge of that. We agree to disagree. When that kid learns about Angke Saxons the teasing may increase ….

mac111 · 13/09/2025 21:14

If you like Roux, how about Rupert, nn Roo?
Or, Archer? I feel like that has Saxon vibes?