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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….

OP posts:
Crimblecrumble1990 · 13/09/2025 19:35

Buddingbudde · 13/09/2025 19:28

Dying to know where you live cause my mind is blown by these name suggestions!

Haha, a very normal town in Buckinghamshire!

PistachioTiramisu · 13/09/2025 19:31

John?
Alfred
Edwin
Christopher
Michael
Richard
Geoffrey
Lewis
Leo

Hiptothisjive · 13/09/2025 19:28

Saxfie2021 · 13/09/2025 18:07

Honestly, we drove through a village called “saxmundham” and I thought “Sax” that’s cool, and then that led to Saxon….

and that was it, my partner liked it and if we ever had a boy he was Saxon. We fell pregnant a couple of months after that moment :)

Funny how people are different. When I think SaxI think saxophone or sex said funny.

More likely to have though the first as that is rhe actual short form of that word.

OP please consider your child and a life of teasing. Ridicule, constant spelling and putting rhe name on a cv.

Whats cute for a baby isn’t cute for life.

Buddingbudde · 13/09/2025 19:28

Crimblecrumble1990 · 13/09/2025 19:20

Rory? I like your list. No one would blink an eyelid at these names at my kiddies school, not the parents or their peers.

Dying to know where you live cause my mind is blown by these name suggestions!

ElixirOfLife · 13/09/2025 19:26

Drummond

Hiptothisjive · 13/09/2025 19:21

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….

Yeah I don’t like any of these names except maybe the last two.

Roux is either a sauce or reddish-brown in French.

Neo - reminds me of the main character in the matrix.

It’s fine to be unusual but there is normally a reason names are unusual - they aren’t well liked. You may like them but your kid may not.Also consider a lifetime of teasing, constant spelling and putting that name on a cv.

Keep thinking.

Crimblecrumble1990 · 13/09/2025 19:20

Rory? I like your list. No one would blink an eyelid at these names at my kiddies school, not the parents or their peers.

timetochangethering · 13/09/2025 19:09

Fergus
Edwin
Ewan or Euan
Marcus
Pasco
Jude
Oscar

and ChatGPT has suggested;
Leif
Cassian
Otto
Ansel
Soren
Lucien
Dashiell
Evander
Ivo
Blaise

Of yours;
Jago is cornish I think (and like it)

Neo is way to "Matrix" and a definite no
Definitely not Roux

Crazyubermum · 13/09/2025 19:08

Jago is unique
how about Jude

GetTheGoodLookingGuy · 13/09/2025 19:06

If you like Reuben and the sound of Roux, why not name him Reuben and call him Reu/Roo for short?

GameofPhones · 13/09/2025 19:03

You could call him Ru if his full name is Rupert.

Greenmoonshining · 13/09/2025 18:55

From your list, Jago is my absolute winner

Evaka · 13/09/2025 18:52

Love love love Jago

Greenmoonshining · 13/09/2025 18:51

I really like x names. I have a Dexter and Hendrix was a back up. Ignore any of the negative comments. Less traditional names are not unusual now so I don’t know why anyone thinks they would be laughed at at school etc. Those posters probably need to focus more on bringing up children that don’t bully rather than criticising others name choices on the internet.

BunnyRuddington · 13/09/2025 18:49

You don’t have to be certain on a name and you’re not failing if you haven’t got a name at 7 months.

Our DC2 was named after I’d given birth and DH was holding her and it suits her very well.

The names you’ve mentioned so far are all lovely names Smile

meeleymanatee · 13/09/2025 18:45

TheBirdintheCave · 13/09/2025 17:35

Jago is a legitimate Cornish name.

Jago very popular in my area! I really like it

Arlo and Saxon
Jake and Saxon
Jasper and Saxon

ArchieStar · 13/09/2025 18:43

Phoenix

BlueSlate · 13/09/2025 18:40

I like Rudy.

You can sing A Message to Rudy to him too. Keep him on the straight and narrow 😉

CoheedandCambria · 13/09/2025 18:37

They're not going to be laughed at at school for having a less common name these days as lots of people go for less common names!

Is Cassian an Andor reference. I also like it for that reason and there is an actor whose real name is Cassian in another great sci-fi show I like.

I have to say I don't really like Magnus it makes me think of Magnus Magnuson.

I like Tamlin - has old English kind of vibes I think.
Have always liked Rowan

1543click · 13/09/2025 18:36

Troy.

sciaticafanatica · 13/09/2025 18:36

Archer
Beau
cy
Dane
elias
fabian
gray
huw
kitt
lucias
rudy

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 13/09/2025 18:30

Magnus, nn Gus?

HumerousHumous · 13/09/2025 18:29

There’s been some lovely name suggestions but I’d probably avoid anything with the same vowel sound, so the ‘a’ in Magnus, Casper, Xavier etc. may have both your DS’s running when you shout to them that it’s dinner time. Roman and Saxon is lovely but may raise a few chuckles, still a fab couple of names though. Think Huxley is a dog’s name tbh.

Rudy is fabulous….as is Seb but give him Sebastian on BC.

WheresMyFont · 13/09/2025 18:29

Very much like Jesse. And goes well with Saxon.

PuddleintheOcean · 13/09/2025 18:27

Really like Magnus.

Tudor?
Quinn?