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Boys name with a historical feel

34 replies

BabyAcorn · 04/11/2011 18:16

Ok ladies 37 weeks and we cant decide!

Have girls name ready to rock, but boys....

We would like something that either:

Has some sort of meaning to our lives
Maybe some one who has done something great in the world
History/Greek maybe something with a bit of omph!

We got engaged at a lovely Restaurant called "Edwins" At first I wasn't sure, but now kinda like it? I would probably call him Eddy, but nice to think when he's older there is a grown up name there if he wishes to use it.

Saw Sarah Beanies little one called Raffety - quite like that?

I also like:
Hugo, Monty,Archie but Hubbie not sure.

Any thoughts ladies??

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Bigglewinkle · 09/11/2011 21:02

I knew an Athelstan at school (shortened to Stan) and he was lovely, good-looking and popular. Not that good at maths, though (used to copy me!)

birdofthenorth · 09/11/2011 14:48

The Edwin story is lovely. Ed, Eddie, Edwin all great names

telsa · 09/11/2011 12:32

Hereward

PercyFilth · 09/11/2011 12:11

Walter. Plenty of positive examples to outweigh the Beano.

NormanTheForeman · 09/11/2011 11:19

Oooh yes, Athelstan is a great name!

Or how about Horatio? Or Nelson?

Towndon · 09/11/2011 11:15

I think Edwin sounds much stronger than Edgar. It ends with "win" :) Edgar sounds a bit eggy.

Prunella79 · 09/11/2011 11:03

Edgar's great, edwin seems quite slight in comparison.
beware Monty will be associated negatively with Withnail and I
love Rafferty and Dunstan

AberdeenAngusina · 08/11/2011 22:27

Alexander Edwin Lastname.

BabyAcorn · 07/11/2011 15:04

Ladies you have excelled yourselves! I am copying and pasting to hubby as we speak! Thank you ... Will let you know our top names when Boss gets home :)

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sonniebonnie · 06/11/2011 22:18

Quentin

Agree that Archie is very popular round here.

wildstrawberryplace · 06/11/2011 18:44

Leofric!

DilysPrice · 06/11/2011 18:42

Athelstan, definitely Athelstan.

Mollydoggerson · 05/11/2011 22:52

Peter, there are no baby Peters

AgathaTrunchbull · 05/11/2011 20:55

There are some fab names from Classical history/mythology, but it depends what you think you could get away with on a daily basis (unless, of course, you want to stick with Alexander or Marcus):

Themistocles (founder of the Athenian navy)
Demosthenes (Athenian statesman and orator who stood up to Alexander the Great's father)
Thucydides (Athenian general and historian)
Hector (crown prince of Troy in the Iliad)
Astyanax (Hector's son... although he does come to a sticky end)
Neoptolemus (Achilles' son)
Cato (two Roman statesmen, both considered awe-inspiring republicans, but there's the Clouseau problem, I suppose)
Cicero (very famous Roman politician and writer - would be cool to revive his name as a first name)

mathanxiety · 05/11/2011 20:09

Instead of Rafferty (which always reminds me of 'seven old ladies were locked in the lavatory') how about Raftery? Anthony Raftery (Antoin O Raifteiri) was an Irish poet, 'the last of the wandering bards', and a major voice in 18th and early 19th century Irish poetry.

Dunstan, early English saint
Roland
Theodore
Justin
Franklin
Lincoln
Truman
Marc
Anthony
Julius
Augustine
Solomon
Abraham
Winston
Clement
Aneurin
Alaric
Loic
Wallace (William Wallace)
Isambard
Balthazar

tangledweb · 05/11/2011 11:08

Edmund?

Alec, Hugo and Hector are also strong names.

LadyMontdore · 05/11/2011 10:56

I like Edgar more than Edwin (a bit 'stronger') and also Edwy (but I think the King Edwy may have met a sticky end).

Aethelwuf

I know of several Hugos, Monties and lots of Archies - but they are nice names.

Towndon · 05/11/2011 10:50

Edwin is nice :)

FairyArmadillo · 05/11/2011 10:19

I like the idea of Edwin with its special meaning.

OriginalPoster · 05/11/2011 09:30

Lots of names on here

MigratingCoconuts · 05/11/2011 09:29

Arthur

Becaroooo · 05/11/2011 09:27

Diogenes
Androcles
Agrippa
Hercules
Julius
Octavius
Augustus
Justinian
Marcus
Antonius
Polydorus

OriginalPoster · 05/11/2011 09:27

William
William
Henry
Stephen
Henry
Richard
John

Oops, have been watching too much Horrible Histories..

gofrotoes · 05/11/2011 09:20

Dickon - or and purely because to the Beeny - Diccon.

Montsti · 05/11/2011 08:37

Atticus?