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boys names help!

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Workinglate · 26/03/2012 23:30

We are having loads of trouble thinking of boys names we both like. At the moment the most likely one is harry, but there's an element of making do... others we have considered are:

Archie
Atticus
Huckleberry
Fox

Is harry just too popular now? I don't want to land him with a name that five other kids in class have. But we are struggling to come up with any others!

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SilkStalkings · 02/04/2012 18:53

'Baxter, you are my little gentleman, I will take you to foggy London Town...' Will always be the dog in Anchorman to meGrin.

RavenVonChaos · 31/03/2012 23:41

Huckleberry - really?

Jonny
David
Patrick

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SilkStalkings · 31/03/2012 23:04

Has he read Catcher in The Rye? Our ds is called Kurt after DH's favourite author (Vonnegut), I read him while I was pg just to be sure and thankfully really liked his books!

MerryMarigold · 31/03/2012 13:48

Byron!

Gabriel

Xavier

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Workinglate · 31/03/2012 12:50

Can't use Lawrence I'm afraid. Books I love . . . very hard to list them all. I love lots of classics, also a big fan of children's literature, but I have been through lots of them to no avail. I am not mad struck on Darwin or Huxley, but at this point anything DH sounds vaguely positive about I am not discounting completely!

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twooter · 30/03/2012 18:56

Lawrence?

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 30/03/2012 17:51

Tell us some books you love so we can think of names! :)

Really dislike Huxley and Darwin though, sorry.

MerryMarigold · 30/03/2012 09:46

I know a baby Nelson. Also Beck, Herbie, Francis

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Workinglate · 30/03/2012 08:30

If it helps, other names I like that DH has shot down in flames refused are Phoenix, Jowan, Charlie, Gilbert, Reuben, Nathaniel, Orion, Omri, Wilfred.

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Workinglate · 30/03/2012 08:26

Thanks everyone! Sorry not to have replied sooner - had midwife appt dramas yesterday.

Jem's out because of family, Rowan is way too popular round here, DH doesn't want anything biblical, or anything that sounds too Welsh, Irish or Scottish (he feels that would be weird because it's not our ancestry), so no to things like Hamish, Gregor, Inigo, Asher.

I like Mallory but it does rather make me think of Malory Towers! I would love to have a name with connections to a book I love, but that is proving tough to get past DH too, e.g. Holden.

Janoschi, you are so right :)

DH came up with Darwin as one he would consider, and we have added Huxley to the list . . .

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twooter · 29/03/2012 07:41
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Janoschi · 29/03/2012 00:17

Personally, if there was ever a bloody good reason to give a kid an odd name, not having to buy off the shelf tat would be it!

Janoschi · 29/03/2012 00:16

If you have an attachment to To Kill A Mockingbird, how about:

Finch
Dill
Jem

Or if Huckleberry is too much, how about:

Sawyer
Mark
Finn

I suggested Mallory on another thread (the climbing Tenzing guys) - don't know if that's any good...? Just like the sound of it!

Spencer
Dorian
Raymond
Lloyd
Bryn

grimblesmother · 28/03/2012 23:04

Nobody ever suggests Julius

twooter · 28/03/2012 23:04

Like Archie, but it is quite popular. Still, at least you would be able to buy personalised off-the-shelf tat, which you wouldn't get with a rarer name

twooter · 28/03/2012 23:03

Hamish
Rory
Gregor?

SilkStalkings · 28/03/2012 23:00

Holden (as in Catcher in the Rye)

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 28/03/2012 19:56

Atticus is gorgeous.

Don't like Archie and Huckleberry and Fox are (imho) frankly bonkers.

How about:
Jem/Jeremy
Rowan
Inigo
Vincent
Kit/Christopher
Asher
Fabian

rachel1970 · 28/03/2012 11:37

I like Atticus the best. Huckleberry could work and you could even shorten to Harry.

strawberrypenguin · 28/03/2012 11:32

What about Henry then you could always use Harry as a nn

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Workinglate · 28/03/2012 11:30

Thanks Merry - I like Idris! Sasha is a girl's name to my ears though.

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MerryMarigold · 28/03/2012 11:27

I know an Idris. I think it's a brilliant name. How about Sasha?

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Workinglate · 28/03/2012 11:25

I love Tristan but can't use it sadly. Can't use Felix with our surname - asking for trouble! Arthur's too traditional for me and I find Hugo a bit posh-sounding, same with Gideon and Rupert. Paul - I am not keen.

Sorry, I know I am shooting all suggestions down. But this is why I posted - just having so much difficulty finding anything we both like!

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tammytoby · 28/03/2012 11:20

Love Atticus, Felix and Quentin.

Huckleberry is ok but would you shorten to Huck?

Harry/Archie very widely used already.

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