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Looking for inspiration - what is your ultimate favourite boys name(s)?

63 replies

RoseGarden123 · 20/02/2013 12:32

As title says really - what are your favourite boys names and if you can why?

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Rhubarbgarden · 22/02/2013 22:35

Gus
Edgar
Magnus
Hamish
Darius

MadBraLady · 22/02/2013 21:37

I've been thinking more about my list (I missed Douglas off, by the way). Some of them are names I love but would never really use. I like boys' names that are nicknameable (sp?) and that might rule out things like Atticus and Cyprian. But then they're both such great full-length names and I know of a fantastic Cyprian (he is, perhaps inevitably, an academic). I like names that can be both formal and grand-sounding, but also be shortened for the pub. And I apply exactly the same criteria for girls' names really.

itisimplicit · 22/02/2013 21:04

Alexander (nn. Lex)
Isaac (nn. Zac)
Nicholas
Noah

TenthMuse · 22/02/2013 18:28

Thanks DoTheStrand - good to hear that people's comments have been so positive. It isn't a name you tend to come across much - first heard of it when reading an article about Anthony Horowitz in which he mentioned his son Cassian, and immediately loved it!

SashaSashays · 22/02/2013 12:42

Jack
Jesse
Ralph (not Rafe)
Sid
Fraser
James
Charlie
Frankie
Zane
James
Mason

survivingwinter · 22/02/2013 12:36

Laurence/Laurie
Rufus
Edward
Alistair
Theo
Hugh/Hugo

SurreyWithAFringeOnTop · 22/02/2013 08:50

Rufus
George
Rupert
Henry
Hugo
Arthur
Hamish
Laurence

FriggFRIGGisPoorlySick · 22/02/2013 08:29

Arlo.

I don't know what on earth I'd do if I had another boy,I can't find another name I love as much,
despite having a very long list of names I like there isn't another I love.

ripsishere · 22/02/2013 01:06

Duncan
Gavin
Adrian
Eric.
Just like all of them.

scratchandsniff · 22/02/2013 00:54

Jake
Rufus
Oliver
Tom

cafecito · 22/02/2013 00:34

James
Nicolas/Nicholas
Henry
William

devonsmummy · 22/02/2013 00:23

Frazer
Asa
Grady
Colby

DoTheStrand · 22/02/2013 00:17

Bede
Nathaniel
Rory
Henry
Rudy
Ethan
James
Christian

TenthMuse - go on, be brave re Cassian I have a Cassian and I have only had positive comments about his name. None of our friends had ever heard it before but everyone seemed to genuinely like it when they heard it.

fabbadabbado · 21/02/2013 23:59

Also love Rowan, and Mack

EchoBitch · 21/02/2013 23:56

Ewan

KatoPotato · 21/02/2013 23:54

Robin.

serin · 21/02/2013 23:50

Wow! Didn't realise my DS's names were so popular

I also like

Edmund
Rollo
Paul (due a comeback)
Rocco

lulu2 · 21/02/2013 22:53

I like stan.

Thewhingingdefective · 21/02/2013 22:51

Hamish

Sashapineapple · 21/02/2013 22:40

Lars and Knox

katkoala · 21/02/2013 21:28

Isaac means laughter. ..that's what my ds will be called. ..due in 10 weeks

MiniTheMinx · 21/02/2013 21:25

Montague
Hugo
Cosimo
Edgar
Lucretius
Mungo

Wishfulmakeupping · 21/02/2013 21:13

Henry I adore it my oh hates it with a passion :(

sleepingsatellite · 21/02/2013 21:02

Rhodri

MadBraLady · 21/02/2013 21:02

Miles
Albert
Inigo
Aubrey
Wilfred
Laurence
Francis
Guy
Theophilus
Fergus
Atticus
Cyprian
Patrick/Pedroc/Padraig

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