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A sibling for Byron?

218 replies

DiscoBiscuits · 11/09/2013 23:05

It took us a ridiculous amount of time to agree on Byron's name. DH has....eclectic taste name wise. So now number 2 is cooking and I am flummoxed.
So far we have:
Atticus (Byron was very nearly called this but I've gone off it a bit)
Caspian - we both like but don't love this.
Tiberius - DH favourite.
Aegeaus - Dh's other suggestion.

Girl wise we have only 1 name we can agree on:
Ariadne.

And that's it, we're at a veto impasse.
Help please?

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BlueBowTie · 23/09/2013 00:01

Please George or Gordon!

FloraDance · 21/09/2013 20:15

I like zipporah, jethro and giacomo x

hgriff80 · 21/09/2013 19:04

we are also struggling with our second - the first time we had no girls names at all and only Maxwell for a boy so was very pleased to have a boy!! now we have one girls name that we agree on but i don't love? i loved tallulah bit that was veto!!! now boys were Hugo and Oscar but now going off both??

mathanxiety · 21/09/2013 03:46

Sigmund
Casimir
Fabian
Kiril/Cyril
Basil

Aphra
Theodosia
Athanasia
Eudora
Ismene
Philomena
Roxane
Xenia
Zenobia
Ianthe

LeMousquetaireAnonyme · 20/09/2013 13:09

Amadeus and Artemis

twentyfourcarat · 20/09/2013 12:56

Names that might go with Byron... I do love Caspian and Ariadne

  • Brown
  • Cassius
  • Bartholomew (Bart / Barty)
  • Duncan
  • Malcolm
  • Augustus
  • Blake
  • Percy
  • Julius
  • Rabby
  • Clarence
  • Cesario
  • Angus
  • Florence
  • Florentine
  • Aphrodite
  • Vespasia
  • Fleur
  • Viola
  • Cressida
  • Regan
  • Adriana
  • Aliena
honeybeeridiculous · 20/09/2013 10:11

Brian? Wink
I like Hadrian or Roman, Caspien is good

ChocolateBiscuitCake · 19/09/2013 21:09

Burger?

AlansCatalanCat · 19/09/2013 18:12

Isn't Cadnam a place in the New Forest?

jalapeno · 19/09/2013 17:56

I once knew a lady with a son called Byron, I think his brother may have been Cadnam.

KatoPotato · 19/09/2013 17:42

...or a ride at Alton Towers...

MerryMarigold · 19/09/2013 12:04

Nemesis may refer to:

  • Nemesis (mythology), in Greek mythology, a spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris
  • Archenemy, the principal enemy of a character in a work of fiction

I'd say, more commonly known to refer to an arch enemy. But if you'd like your kid to have that association, fine by me.

AlansCatalanCat · 19/09/2013 11:22

Aylmer, Aymer, Aymeric

Armorel

Pasiphae · 19/09/2013 10:37

Love your style!
how about:
Absolom, Antioch, Melchior, Samson, Isambard, Gilgamesh, Volodia, Vadim, Zephyr, Matthias, Edgar, Ptolomy, Gilbert, Elphias, Anatole, Aristid, Nazaire, Ferdinand, Sigisbert?

Thisbe, Thirza, Mirza, Niobe, Nefele, Nimue, Nausicaa, Artemisia/Artemis/e, Athenaide, Atalanta, Melisand/Melisandre, Melusine, Sunhilda, Cleophee, Cleone, Shirley, Cerise, Magenta?

Oriunda · 19/09/2013 06:59

Nemesis was the Greek goddess or spirit of divine retribution, also known as Fate. Hardly on a par with clamydia I think! I like my Greek classics.

Eastpoint · 19/09/2013 06:50

Marina
Zara
Imogen

Cassius

I keep thinking of Byron Lee & the Dragonaires, a fantastic soca band & smiling when I think of the name Byron.

Minifingers · 19/09/2013 06:35

Byron is a nice name. Very popular in the West Indian community round here.

Might I respectfully suggest an UNUSUAL name? Sheila. Or Derek? You won't find one of those under 30.

Or Anne, Margaret, Roger, Geoffrey.

oohdaddypig · 19/09/2013 06:28

It's heebee - hadn't made the heebie jeebie connection before now...

Isn't anastasia ruined after a certain dreadful fifty shades of shite book or can we all move on from that?

Notafoodbabyanymore · 19/09/2013 06:22

Sorry for my ignorance, but how do you pronounce Hebe? All I think of is heebie jeebies, but maybe that's because I'm pronouncing it wrong...

Anastasia for a girl? Covers the Russian thing and lots of potential for nicknames when she's older.

oohdaddypig · 19/09/2013 06:07

Sorry OP, having read the remainder of the thread I think it is just that we are world's apart and I was rude. Would love to know where you live...

In which case FWIW Hugo and Hebe go well with Byron.

oohdaddypig · 19/09/2013 05:57

I think I live on a different planet

If I heard a mum yelling "Byron and Ariadne'", come here now" in the park I'd PMSL. Sorry OP.

But I suspect we are in different social circles.

Jazlyn
Shakayla
Demi-Leigh

Anri · 19/09/2013 05:42

Caius
Tybalt
Rufus
Seneca
Tristram
Augustin

Tacita
Ibis
Evadne
Lark
Idonea
Vera

mathanxiety · 19/09/2013 02:15

I wanted to call my all black kitten Nemesis when she was at the height of her 'biting and scratching the ankles' period.

One of my grandfather's brothers had the mn Michaelangelo. The family was not at all Italian.

How about:
Inessa
Nadezhda
Ninel
for a girl.
(Russian theme)

Or:
Brunhilde
Wilhelmina
Medb
Boadicea/
Boudica
Elfrieda
(Norse/Germanic/Irish/Olde saga names)

MerryMarigold · 18/09/2013 22:58

But Nemesis is in common speak as something not nice. It's not a bizarre association that most people wouldn't know. It's like saying Chlamydia is a nice name (which is it is really, but you just wouldn't would you?).

Oriunda · 18/09/2013 22:56

Because I like the name, why else?! I'm well aware of who Circe was, but I like the name. DH would have vetoed it of course, doesn't mean I can't dream .....

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