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Help me find a boys name...

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Juno77 · 17/01/2014 10:15

I am going to be really fussy, dismissive for ridiculous reasons and probably sound like an arse on this thread. But I am really stuck. We've had a girls name set for a few months and I am still happy with it. But the boys name.. we keep going off them.

I need help.

I don't want anything common, in both senses of the word.

Our list thus far has been:
Jackson
Deacon
Brodie
Caleb

And I liked them all at first, and now I hate them. I think they sound chavvy. I have a DS with a top 10 name and thankfully he goes by a lesser used NN anyway, but still, I don't want to repeat that. He's one of 4 in his year.

HELP!

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mum2bubble · 22/01/2014 20:31

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Juno77 · 22/01/2014 20:28

The girls name we have chosen is..

Isobel

Go for it Wink

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ToffeeJungle · 22/01/2014 20:24

What is the girls name out of interest?

WipsGlitter · 22/01/2014 20:22

I think they don't. Anything modern or trendy just screams chav for some reason.

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Juno77 · 22/01/2014 20:22

seasalt not keen..

Why is this so hard? We have had the girls name locked down for months now!

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seasaltbaby · 22/01/2014 20:14

Don't know if these fit your brief?
Byron
Benedict
Ezekiel (nn zeke)

Good luck OPSmile

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Juno77 · 22/01/2014 20:12

wips me too.

It's why I started this thread. Looking for non-Chavvy, and non classic names.

Maybe, this simply doesn't exist Grin

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themaltesefalcon · 22/01/2014 19:54

Abramovich

Luxury-Yacht

Penis-Beaker

WipsGlitter · 22/01/2014 19:48

I think all of the names you are looking at are a bit chavvy. Non chavvy names: Charlie, Harry,Teddy, Issac, Rory, Michael, David, Ian, Chris, Eammon, Robert, Andrew, Edward, Toby, Joe. So basically classic names.

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Juno77 · 22/01/2014 19:45

Indeed they may - and I am sorry to have offended anyone. I've seen my DS name on plenty of threads in the past and people comment that they don't like it. I couldn't be less offended!

Each to their own.

Again I apologise if I have hurt anyone's feelings by dismissing their children's names.

I like Devon!

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ToffeeJungle · 22/01/2014 19:40
  • Barnaby and Milo are two separate names!
Squeakybeaky · 22/01/2014 19:40

I haven't read through all the responses so don't know if its been suggested but what about Devon?

ToffeeJungle · 22/01/2014 19:39

I don't think OP is purposely being rude or offensive, she is just being honest and expressing her opinion.
However on a public forum full of mums whose DC's names may well have appeared on this thread and had a negative comment made against it, people are going to be offended - maybe just something OP needs to bear in mind...

Anyway, back to the point in hand:
Nate / Nathan / Nathaniel
Dominic
Anthony
Drew
Simeon
Zacharius
Jasper
Willem
Gregor
Nicholas
Geraint
Otis
Addison
Ethan
Barnaby Milo
Carlton

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Juno77 · 22/01/2014 19:36

Cohen is nice!

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Avalon · 22/01/2014 19:36

Zephaniah - in my family tree.

I also came across Zillah for a girl.

I love both of them. Perhaps it was best that I'd already named my kids by the time I found the names! Grin

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Juno77 · 22/01/2014 19:36

No one really says ned here. Schemie or Chavvy. Ned is more a Glasgow/west coast thing.

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Bankholidaybaby · 22/01/2014 19:16

One of the reasons I suggested Ferris was because it's also a surname.

How about:

Halcyon (nn Hal)
Beckett
Winston
Thurston
Brewis
Connor
Miles
Bastian
Tyler
Cohen
Acton
Currer
Austin
Dylan

I don't like all of these, but perhaps you'll see something in one of them that pleases you.

FeegleFion · 22/01/2014 19:13

No need to apologise to me soon I was very tickled when reading your example Grin

soontobeslendergirl · 22/01/2014 19:10

Ahh see where you are coming from. Ned is not an expression I hear a lot of really tbh. I was east coast rather than west and I am sort of in the middle now - maybe it's dying out?

HamletsSister · 22/01/2014 19:08

I wanted him to be Edmund but nickname Ned. Apparently this is a No No in these parts.

I have taught a Tiree, Blue, Sol, Durness, Laurie, lots of wonderful names - some I like, some not so much. But they become their namesSmile

soontobeslendergirl · 22/01/2014 19:08

Sorry feegle that illustrates the point really - I'm not in Glasgow btw.

What I am trying to say is that our own views are very much coloured by particular names we have heard in particular contexts, so what one person would consider schemey,/chavvy/neddy, someone else wouldn't as they are thinking of a nice shiny middle class child rather than the snotty wee horror that we are thinking of.

FeegleFion · 22/01/2014 19:03

*Stoorie - agree, it's Ned

FeegleFion · 22/01/2014 19:01

Shock my 15yr old DD is Chloe & have an 8yr old niece named Niamh ??

I grew up in a scheme in the East End of Glasgow, & some of my oldest friends live there still.

I have a decent life, home, financial situation etc. & worked bloody hard to get to where I am in my career, but...

...you can take the lassie oot of the scheme but never the scheme oot of the lassie, it seems Grin oh and that is absolutely fine by me.

StoorieHoose · 22/01/2014 19:00

If you are in Scotland surely the term is Ned not chav?

Wind up

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Juno77 · 22/01/2014 19:00

Well, that's true!

I guess things like Ptolemy and Quentin are unlikely to ever sound Chavvy.

It doesn't bother me per se, my DS has some lovely friends with names I wouldn't consider. I wouldn't judge a child by their name. I'm just mindful of when they get older.

I have seen people disregard applicants based on their names. Or make snide comments, or pre judge. I'm wary as this might happen if I choose badly.

One of my friends has a very 'chavvy' name and she couldn't be less so! It's not always fair or right to judge - I know that, I just equally know that not everyone knows that.

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