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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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Theonlyoneiknow · 20/01/2014 11:14

How about getting a map and looking at place names?

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Juno77 · 20/01/2014 10:25

Oran is lovely, but would get Oran Mor all the time..

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Juno77 · 20/01/2014 10:25

The only one I like there is Clayton.

Dwight. Jesus.

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misshoohaa · 20/01/2014 07:54

Jordan
Dwight

I think you should have a look at Australian or American name registers. Your preference seems to be along those lines. Good luck!

misshoohaa · 20/01/2014 07:44

Bailey
Harmon
Talon
Jerome

Bankholidaybaby · 20/01/2014 00:19

Robin
Robinson
Grayson
Marvin
Lewis
Laurence

AnAdventureInCakeAndWine · 19/01/2014 23:53

Taking "surnamey" as a kicking-off point...

Abney
Alden
Ansel
Ayton
Brewster
Calvin
Clayton
Colton
Curtis
Edison
Fisher
Foster
Griffin
Hardy
Jarvis
Miller
Pierson
Sutton
Warwick
Wilson

yellowsnownoteatwillyou · 19/01/2014 23:46

You seem to have a similar taste in names to when I was choosing ds's name you can have my shortlist but not his name incase you like it. Wink

Flynn
Dexter
Elias
Troy
Asher
Everett
Warwick
Jarreth
Blair
Blake
Jasper
felix
Luther

Short list ha!

Dh hated them all, and didn't like ds's name I had picked even before I was pregnant until 2 weeks before he was born.

Dunwhingin · 19/01/2014 23:40

Oran
I love this name, I know two boys who are just lovely

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Juno77 · 19/01/2014 23:36

Oh god I don't like anything..

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IdaArnold · 19/01/2014 23:21

Ashton
Cody
Reuben
Seth

Theonlyoneiknow · 19/01/2014 23:18

Casper?

I know a lovely one

Writerwannabe83 · 19/01/2014 23:14

As a surnamey name me and DH liked Harrison.

Theonlyoneiknow · 19/01/2014 23:13

Ok, so if you have looked at every name registered I'm stuck! Smile

I found girls names really easy, boys names were very very hard!

I used to watch the television credits for ideas

IdaArnold · 19/01/2014 23:12

Ayrton?
Strachan?
Bruin?

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Juno77 · 19/01/2014 23:09

theonlyone yep. The whole thing. And the 2013 one as well.

There's some crackers on there.

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sausageandorangepickle · 19/01/2014 22:59

www.firstnamesmithblog.com

not my first choice of names, but he is very cute

Theonlyoneiknow · 19/01/2014 22:57

Have you looked at the 2012 list of every name registered?

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Juno77 · 19/01/2014 22:55

Ossian sounds invented.

Scottish names are way too popular around here. Not keen.

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Theonlyoneiknow · 19/01/2014 22:54

Story if already suggested

Coll
Gregor
Callan
Cairn
Tearlach
Harris
Struan
Fergus

Theonlyoneiknow · 19/01/2014 22:51

Ossian?

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Juno77 · 19/01/2014 22:50

And, Smith? Really?

People are calling their children Smith?

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Juno77 · 19/01/2014 22:49

Ned is awful.

Llewelyn is a hideous suggestion for a child's name!

Keir is not to my taste personally, I find it a bit Chavvy.

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soontobeslendergirl · 19/01/2014 22:45

I think you already dismissed it, but Keir is another in similar style. Non chavvy, surnamey, not common but normal.

sausageandorangepickle · 19/01/2014 22:43

Casson
Pierce/Pearce
Reid
LLewellyn
Smith
Mitchell