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Original poster

A boys' name by this afternoon... Go!

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ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged · 22/08/2014 09:01

Imagine you're having a baby boy TODAY. What do you call him?

(And yes, I am, and no, I have no idea. We keep changing our minds)

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TeaAndALemonTart · 22/08/2014 10:08

Wait till you meet him. Both mine were nameless for at least a week.

MrsBungle · 22/08/2014 10:06

I would call my new baby boy Fraser and i would register him before dh found out and scuppered my plan

Allalonenow · 22/08/2014 10:04

Finbar or Rory

Peregrin · 22/08/2014 10:00

William
Benedict
Sebastian
Matthias

I kept turning the shortlist over in my mind, thought about nicknames, connotations and how they sounded in other language versions.

Good luck!

bauhausfan · 22/08/2014 09:55

Elliot
Laurence nn Laurie

Legionofboom · 22/08/2014 09:54

Angus

MackerelOfFact · 22/08/2014 09:54

I'd take a look at him and decide which he looked most like out of Otto, Casper, Asa or anything else that leapt into my mind when I saw him.

A friend has a baby called William but I always manage to call him George because he just looks like a George. Every single time. Blush

Didactylos · 22/08/2014 09:47

Mikko

but we had a girl instead

HemlockStarglimmer · 22/08/2014 09:44

John - nickname Jack.

I'd picked a boy's name and a girl's name years ago. I just knew.

merce · 22/08/2014 09:44

Dexter. Or Conrad

SuburbanRhonda · 22/08/2014 09:42

Caleb

(Brother of Ethan in Casualty)

Grin
Bicnod · 22/08/2014 09:38

Oscar
James
Douglas
Robert
Benjamin

Good luck OP Smile

4boysxhappy · 22/08/2014 09:37

Horace or Oliver

curiousgeorgie · 22/08/2014 09:33

Jasper, Elliot or Sebastian

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ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged · 22/08/2014 09:30

Wondering if some of you were on my other thread ('brother for Ethan...') as some of the ones we've talked about have come up Smile

How do you 'know' what name to choose? I find it so hard.

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flymo79 · 22/08/2014 09:29

Ezra

Haahoooo · 22/08/2014 09:29

Casper. Good luck!

DesperateDelilah · 22/08/2014 09:28

Nicholas

Hope it goes well!

DesperateDelilah · 22/08/2014 09:28

Nicholas

Hope it goes well!

DesperateDelilah · 22/08/2014 09:28

Nicholas

Hope it goes well!

olaflikeswarmhugs · 22/08/2014 09:27

Gabriel

Bassface · 22/08/2014 09:24

Isaac

jerryfudd · 22/08/2014 09:23

Dexter

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CheesyBadger · 22/08/2014 09:19

Sebastian
Elliott

I would be torn also
And I wouldn't call him Archer, it is just the name of a new baby I met the other day