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Lysander

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toobreathless · 23/06/2015 20:16

Thoughts please.

This is the only name we have both agreed on so far!

DH likes: Atticus, Horatio

I like: Solomon, Gideon, Percival.

Middle name will be John for family reasons.

What do you think?

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BangingTheDrums · 23/06/2015 21:58

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MamaLazarou · 23/06/2015 21:55

Solomon is lovely.

CotedePablo · 23/06/2015 21:54

It depends on your place on the social scale. If you live in a tower block where there's tons of single mums (no offence to single mums of course) with 12 children each with different fathers, it wouldn't work. However, if you happen to have your own 48 room mansion, and Wills and Kate were at your wedding, then Lysander will probably work, as will the other names.

UnspecialSnowflake · 23/06/2015 21:49

Alexander would give you the nicknames Sandy and Xander but minus the ponce factor.

Zakken · 23/06/2015 21:48

Why Xander? Where has that X come from?

If that's what you want, what's wrong with Alexander?

GladysTheGolem · 23/06/2015 21:44

Percival is my favourite.
All of this (bar Atticus) were on my long list before DH got involved!

Lysander is very poncy (said the woman who wanted one of hers to be called Rafferty)!

FriendlyLadybird · 23/06/2015 21:40

I LONGED to have a son called Lysander. I'd have had another called Hector too -- I learned the British Grenadiers as a child. I also like Atticus and Horatio, but not the others. John/Johnny are cool too though.

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elderflowerlemonade · 23/06/2015 21:26

Blimey I love love LOVE AMND and my wedding was based around it but - no! Grin

Erm - Oberon? (Just kidding!)

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Rhubarbgarden · 23/06/2015 21:25

I like it, but it is poncetastic.

MitzyLeFrouf · 23/06/2015 21:23

Solomon is my favourite from the list. I don't think it's tease-worthy, I think Sol/Solomon sounds like the cool kid with the guitar.

NomiMalone · 23/06/2015 21:23

Lysander is the best of your poncey names. Xander is a good nn.

I prefer John to all of them though. Johnny is cool.

MrsHenryMountbattenWindsor · 23/06/2015 21:22

the poor kid's gonna get 7 types of shit beaten out of him at school.

Not if he's at school with Atticus, Horatio, Solomon, Gideon and Percival!

MitzyLeFrouf · 23/06/2015 21:21

I imagine a Regency romantic hero, maybe with a touch of TB for added romantic pallor.

At 16 your Lysander will be dedicating sonnets to a girl's eyes while his pals will be off happy slapping or whatever antics da yoof will get up to in 2030.

villainousbroodmare · 23/06/2015 21:21

It's the try-hardest list I've ever heard. Grin

Spog · 23/06/2015 21:20

all so, so arseweepingly awful.
the poor kid's gonna get 7 types of shit beaten out of him at school.
as rachel from friends once said: "are you in involved in some kind of dare?"

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toobreathless · 23/06/2015 21:20

Thank you all.

I was prepared for some people to hate it :) I suspect our DDs names are also quite 'marmite'

Nicknames would be Xander or Sandy.

I don't mind the 'lice' thing, I don't think it's the obvious nickname for it, I get the same response every time I see Alice though! I think 'A Lice!'

Our surname is very short, one syllable, and needs a longer name IYSWIM.

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MamaLazarou · 23/06/2015 21:16

I'm sorry but it's just too try-hard.

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MrsHenryMountbattenWindsor · 23/06/2015 21:12

I was going to call my baby Lysander!!! But she turned out to be a DD, and anyway I thought people would laugh at me! Us country folk can't really carry off those kinds of names.

Takver · 23/06/2015 21:10

I like it. I slightly know a very nice middle aged Scouse bloke called Lysander and he doesn't seem to ever shorten it. Xander is a cool nname if you wanted one, though.

Of your other options, I like Horatio best.

BlankXpression · 23/06/2015 21:07

I like it. And it is far nice than any of your others.

OllyBJolly · 23/06/2015 21:05

Always loved that name! If I'd had a boy it would have been a contender.

Sandy, Lee, Derry, Xander.

Amummyatlast · 23/06/2015 21:03

I prefer Lysander to your other possible names. I've always liked A Midsummer Night's Dream.