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Large immediate family ruling out names. Help!

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sugarplumfairy28 · 14/02/2016 20:22

Both DH and I have large immediate families, and we don't want overlap. Boys names are a pain anyway and we want something uncommon but not already in use.

I'm liking Dexter, but not sure if this is phase, and Felix, possibly Archer. Nothing seems to be jumping out. Any suggestions along these lines. Please no James, George or Harrys.

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Sallyhasleftthebuilding · 16/02/2016 23:35

What about Brett or Edward or Joseph?

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sugarplumfairy28 · 16/02/2016 21:21

Haha noooooo. I think the short list is:
Felix, Kade, Kody, Dexter and Archer.

What doesn't help is that we live in Germany albeit English in orgin, so the name not only has to met our fussiness, but also has to be a name that can be traced to English origin if it isn't already on the German 'approved' names list. Felix at least in the UK I wouldn't say in uber popular and so I'm happy with that, the benefit to it is, it is in the top 10 boys names here. Dexter I believe is problem free the others however, may cause us a bit of grief.

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thebiscuitindustry · 16/02/2016 19:30

Oh sorry, I thought you meant that was your latest shortlist! Grin

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sugarplumfairy28 · 16/02/2016 19:26

haha biscuit we have both of those, although DH's side this time, both rather immediate, and kinda not our thing.

Thank you everyone for your suggestions! Am hoping that with some more DH will fall in love with at least one of these names!

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thebiscuitindustry · 16/02/2016 19:10

Phillip and Wesley are my favourites of those.

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sugarplumfairy28 · 16/02/2016 18:02

Wow Abita you had a bit of a brainstorm.

I have been wondering about Cody but not sure it rolls of the tongue easily enough with Miller and Ottilie.
We have Lee
Phillip
Wesley
Rhys
Jeremy
Dean
Marcus
Christian
Nathan.

Not too sure about the rest, Casey is a no no, and Otto or Otis would be a bit odd with Ottilie. Kade is different though!

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Enkopkaffetak · 16/02/2016 17:58

Phoenix
Griffin
Enzo
Porter
Eli
Titus
Arlo
Gus
Riess
Laurie
Finn
Zander
Ashton
Walt (or Walter)

(Sorry if I repeated any above)

ABitAsleep · 16/02/2016 14:29

Oooh now I keep thinking of more;

Buckley
Mcauley/Mcaulay/Macauley
Weston
Facton
Foster
Derren
Mack
Joel
Dale
Bryn
Davis
Owen
Jonah/Jonas
Gareth/Garrett/Garth
Jarad/Jarard/Jerad/Jarreth
Garson/Greyson
Casper
Cade/Kade
Casey
Jethro
Ramsey
Randall/Randell
Aiden/Adrien
Hallam
Henley
Hugo/hugh
Finn/Finnley/Fynn/Fynnley
Flint
Orien/Orion
Otto/Otis
Robin
Dion

BikeRunSki · 16/02/2016 14:01

Fletcher

ABitAsleep · 16/02/2016 13:58

A few suggestions for you;

Cody/Kody
Corey/Cory/Corrie (I knew a boy at school called Corrie - it was pronounced corey, but it often got mispronounced)
Devon/Devan
Kenton
Lee
Phillip
Wesley
Reece/Reese/Rhys
Jem/Jeremy
Dean
Eli
Marcus
Christian
Louie/Louis
Nathan/Nathaniel
Jesse

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sugarplumfairy28 · 15/02/2016 17:03

Yes Biscuit but not sure if that's just in lieu of anything else, which I don't want it to be the case. With DS it took ages ages to come up with anything, and then it came up that FIL's middle name was Miller and I knew immediately that was it, and Francis is my Dad's first name so it worked quite naturally and DH agreed.

I'd always known that my DD would be Ottilie (for lots of sentimental family name related reasons, and the fact I love it) her middle names were a little problematic as ideally we only wanted one middle name, but as DS was named after both our fathers, both our mothers were being rather emotional about not being in there. We tried the idea of merging Ann and Vivien to Viviann or Vivien Ann but it didn't real right, so she is Debra Ann (my mums first name and MIL's middle), but her first name was easy.

For DC3 where we don't know what we're having, I'm having this meltdown about boys names. Girls, I have lots of ideas, Raine, Melody, Luna, Heidi, River, Merrit, but boys, because there are so many in the family, I wouldn't want our son to get lost in the mix of everyone else, and as you can see my family, genetically maybe, don't go in for the mainstream names.

I have mentioned Jenson to DH, we know of a couple, which is no big deal, but he is a massive F1 fan and not sure he likes the idea.

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thebiscuitindustry · 15/02/2016 16:49

Do you find you keep coming back to Felix? Felix Michael would be a very nice name...

Rufus
Hendrix (Ricky)
Jensen
Tristan
Jago
Blue
Orion
Sirius
Cedar
Duncan
Samuel
Edison
Raymond
Kieran
Alistair
Miles
Kyle
Colton

LizzieMacQueen · 15/02/2016 16:31

Hector

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sugarplumfairy28 · 15/02/2016 16:27

manic DH isn't against Felix, he is very laid back about pretty much everything lol. I'm afraid the mainstream names aren't much better, We have Adam, David, Ian, John, Paul, Stephen and Timothy. Kenneth and Michael are our potential middle names.

I have mentioned River but DH isn't sure, he likes it more as a girl name, River Song (Doctor Who) instead of River Phoenix lines. He actually had a straight forward no to Rowan though.

Newbear it does seem that way doesn't it lol.

Imperial we do indeed have 10 cats, we have also have 2 dogs a bearded dragon and 2 fish tanks. I have a degree in animal management and am a bit of an animal nut.

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ImperialBlether · 15/02/2016 15:18

I know I'm missing the point entirely, but you have ten cats?

thebiscuitindustry · 15/02/2016 15:11

Malachi
Heath
Levi
Lucas
Idris
Caspar
Cassius
Jed
Sebastian
Sylvester
Ross
Patrick
Arthur
Sidney
Seth
Marius
Gabriel

manicinsomniac · 15/02/2016 13:53

I can kind of see where you husband is coming from with Rex - but think it's only a problem when combined with Felix. Either are fine alone. I once taught a class which had Rex, Felix and 2 Kittys - there was a standing joke about us being the Petshop Class.

It seems like the alternative/slightly American sounding market has been well and truly cornered in your family!

So how about going more 'mainstream but underused':
Adam, Anthony, Adrian, Alistair, Christian, David, Edmund, Gareth, Gregory, Ian, John, Joel, Kenneth, Michael, Martin, Paul, Richard, Robert, Simon, Stephen, Timothy

Or more alternative on a nature type theme:
Rowan, Robin, Jay, Birch, Blue, Skyler, Bear, Orion, River, Storm, Red

MyNewBearTotoro · 15/02/2016 13:30

Love Felix!

Dexter and Rex are cute too. Sounds like you like names with an x?

Others I can think of: Maddox, Hendrix, Huxley, Dixon, Braxton, Jaxon (Jackson), Texas, Xander, Pax, Knox

jemimastar · 15/02/2016 13:17

OP tell your Dh no such thing as "cats" "dogs" "guinea pig" name, we have moved on since the start of the century when pets only were called a handful of names, they are called anything and everything these days and discounting names for such an outdated and frankly bonkers reason is madness in itself!

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sugarplumfairy28 · 15/02/2016 12:27

We have a Cameron, Phoenix and Zane but close friends this time lol Guy is my Uncle and Jackson another Uncle's surname. I do quite like Blake, I also like Blaine but DH doesn't! Not overally keen on the others.

William is my FIL and DS already has his middle name so don't want double up on naming after the same person. DH doesn't like places so Hudson and Camden are out. I quite like Rex but DH is insisting it's a dog's name. Felix would be kinda ironic anyway as we are known as the cat people, having 10 and all.

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MangosteenSoda · 15/02/2016 12:01

Willem. Like William, but not.

Hudson - met a cool one recently.

manicinsomniac · 15/02/2016 11:52

Okay, trying again!:

Artem, Arlo, Bryn, Blair, Blake, Cameron, Camden, Chase, Carter, Dale, Declan, Emerson, Fabian, Guy, Ivo, Jolyon, Jackson, Kit, Merrick, Merl, Phoenix, Porter, Stanley, Titus, Wilkie, Zane

jemimastar · 15/02/2016 11:13

Rex
Laurence
Conrad
Cormac

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sugarplumfairy28 · 15/02/2016 11:01

Have an uncle Frank who my parents are not on good terms with and we have a Frankie, which is admittedly really cute, but the bad relationship would taint the name.

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MyNameIsSuz · 15/02/2016 10:58

I like a lot of your names, we ended up with a Franklin, would that work? Frank is pretty cool for when he's older and Frankie when he's tiny.

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