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Need an unusual but nice boys name...

143 replies

Sophiemck95 · 02/03/2017 18:59

I'm due a baby boy in July 2017, but am really struggling to find a name I actually like. I want a strong, unusual name that nobody really has but it's proving difficult. Somebody please help. My boyfriend doesn't like Leo, Carter or Hugo. Please help me I'm driving myself mad lol

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user1482079332 · 19/05/2017 09:44

Hudson
Remy
Ezra
Ceasar
Silas
Samson
Asher
Kanen
Rocco
Rio
Solomon
Shilo
Sawyer
Idris
troy
Reon
Kyrie
josiah
Zephan
cohen
drew
cole
Emerson roland

PattyPenguin · 19/05/2017 07:53

Just a note that one of the names in buttercup's list, Rhian, is in fact a girl's name (it's from the Celtic word riganta, meaning 'queen', though came to mean 'maiden' in the middle ages, before being used as a name).

Ladycocobrazil · 18/05/2017 19:44

Yes

daisypond · 18/05/2017 17:47

Leo and Hugo are not unusual names.
Oswald.

Racheyg · 18/05/2017 17:07

If we have a third and it's a boy I will call him Rudy.

I also like the name jack.

grufallosfriend · 18/05/2017 16:30

I agree - unusual names are just that, unusual and not overused. Whether a person is 'posh' or not has nothing to do with their name!

user1492528619 · 18/05/2017 16:04

Moses
Grayson
Ezra
Oakley

User06383 · 18/05/2017 15:59

Also unusual names sound extremely posh. Which is fine, if that's what you want but they're more than just 'unusual names', they are social markers.

😂How? Surely it depends on the family and their upbringing as to how 'posh' they are? You can't make someone 'posh' just by giving them an unusual name!

LittleBlueRidingBoot · 18/05/2017 15:30

Montmorency

buttercup54321 · 16/05/2017 22:58

Hugh
Leon
Terry
Barry
Wayne
Wayland
Brett
Brinton
Quentin
Vincent
Christian
Rhian
Adrian
Hubert
Guy
Perry
Gideon
Dominic
Finbar
Bernard
Trey

MrsCharlieD · 16/05/2017 19:29

We have a 3yo Jude and are currently expecting a River. On my list this time was Xander, Griffin, Nate, Jesse, Sonny, Nixon, Rafferty, Atticus and Bodhi.

Jude seems to be climbing in popularity although it's still outside of the top 50. This does bother me somewhat but as a huge Beatles fan nothing else came close.

buttercup54321 · 14/05/2017 19:03

John
David
Martin
Jabus
Travis
Ray
Josiah

SilvaCaledonia · 14/05/2017 18:22

Wes or Wesley.

boobyooby · 14/05/2017 18:17

Gillam is a name I've only ever heard once from a family friend .... think he'd be about 25 now

Silas is another, and I like it too

SumAndSubstance · 07/03/2017 14:11

Lobster - you'd pronounce it Gabe-rille instead of the female version which would be Gab-riel

Gabriel is definitely the male version, as in the angel Gabriel...

Mrsknackered · 06/03/2017 17:25

Haven't read the whole thread so not sure if these are duplicates but:

Jago
Amos
Reggie
Leonard (Lennie)
Hendrik
Isa/Issa/Esa
Bodhi
Otto
Angelo
Shea
Oisín
Leif
Sonny
Cohen
Cass/Cassius

Hushabyelullaby · 06/03/2017 17:00

Shay/Shea (pronounced the same)
Kane/Cain
Preston
Keir
Asa
Lorcan
Dante
Cillian/Killian
Raiden/Rayden
Gabe
Hudson
Trey
Olen
Jaren
Lucien
Aspen
Mac
Kase
Jax
Rafe
Zane

Gummibears · 06/03/2017 15:58

Rocco
Magnus
Quentin
Darius
Lawrence

Chocolatedreamsandtea · 06/03/2017 14:45

Atticus

Kweeeeeeenin84 · 06/03/2017 12:24

My list for a boy is: Rocky Jacob, Kenickie Milo, Rory Junior (after hubby), Arlo Jaxon, Cole, Darcy Cole.... I like these as they go with my husband's surname :)

Kweeeeeeenin84 · 06/03/2017 12:13

My cousins have quite unusual names: Jordan Chandler, Joshua Rome, Billy Blue & India Rose.

DestinationSofa · 06/03/2017 09:13

Atlas

Rockaby · 05/03/2017 15:37

I know what you mean shagged. I like 'unusual' (using term loosely) names like Rafferty, Milo, Arlo etc, but I do wonder if they will date badly and become the next generation's Wayne, Ian or Gavin (no offence intended to anyone named Wayne etc).

Sorry, that's^^ really nothing to do with the OP!

Aquamarine1029 · 05/03/2017 15:15

Hudson

shaggedthruahedgebackwards · 05/03/2017 09:42

Ha ha - I am loving the turn this thread has taken and am kind of on the fence about whether popular 1970s names can be classed as 'unusual' on the basis that they will likely be the only one in their peer group despite there being millions of men with these names in their 40s, 50s, 60s etc

The reality is that some of the names being suggested as being 'unusual' - Jude, Leo, Arlo, Milo, Rafferty aren't that unusual at all and are just the current generation of names like Stuart, Gavin, Adrian, Wayne from the 1970s (i.e. less of them Thomas, James, Harry, Jack, Sam etc but still lots of the about!

40 years down the line I'm not sure anyone really cares. I doubt all the Daves, Johns & Davids feel an inferiority complex to their mates Jason & Graham!