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Original poster

Help! It's a boy!

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aroha77 · 31/05/2017 21:17

I'm 33 weeks and have just found out it's a boy! Thought I was keeping an open mind but I'm so surprised!! And we don't have any boy's names!

Older sister is called Olive which is difficult to 'match' with!

Any ideas

(Everyone who hated Indigo Joan on my previous thread can be glad to know that I can't use it )

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flumpybear · 07/06/2017 18:08

Hunter?

Swearwolf · 07/06/2017 18:03

I agree about Sam, it's nice but boring and there are loads about!

grufallosfriend · 06/06/2017 14:16

Moses is lovely! Classic and cool imo.

Personally I find Sam quite dull (so not everyone loves it )

OhTheRoses · 06/06/2017 11:48

I agree with vintage but not Arthur although I love it. On The Buses. Probably rules out Jack and Stan (ley) too

FreeNiki · 06/06/2017 11:40

Moses is very biblical but a great name!

If you like biblical names maybe Samson or Samuel as I said. In Hebrew the meaning of the name Samson is: Sun child; bright sun.

There aren't many Sam's around and it just got rave reviews on a thread. There wasnt really anyone who didnt like it.

Original poster

aroha77 · 06/06/2017 06:53

Thanks everyone, loads of ideas!

I'm leaning towards Moses today (nn Mo)...not sure if too biblical though!!

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FreeNiki · 06/06/2017 02:00

Sam is getting rave reviews on another thread. Everyone loves it.

Can be a nn for Samuel, Samson.

Samson if you prefer more unusual.

Magpie24 · 04/06/2017 16:26

Dexter

KeiraKnightleyActsWithHerTeeth · 03/06/2017 14:55

Conrad
William
Ernest

RedMetamorphosis · 03/06/2017 14:49

Love Jasper.

Indiana!

Danglingmod · 03/06/2017 14:45

Why can't you still have Indigo?

All the a Indigos I know are boys, not girls!

PinkCrystal · 03/06/2017 14:43

Olive and

Flynn
Quentin
Quinn
Jacob
Zachary
Joel
Luca
Theodore
Isaac
Aiden
Daniel
Lachlan

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 03/06/2017 14:35

Sorry, caterpillars Entry?! I hope that's a typo because

RuthB4 · 03/06/2017 14:28

Jarrod
Rufus
Lawrence
Harry
Nate
Micah
Toby

Rockaby · 01/06/2017 12:01

Or how about Inigo? It's like Indigo which was your girl choice. Or ignore you wanted a colour, maybe Blue?

grufallosfriend · 01/06/2017 10:35

Olive and Quentin

Olive and Rufus

MyDarlingWhatIfYouFly · 01/06/2017 07:37

Oliver

HeteronormativeHaybales · 01/06/2017 07:32

It needs to be two syllables*, I think. The one that hit me as really going well out of the suggestions above is Jasper. Leonard and Louis work well too. I don't think a biblical name really goes, as much as I love those sorts of names.

*With the caveat that you could make me vicariously happy by using Orlando - the boys' name I never got (as dh vetoed and dc3 was a girl anyway) but love and I think would go really well with Olive.

Yika · 01/06/2017 07:28

Isambard
Bartholomew
John

NapQueen · 01/06/2017 07:28

Olive is on my list if we have an accident

My boys list (of which Ive used one of these):
Lawrence
Travis
Rex
Sid
Elliott
Leo
Dexter

Rockaby · 01/06/2017 07:26

I would also go with vintage, so any of beagle's suggestions or:

Wilfred
Leonard
Edmund
Ernest

Buntysoven · 01/06/2017 00:16

I love Olive with Felix as suggested by a pp

WankersHacksandThieves · 31/05/2017 23:18

Barnaby
Sylvester
Austin
Jesse

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 31/05/2017 22:50

Bernard. Not unusual as such, but There's not many little Bernards running around now. Plus it's very traditional and vintage.

Alan See above

TestTubeTeen · 31/05/2017 22:14

Inigo!

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