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Elaborate, romantic, OTT boys’ names!

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Naberes · 07/03/2018 23:06

For a project, not a baby! So don’t hold back Grin

Hit me with your wildest and wonderful-est suggestions please. Specifically looking for names with a romantic/whimsical/mystical bent.

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GlitterGlassEye · 09/03/2018 21:30

Rhett. I adore that name but I won’t be having anymore children.

elQuintoConyo · 09/03/2018 21:24

Aurelian
Unax
Tate

Callamia · 09/03/2018 20:47

Constantin
Trevelyan
Raffaele

Potcallingkettle · 09/03/2018 20:44

Fitzmaurice
Peregrine
Aethelred

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 09/03/2018 20:39

Caradoc, not Paradox!

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 09/03/2018 20:39

Clement
Aubrey
Aurelius
Pyramus
Montmorency
Pythagoras
Gawain
Blancheflower
Bedivere
Paradox
Leodegrance

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 09/03/2018 20:35

Zephyr

FutureMrsTempah · 09/03/2018 20:30

Horatio
Leopold
Emmanuel
Raphael

GransGloves · 09/03/2018 20:20

Quite a few of those mentioned are on my list for number 2. Not sure if I should be worried by that Shock

Kentigern
Columbus
Ulysses
Perseus

LillyColts · 09/03/2018 17:47

Sylvester

Magpie24 · 09/03/2018 16:00

Valentine

MammieBear · 08/03/2018 10:00

I could go on and on...

MammieBear · 08/03/2018 09:59

Pendragon
Michaelangelo
Erasmus (gorgeous meaning, I would use this but my Son's name begins with E)
Fabian
Tristram
Makepeace (William Makepeace Thakarey)
Thakarey
Jarrett
Dashiel
Abraham
Caius

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 08/03/2018 09:36

Romeo
Rhett
Valentino

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Naberes · 08/03/2018 07:46

Perfect, thank you!

(I know a little Horatio too)

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BabloHoney · 08/03/2018 06:56

Lysander

HisBetterHalf · 08/03/2018 06:37

Romeo defo OTT and romantic

ChocolateCrunch · 08/03/2018 06:31

Achilles
Atticus
Lucius
Maximus
Tiberius
Adonis
Hercules
Lancelot
Othello
Caspian
Orion
Apollo

MummyItsallaboutyou · 08/03/2018 06:31

Horatio. There's one a dd's nursery.

user1498549192 · 08/03/2018 06:24

Apollo
Leonidas
Aurelius
Octavian
Amaury
Cassian
Isidore

InSisu · 07/03/2018 23:55

Leander
Thibault
Florian
Bartholomew

pieceofpurplesky · 07/03/2018 23:53

Montgomery
St John
Heathcliffe
Gabriel
Aloysius

IVflytrap · 07/03/2018 23:48

Orion
Osian
Parsifal
Lancelot
Diomedes
Octavian
Ulysses
Ferdinand
Prospero
Marius
Darius
Anastasios
Anaximander
Xerxes

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Naberes · 07/03/2018 23:44

These are so great! Thanks. Please keep them coming — the more fanciful the better.

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ncsunday · 07/03/2018 23:38

Eduardo