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Original poster

Elaborate, romantic, OTT boys’ names!

43 replies

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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SongsOfInnocence · 07/03/2018 23:36

Strike through fail. Sigh.

Harold
Mandeville
Horatio
Theophil
Manfred

mumgointhroughtorture · 07/03/2018 23:33

Otis
Caspian
Romeo
Lorenzo
Heathcliff
Demetrius
Roman

Slapdasherie · 07/03/2018 23:29

My DS is at school with a Galileo, nn Gally.

Tarquin?

SongsOfInnocence · 07/03/2018 23:23

It may be worth going for a wander around a Victorian graveyard - you see some fabulous names there! (Obviously can’t think of any right now... —unhelpful—

Buntysoven · 07/03/2018 23:23

Florian
Dorian
Demetrius
Romeo

TheRattleBag · 07/03/2018 23:19

Ozymandias

Remote1candles · 07/03/2018 23:17

Constantinople
Isambard-Kingdom
Emmanuel

MyBrilliantDisguise · 07/03/2018 23:15

Gabriel - love it!

AuditAngel · 07/03/2018 23:14

DS is Valentino, which I still adore (after 14 years)

Greenicicle · 07/03/2018 23:13

Piers?

LovelyBranches · 07/03/2018 23:12

I love the name Fabian but I have a soft spot for the name Marvellous

Bloomed · 07/03/2018 23:10

Raphael

NC4Now · 07/03/2018 23:09

Sebastian
Fabian

Mintylemons · 07/03/2018 23:09

Heathcliffe
Ptolemy
Agree with Orlando.

BeBesideTheSea · 07/03/2018 23:08

Byron

thisismadness77 · 07/03/2018 23:07

Beau

calzone · 07/03/2018 23:07

Jolyon
Montgomery
Willoughby
Augustus
Peregrine

MairzyDoats · 07/03/2018 23:06

Orlando and Lysander. Oh and Valentine.