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What do you do when...

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Cbeebiesrehab · 13/04/2018 19:21

...you literally can not find a name to even consider??

We had the perfect girls name but we are having a boy. Absolutely thrilled but...he is nameless. He is due soon and we have spent hours/days/months trawling for a name and just none of them feel right for our little boy. Has anyone been in this situation? It’s making me really sad. Shall we just pick a random name and hope it becomes him? We knew our daughters name before we even conceived her and I love names-guess I’m just waiting for the perfect name but maybe it doesn’t exist? Just hoping there is someone who has been in a similar situation to me. Thanks for listening to my hormonal rant.

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RebeccaCloud9 · 13/04/2018 21:15

Rufus
Fraser
Rafe
Ezra

We didn't name either of our children until they were several days old - even when we had picked, we tested them out for a while before announcing. There's no rush!

user1498549192 · 13/04/2018 21:12

I would be inclined to wait until he is born... Sometimes a name is just written all over a baby's face!

In the meantime, how about:

Stanley
Laurence
Emil
Miles
Quentin
Henry
Rupert
Patrick
Edward
Felix
Caspar
Sebastian
Nathaniel
Tristan
Julian
Tobias
Oscar
Fergus
Elias
Hector
Hugo

ChocolateCrunch · 13/04/2018 21:01

Otis, Rory, Joel, Linus?

MoonFacesMum · 13/04/2018 20:59

Archie

Aria2015 · 13/04/2018 20:48

I used to think that id have to in love with a name to give it to my child but like you, I couldn't really find any boys names both dh and I loves. So we settled for a name we quite liked and over time I've grown to love and feel like it suits my lo perfectly.

rextrex · 13/04/2018 20:38

Magnus, Monty, Matthias

AmericanBiscuits · 13/04/2018 20:36

Errol
Royston
Sydney
Francis

liquidrevolution · 13/04/2018 20:31

Edwin or Edmund would work. Love both those names.

C0untDucku1a · 13/04/2018 20:30

I liked Perry when i was pregnant. peregrine. At the time i was watching a lot of fireman sam and scrubs.

I also loved sidney.

MikeUniformMike · 13/04/2018 20:28

Gavin, Alexander, Max, Ross, Rex, Marcus, ...

badg3r · 13/04/2018 20:28

I felt like this when picking DC2's name. I went through the entire ONS baby names list from 2016 saying them out loud and deleting all the no's. Out of over 3000 names I got about 15 that were not terrible Wink
But one of them was DC2's name and it is perfect.

To go with Edith:
Thomas
Francis
Laurie
Peter
Philip
Kit (Christopher)

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 13/04/2018 20:27

Douglas. Peter. Robert. Vincent. Nicholas.
David. Thomas. Alexander. Simon. Richard.
Andrew. William.

MikeUniformMike · 13/04/2018 20:27

Charlie, John(ny), Eric, Paul, George, Simon, Stephen, Peter.
Nicodemus, Horatio, Angus, ...

GreenTulips · 13/04/2018 20:26

Orry - he was a king

MikeUniformMike · 13/04/2018 20:24

Thanks. Arthur was my first thought but I'm not keen on it
Is there a family name you like (Grandad/ greatgrandad/great uncle)?
How about a 'Dad' name like Philip, Alan, Richard...
I like Edgar.

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Cbeebiesrehab · 13/04/2018 20:21

I’m but Gordon is a no😂

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Cbeebiesrehab · 13/04/2018 20:21

Our girls name is Edie (Edith) and our daughter has an old fashioned name too so I guess that’s our style but at this point I’m really not sure. We have gone through all the Albert/Alfred/Wilfred/Arthur type names and none of them really appeal to us

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Marv1nGay3 · 13/04/2018 20:18

We were stuck too! We asked our closest friends to suggest some names they liked and my husband’s best friend came up with our daughter’s name! It’s a lovely name we hadn’t thought of. (We were convinced we were having a boy!)

MikeUniformMike · 13/04/2018 20:15

Artimus would get mixed up with Artemis.

MikeUniformMike · 13/04/2018 20:14

What is the girl's name you have chosen?
Guy is on another thread, and is lovely. I just said Gordon because it was the first name that popped into my mind.

Aprilmightbemynewname · 13/04/2018 20:13

Anything but Gordon, exh's name and he was a useless article!!
How about Artimus? Arty for nn!

MikeUniformMike · 13/04/2018 20:11

Gordon

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 13/04/2018 20:07

What type of naming style do you like.
Vintage. Modern. Vintage/modern. Trendy.
biblical. Surname names.
Although you may find he comes with his name