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Boys Name Struggle

34 replies

shoesarefab · 17/08/2018 19:35

So I have two girls (Delilah and Bathsheba), but I’m due a boy beginning of September. I am seriously struggling to find something that I love. Ideally it would be Old Testament, 3 syllables, outside of the top 100 and have a good story behind it. I think the problem is I had a third girls name that I would have used and I really love the stories abs meaning behind my daughters names. I just don’t have that with a boy. My current list follows and there is a “a problem” with all of them.

Aurelius (DH hates)
Balthazar (too close to daughters name)
Ezekiel (logical next step from Zachary which is gaining popularity fast)
Gabriel (DH hates, top 100)
Isaac (top 100)
Hector (my cousin has a Hector)
Solomon (conjures up images of ultra Orthodox Jews or Sol Campbell the footballer).

Please help, I’m starting to panic massively now!!!!!

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finallychangedmyusername · 17/08/2018 20:15

Isaiah
Lazarus
Elnathan
Elisha
Gideon
Josiah
Malachi
Phineas (although Finn is very popular)
Thaddeus

NoSleepTil2030 · 17/08/2018 20:15

Why does it have to be outside the top 100?

AtticaRose · 17/08/2018 20:12

Isaiah is very nice - normally Isaiah or Isaias, not Isiah.

NameChangedNow · 17/08/2018 20:07

No contribution to make but oh my goodness Bathsheba 😍

AtticaRose · 17/08/2018 20:07

How about a variant like Esdras or Ezras?

Can I ask why being outside the top 100 is so important to you?

There's always a risk if you choose something that it will have a popularity surge later... Better to choose something you like regardless?

shoesarefab · 17/08/2018 20:06

I did think Isiah?

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MikeUniformMike · 17/08/2018 20:05

Theophilus

shoesarefab · 17/08/2018 20:03

My husband did suggest Ezra but it’s top 100. I just don’t love anything this time round which is my biggest problem. I feel a bit “meh” about everything on my list 🙈

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AtticaRose · 17/08/2018 19:56

My first thoughts:

Asher (only two syllables, but means happy!)
Nathaniel

From a list:

Abraham
Absalom
Ariel
Azariah
Barnabas
Bartholomew
Baruch
Ebenezer
Eleazar
Eliakim
Elisha
Elijah
Eliud
Emmanuel
Esdras
Ezra
Isaias
Ishmael
Japheth
Joshua
Jeremiah
Jonathan
Josiah
Malachi
Mattan
Matthias
Obadiah
Othniel
Phineas
Raphael
Samuel
Simeon
Thaddeus
Zachary
Zachariah
Zuriel