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Can't find a boy's name I like!

41 replies

Littlebitsleepy · 21/02/2019 15:41

I must have looked at 50 different lists of boys names and while there are some I quite like (some of the old man names, or ones with historical links), I haven't found a name I love yet. Can anyone think of any boys names that don't get suggested all the time that I may not have come across yet?

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anitagreen · 21/02/2019 23:17

Rànell

BikeRunSki · 21/02/2019 23:17

Clarence

flowersaremyfave · 21/02/2019 23:15

Emmet
Reginald
Amos
Arthur
Gerard
Wilfred

AmperoBlue · 21/02/2019 23:15

Ozymamdias ? I know a cool one that’s shorten to Ozzy
.Not English but maybe if you like unusual/ historic names an angel name Gabriel or Raphael.

I also have friends called Titus and Tobias (although Titus got a lot of stick growing up, so maybe not)
Laurence

NuffSaidSam · 21/02/2019 23:12

Sebastian
Theodore
Albert
Rupert
Patrick
Franklyn
Dominic
Gavin
Jago
Henry
Percy
Trevor
Derek
Stuart
Edmund
Edwin
Caspian
Melchior
Rudolph

Carouselfish · 21/02/2019 23:04

Maxim, Ray, Doug, Cary, Gabriel, Angus,

Bunnybigears · 21/02/2019 20:15

Ezekiel
Maximilian
Ferdinand
Horatio
Isambard
Lawrence

123Flopsy · 21/02/2019 20:13

Quentin
Marcus
Vincent

SilverySurfer · 21/02/2019 16:46

I love Marcus but if you REALLY like old English names, how about Ichabod Grin

Tubbykins · 21/02/2019 16:19

Angus
Timothy
Bernard
Montgomery
Nathaniel
Willoughby
Jonah
Eric
Edmund
Edwin
David
Cameron
Isaac
Ivan

Chocolatecake12 · 21/02/2019 16:13

Alexander
Daniel
William
Robert
Henry
Samuel
Timothy
Edward
Christopher
Nicholas
James
Benjamin

Tubbykins · 21/02/2019 16:12

Gregory
Peter
Simeon
Percy
Sidney
Robert
Tobias
Gabriel
Jasper
Roderick
Wilfred
Miles
Elliott
Grey
Jonathan
Benedict
Barnaby
Vincent
Evan
Ralph
Marcus
Felix
Owen
Louis
Clement
Quentin
Matthew
Rafferty
Basil

Sexnotgender · 21/02/2019 16:11

I just had a little boy and called him Francis.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 21/02/2019 16:11

Stanley
Wilfred
Albert
Fergus
Alex
Max

Original poster
Littlebitsleepy · 21/02/2019 16:09

Probably longer or more unusual names. I quite like a lot of the names on the medieval/old English lists but not sure I can bring myself to use them. I've got friends with babies called Sidney, Arthur and Felix and like all of those but don't want to give mine the same name.

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MikeUniformMike · 21/02/2019 15:49

Which names do you quite like?
Short names? e.g. Paul, Mark, John
Long names? e.g. Benedict, Jonathan, Jeremiah, Horatio
Unusual names? e.g. Peregrine
Classic names? e.g. Charles, Edward, Philip
Religious names? Saints? OT?

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