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Boys names ! OLD ENGLISH

85 replies

RLou3 · 01/04/2022 18:30

Hi all,

Wondered if anyone could please help. Struggling so much with picking a boys name! I like really unusual but DH does not! So compromising on a name that is heard of but not common! Any ideas... please post xxxx

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Koshnique · 01/04/2022 19:34

Uhtred

Koshnique · 01/04/2022 19:33

Edwin
Alaric

PollyPutTheKettleOnKettleOn · 01/04/2022 19:33

Eric
Geoffrey
Oswald
Cynric
Penda
Uhtred

CaptainCallisto · 01/04/2022 19:30

Oswin
Wulfric
Aelfric

All potential names for DS1 (ended up being Edmund because I couldn't convince DH!)

Icanseethepigeon · 01/04/2022 19:21

Jago

AdaColeman · 01/04/2022 19:19

Thorold

Thormund

Nicholas

AdaColeman · 01/04/2022 19:17

Leofric

Edgar

Edmund (my favourite)

Ragnar (another favourite)

Erik

ghislaine · 01/04/2022 19:17

Edwin
Edmund
John
Bernard
Thaddeus
Lionel

If you go to nameberry, you can input six or so names that you like and it will generate suggestions for you.

KirstenBlest · 01/04/2022 19:14

Vaughan/Vaughn is an anglicised welsh name

Pumasonsatsumas · 01/04/2022 19:12

Lots here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English_Roman_Catholic_saints

Yika · 01/04/2022 19:11

Piers
Chad
Sherwin

Chickenkatsu · 01/04/2022 19:11

Caedman

Changeychangey · 01/04/2022 19:10

Some old Irish and Northumbria saints had good names

Aidan
Bede
Dominic
Patrick
Benedict
Michael
Petroc
Kentigern
Fergus

I have a cool 20 year old Aidan, who loves the roots of his name and insisted on going to Iona and Lindisfarne, which he still calls "my islands".

HellToTheNope · 01/04/2022 19:10

Vaughn

KristinaYang · 01/04/2022 19:08

Marlon
Hector
Geoffrey
Hugh
Noel
Percival

RosesAndHellebores · 01/04/2022 18:51

Merlin
Gawain
Gaius
Magnus (not old English)
Hector
Tristan

Ellmau · 01/04/2022 18:49

Jasper
Conrad
Maximilian
Giles
Julius

whatausername · 01/04/2022 18:48

Godwin

KirstenBlest · 01/04/2022 18:47

Hereward
Horatio
Norman

SpaceJamtart · 01/04/2022 18:47

Marlow, Chester, Barden, Weston

JosephineDeBeauharnais · 01/04/2022 18:41

Roger
Geoffrey
Stephen
Robert
Aelred
Cuthbert

VoodooBadger · 01/04/2022 18:40

Edwin
Edgar

Riverlee · 01/04/2022 18:40

Harold
Edmund
Godfrey
Emmett
Elliott
Selwyn
Wesley
Richard

KimWexlersPonyTail · 01/04/2022 18:39

Gerald. Ged / Gerry for short

Newuser82 · 01/04/2022 18:38

Arthur, Albert, Cedric, Cecil, Walter, Norman.