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Boys names are hard

36 replies

ancienthouse · 19/09/2022 10:15

I can't think of any that I like!

Would like something not top twenty, but not too unusual so a name that people will likely have heard of.
No biblical names.
Like the sound of Welsh and Scandinavian origin names.

Any ideas?

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KirstenBlest · 19/09/2022 14:53

@biftaa, Jonas is from the bible

I'm not a great reader of the bible, but I thought it was JonaH and the whale? I dunno, perhaps there is a Jonas in there.

I consider Jonas a very Northern European name, like the author (Swedish?). My Jonas plays football with a Lithuanian Jonas of the same age, whose family pronounce it "yonas". I picked the name after the Weezer song 😂

MissyB1 · 19/09/2022 15:13

I love
Conn
Conrad
Pascal
Magnus
Linus
Vilmar

FredrikaPeri · 19/09/2022 15:02

Otto
Arlo
Axel
Finn
Lars
Sven
Aaren
Boe
Kai
Magnus
Roscoe
Viggo
Thor

ohmyohmy123 · 19/09/2022 14:57

Have you got no names in the family tree that you like that you could shorten etc?

I like the following as they are less common.

Xander
Xavier
Joel
Lenny
Issac

KirstenBlest · 19/09/2022 14:55

Some anglicised welsh names -
Lloyd
Vaughan
Owen
Griffith

Some Welsh names -
Bryn
Glyn
Huw
Aled
Iestyn

HuntingoftheSnark · 19/09/2022 14:53

Conrad
Byron
Rufus

KirstenBlest · 19/09/2022 14:53

@biftaa, Jonas is from the bible

biftaa · 19/09/2022 14:47

I like your style!

My sons:
Evan - Welsh
Jonas - Scandi

Now I'll change my MN name again 😂

Lilacsunflowers · 19/09/2022 14:29

Not necessarily Welsh or Scandinavian but how about

Magnus
Quentin
Raphael
Caspar
Leonard

toastofthetown · 19/09/2022 12:24

Not all Welsh/Scandi, but here are some names out of the top 20 I like. Not sure if any of them are biblical (I'm not very biblical so would need to look it up!) but none are overtly religious like Elijah/Josiah.

August
Casimir
Henrik
Linus
Magnus
Rasmus
Robin
Stellan

Haus1234 · 19/09/2022 10:16

Soren
Magnus
Keir

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