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Uncommon boy names please

87 replies

MummaLeonax · 11/04/2023 20:03

Struggling with boy names! my second is due in two months and have no idea on a boy name as my favourite boy name his big brother has please any different, unusual, uncommon boy names would be helpful thank you! I've searched the whole of Google too and hardly found any i have a couple but not 100% on they are Arlo, Ezra, my husband likes Archer.

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margegunderson · 11/04/2023 23:21

Roger
Clive

wordleaddict · 11/04/2023 23:19

Hereward, Dickon, Clive

wordleaddict · 11/04/2023 23:18

Keston, Colin, Kester, David, Benedick, Neil

neverendinglauaundry · 11/04/2023 23:16

John
Paul
Ian
Keith
Ethelred

neverendinglauaundry · 11/04/2023 23:14

Bernard
Gerald
Lawrence
Shadrach

MirandaBlu · 11/04/2023 23:14

Some aren't that unusual, but ...

Adair
Adam
Akiva
Asa
Cillian/Kilian
Conrad
Cormac
Dashiell
Efraim
Euan/Ewan
Giles
Gregor
Hamish
Hugh
Idris
Innes
Isak
Jasper
Joel
Kai
Lachlan
Lorcan
Niall
Noel
Oisin
Quentin
Rhys
Seth
Silas
Thad(deus)
Tobias
Victor
Walter

shadowchancesassy · 11/04/2023 23:14

Quentin
Leighton
Isiah
Roman
Connor
Kellar
Rueben
Ethan
Issac
Abraham

Thelastofbus · 11/04/2023 23:12

I know a couple each of arlo and Ezra.

I don’t know any of the following under ten:

Nathanial
Simon
Ellis
Jago
Tobias

CC4712 · 11/04/2023 23:01

I really like Archer.

Cren
Trader
Dalton
Colt/Colten
D'Arcy/Darcy
Otto

Polik · 11/04/2023 22:59

I know an Orestie (not sure on spelling, only heard it said - oh-rest-y). Nice name I thought.

The name I love but wouldn't realistically use is Ptolomy, nickname Tolly.

PickledScrump · 11/04/2023 22:50

I love archer, would have been my DD name if she was a boy, she’s 11 and i only know of 1. Both Ezra and especially Arlo are very popular now

JerseyRoyals · 11/04/2023 22:46

I heard a Patrick and a Paul today (twins about 5). That is pretty unusual nowadays where I am in the South of England.

shutthewindownow · 11/04/2023 22:44

Fraser

IamnotwhouthinkIam · 11/04/2023 22:28

If we are looking at uncommon boys names then I like short, simple ones (somehow seems to make them more useable to me)- if you like Ezra and Arlo, you might like Ivo, Jago, Asa or Elio? Or maybe Bram, Heath or Lev or Zev?

Coffeeandcakemum · 11/04/2023 22:27

These are some lovely Cornish boys names

Jowan
Lowen
Jago
Ruan
Jory

MaraScottie · 11/04/2023 22:18

Thady

junebirthdaygirl · 11/04/2023 22:15

Nathaniel
Walter
Hugo

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 11/04/2023 22:10

Rumpelstiltskin?

I can't recall anyone at school with this name, or where I have worked either.

whodafucisalice · 11/04/2023 22:07

Arnold
Malcolm
Trevor
Robert
Gerald
Rodney
Bernard
Colin
Edwin
Frank
Harold
Stanley
Isiah
Jericho
Kevin
Perry 🤣
Lorcan
Neil
Victor

CheetahCheetah · 11/04/2023 22:04

Arno
Ezio
Felix
Milo
Jasper
Caspar
Zeid
Zebedee

baconisgoodforme · 11/04/2023 22:03

My son is called Archer,haven't met another yet! Unpopular on Mumsnet but most people we meet like it.

RheneasAndSkarloey · 11/04/2023 22:02

Aneurin - Nye for short
Asa
Ewan
Rowan

Findyourneutralspace · 11/04/2023 22:00

Otis
Jethro
Ziggy
Seamus

redyellowpinkbluegreen · 11/04/2023 21:59

Archer is uncommon but both my husband and I both have cousins who have called their son archer which is so random. One is in Australia and one in England.

So so many Arlos. I love Ezra

MoreHairyThanScary · 11/04/2023 21:58

Amos was my grandads name and I love the nn moss