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Brother for Auden

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aquagrace · 17/08/2023 08:34

Baby is 2 weeks and still nameless. Like names that are unusual but not tooooooo pretentious. Looking at Chester, Stellan, Henry but not convinced. I’d like something as unusual as Auden but not as long as Ignatius, for examples. I’ve spent hours and hours researching - what have I missed?

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Banned4life · 31/08/2023 19:41

Reid, Nye or Alaric

KayEmAy · 31/08/2023 18:44

Oooh I feel like these are either going to be dead on or a complete miss haha

Personal favorite: Auden and Bellamy

While on the longer side, I feel like it just rolls off the tongue, and there is always Bell as a nickname. :)

Other ideas:

Auden and Perry

Auden and Asa

Auden and Sander

Auden and Conrad

Auden and Hale

Auden and Rhodes

Auden and Monty (Montgomery)

Auden and Baylor

Auden and Hawthorne nn Huck or Hawk

Auden and Lance

Auden and Ford (Sanford/Bradford ect)

Auden and Palmer

Auden and Leopold

Auden and Taylor

Auden and Sterling

Auden and Patrick

Auden and Blaine

Auden and Garrett

Auden and Stefan

Auden and Enoch

Auden and Jensen

Auden and Wells (on it's own or for Maxwell)

Auden and Finnick

Auden and Connell

Auden and Forrest

Auden and Alaric (I know it's longer but I love it on it's own and with Auden so much lol)

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aquagrace · 31/08/2023 08:22

Thank you so much everyone. I’ve read all these suggestions over and over. Still no closer but hoping to just commit to something this weekend! Much appreciated

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Daisybuttercup12345 · 24/08/2023 22:19

Clifford
Clive
Travis
Trey
Kaiden
Terry
Lance
Brenton
Brett
Wesley
Dexter
Eric
Frank
Quinn
Quinton
Jago
Perry
Howard
Luke
Vincent
Otis
Ray
Wayne
Silas
Gabe
Ian
Euan
Jarvis

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 20/08/2023 12:47

HeyYouWithTheSadFace · 20/08/2023 10:19

Arden

Brothers named Auden and Arden?

TotalOverhaul · 20/08/2023 11:51

Eliot
Owen
Lewis
Thomas
Wilfred
Clive
Rupert
Francis/Frank
Rafe

VenusClapTrap · 20/08/2023 11:43

Edgar
Kim
Dickon
Laurie

HeyYouWithTheSadFace · 20/08/2023 10:19

Arden

Twazique · 19/08/2023 11:36

Bevan

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 19/08/2023 10:40

Love Bram as a diminutive for Abraham.

RaidFlySpray · 19/08/2023 10:15

MadNads · 18/08/2023 13:20

And Chester the Molester https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesterthee_Molester

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This is what came to mind for me too. Even if it's not that well known, enough people know of it to put me off the name!

What about Bram?

CastleTower · 19/08/2023 10:08

Idris
Oswald

inappropriateraspberry · 19/08/2023 05:07

Byron
Keats
Eliot
Wordsworth
Yeats
Blake
Milton
Barrett
Homer
Hardy
Brontë
Austen

DramaAlpaca · 19/08/2023 01:21

Austin

RitzyMcFitzy · 19/08/2023 01:17

Serge

CallieQ · 18/08/2023 23:57

Eliot
Larkin

BrokenMantra · 18/08/2023 23:26

Hector or Isidore

Bouledeneige · 18/08/2023 23:00

By the way I've not really heard Auden but I like it. If that's right and it's not Aidan my suggestions thinking about the combination of names:

Cole
Drew
Finn
Gabriel
Ross
Sebastian
Tobias

SequinsandStiIettos · 18/08/2023 15:10

No to Chester because your firstborn's namesake W. H. Auden had a lover called Chester.
Hugh is the poet's middle name so no to that.

Eliot works for me, as it is another 20th century poet's surname but as it veers from the usual spelling will cause problems.

So I'd go with the very first answer you got. Byron is lovely.

M00nknight · 18/08/2023 15:01

Poe.. lol please do not name your child after a teletubby. Your mental pokodau 😆

Pocodaku · 18/08/2023 14:57

Eliot
Gatsby
Beckett
Poe

MoonlightDreamer · 18/08/2023 14:54

What about Ardan ?
Auden and Ardan

Whatsthepoint1234 · 18/08/2023 14:37

I’ve just looked at the article and it’s a comic book so even more obscure. I wouldn’t worry about it OP. I think people are more likely to bring up the city than a comic from the 70s/80s.

Whatsthepoint1234 · 18/08/2023 14:36

I don’t think Chester the molestor is widely known at all tbh, if you Google any name with ‘murderer’ or ‘sex offender’ after it most names will come up with something. I just did it with my relatively unusual name and found two murderers who share it. I never even knew and nobody has ever mentioned it to me! The thing that would put me off Chester is the association with the city, it feels like naming your kid Cambridge or Chelmsford.

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 18/08/2023 13:23

MadNads · 18/08/2023 13:20

And Chester the Molester https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesterthee_Molester

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I have literally never heard of this. Is it widely known?