Why are boy names so hard?! :(

Sure, Jan. 🙄

Who the hell is Binky??

Poor little bastard.

Can you imagine in 70 years time them all sitting round chatting, with these names. Fantastic! It should be made obligatory to have a long beard.

Crew - only heard of this name recently and personally I really like it (this is coming from someone with kids with very 'traditional' names 🙂).

Also like Brodie

Pick a normal, human name for him, and you'll be grand.

When my daughter was younger, I would always meet people in the park with the same name. It's a variation of a name I loved way before I thought about having children, so no regrets.

She is definitely unique (I guess we all think that about our children 😊), and does not care what people think about her individual choices... she's not super wacky, or anything...she just likes things that are not necessarily cool, or some people might think are not grown up enough. (She's early teens)

Also, you've got to think of names in the current context - the name stat things only go back to 1996 - but to pick some names which were "trends" then and probably seemed unusual at the time:

Tyler
Cory
Brett
Jay
Zack/Zach
Jesse

They just seem like perfectly normal names now. Not quite classics, but not remarkable or ridiculous.

Sorry you're right, not twice as popular, and also this is changing - I'm a bit out of date.

But it's true that if you look at the actual percentage/number of children given names in the top positions, there are generally a lot more boys named the top positions than girls, especially if you go to 2016 or earlier.

For example, in 2016, the top two names were Oliver and Olivia. 6623 Olivers, only 5017 Olivias.

It adds up to quite a big difference if you add up all the top 50 names or so. I'm not going to sit and do that now, but I did it for a thread the other day (and didn't save it) I can promise you a lot more boys have a "top 10/20/50" name than girls do, and particularly before 2016 - which if you think about the names that you know as a prospective parent, most of them will be from people older than 7.

I’m not usually a fan of unusual names but for a boy I love the name Indy. Not sure id ever be brave enough to use it though!

@cassy16

"😂😂😂😂 I know so many men that are just dying to be known as the king of elves or named after a wizard"

To be fair, my DH would absolutely love to be known as king of the elves or named after a wizard! He's the biggest lotr geek you've ever come across. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@cassy16 I used to know someone called Rainbow!...middle names was Blue.

How about Cassian? Not one you hear if much so unusual, but a strong male name

I read Oren as Orion. I like Orion.

I don’t mind Bear. Elijah is popular but good still.

I like Wolfie like Binky called her boy

Thing is with Bear or Wolf, how will the lad feel if he's a small, skinny person? He might not care at all and just accept it as who he is, but it might set him up for insecurity or self-consciousness. That would be my concern with a very bold name like that - not that it's unusual, cos that's no problem, but that it kind of denotes a very definite type of image.

Merlin, fox, wolf, maverick….

LOL

What about Micah? Great name.

Elijah is also fab.

I’ve an 8 year old Fox. We liked the name as we were fans of the x files 😂 our other child has a normal name. He loves his name and as yet has no negative comments about it at school. It took a while for our families to get use to it. There so many unusual names as school no one really bothers. A benefit of an unusual name is everyone remembers him. When he was a baby people did do a double take when I said his name but now I just say Fox like the animal. Who cares what people think! We used family names for the middle so if there is a time when he doesn’t like it he could always use those

I have a terry. very common years ago but not now

It seems as though very out there and unusual names are becoming the norm though. I know three kids called Acer and so many Teddy's! I have a very well known but older classic girls name and I can reassure you that I've met very few of my name in my lifetime.

If you want something unique I'd suggest digging into the archives a bit and getting creative that way?

I have a secondary age son with the name Bear. He has always loved his name.

I have another son with Fox as his middle name. For every person who doesn't like unusual names, there's another who loves them.
I think you'll find that whilst there are those who turn their noses up, they fail to realise that actually this is the new wave of names. That they may seem unusual they're more popular than you realise.

When I named my son, there were no other Bears. And then a few years later Cheryl Cole named her son bear and now it's a name I have heard a couple of times.

I know several Elijahs, 2 Orin's and a wolf.

Xx

bear fox and wolf 😫😫😫you just set your kid up for ridicule and sound ridiculous yourself. people will judge. sorry but it’s truth.

I met a baby Odin the other week