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Conservative but out there boy name?!

140 replies

HiddenInCubeOfCheese · 10/05/2025 11:27

So, I’m having a boy. Names-wise, I.Did.Not.Prepare.For.This.

For a girl, I would have punted Céline, Margot, Audrey, Vivienne (Vivi), Anaïs, Genevieve, Bridget etc to DH.

My own name is rare but not a weird name, so I’ve always liked that - people have heard of it, but don’t necessarily know someone else with it.

I’d like a name that was strong, a bit zhuzh-y with a sprinkle of eccentric but also fine for a CEO to be called! Does it exist?

This is our first. We have a double-barrelled aggregate four syllable surname, but I’d pick a vanilla-ish middle name so the whole name wasn’t totally nuts.

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HiddenInCubeOfCheese · 16/05/2025 08:24

Scottyme · 16/05/2025 07:21

Is this a serious post or you on the wine??

a little bit cunty?? That’s seriously your goal for your child?

forget what your calling him I pray for his sake his a strong character with you as his mother!

I don’t think you understand the slang

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ViaRia01 · 16/05/2025 07:33

I like Kit, short for Christopher apparently but I like it as it is.

Blingismything · 16/05/2025 07:30

Casper
Jasper
Giles
Tristram
Torquil
Crispin
Rufus
Alfred
Jeremiah
Timothy
Francis

stample · 16/05/2025 07:25

MY Immediate thought was Jasper or Caspian
others are
Lucien
Eduardo
Donald
Bernard
Simon
Morgan

Scottyme · 16/05/2025 07:21

HiddenInCubeOfCheese · 10/05/2025 14:51

Lots of suggestions that have made my Notes app.

“a little bit cunty”, a little bit rakish, but otherwise fabulous manners and a well-read gent is my goal…

Is this a serious post or you on the wine??

a little bit cunty?? That’s seriously your goal for your child?

forget what your calling him I pray for his sake his a strong character with you as his mother!

user1492757084 · 12/05/2025 15:54

Basil
Roland
Gregory
Gillon
Augustus
Gough
Zelman
Atlas

uncomfortablydumb60 · 11/05/2025 01:30

Beckett
Heath

Popquorn · 10/05/2025 23:24

Giles
Hugo
Arthur
Julien
Caspar

JoyousPinkPeer · 10/05/2025 23:22

Hugo
Monty
Louis

Keepingthingsinteresting · 10/05/2025 23:09

How about Ruairi, people will have heard of it but probably not met one, and certainly not with the Gaelic spelling. Or maybe Finian, nick name Fin

Reddelilah · 10/05/2025 22:46

yoshiblue · 10/05/2025 22:33

Francois Holland?

François is the male version

Frostynoman · 10/05/2025 22:35

Reginald

yoshiblue · 10/05/2025 22:33

Reddelilah · 10/05/2025 21:30

Françoise is a female name

Francois Holland?

mummysmagicmedicine · 10/05/2025 22:19

This is my taste too!! i find boys names SO hard sometimes but have left you a few i like.

Montgomery
Albert (but lots of Albie’s where i am)
Hector
Tristan
Rafferty
Hugo
Blake
Austin
Rocco
Raphael
Kit
Ralph
Cassius
Caspian
Tobias
Felix
Brooks
Otis
Wilfred
Ripley
Sebastian
Sullivan
Fergus
August
Clement
Magnus
Roscoe
Atticus
Rupert
Finnick
Nate
Finn

BertSymptom · 10/05/2025 21:54

HiddenInCubeOfCheese · 10/05/2025 11:40

Actually, yeah, should have called the thread that: “boy names with a touch of the snobby whimsy!”

“A touch of the snobby whimsy” is the perfect way to describe my naming style so thank you for that.

Anyway had DD had been a boy I’m 99% sure she’d have been a Lucian (pronounced the American way 😬).

I do have a real soft spot for others on this thread like Cosmo, Rupert, Silas, Nathaniel, Gabriel and Linus.

Weirdly someone’s suggested Isidore upthread and we went for the female version for DD. I guess I do like a touch of the snobby whimsy!

Ikeameatballs · 10/05/2025 21:53

Azriel
Bertie
Cuthbert
Colm
Digby
Darwin
Edgar
Eddison
Felix
Guy
Gus
Hector
Idris
Jago
Killian
Laurence
Magnus
Nico
Orlando
Peter
Percy
Quentin
Quinn
Rickard
Solomon
Thaddeus
U
Vaughan
Wilbur
Xavier
Zander

PurpleReindeer2 · 10/05/2025 21:43

Seren
Levi
Able
Amos
Asher
Caleb
Elijah
Silas
Ellis
Otis

Nightjar33 · 10/05/2025 21:39

Some of these names are seriously horrible to lumber a child with, hope you decide on something nice.
one of my grandsons is called Callum but chooses his middle name of Ezra 🤣

Reddelilah · 10/05/2025 21:30

yoshiblue · 10/05/2025 19:51

I love Francoise going on the French theme. We have a Florian here ❤️

Françoise is a female name

Geranium1984 · 10/05/2025 21:14

Digby

underthelights · 10/05/2025 20:57

Heathcliff
Alexander
Monty
Elliot

SemmaLina · 10/05/2025 20:46

Petroc
Sebastian ( Bassy )
Celt

Messymumm · 10/05/2025 20:44

How about Ranulph? Don’t think it’s been suggested yet

Youvebeenframed · 10/05/2025 20:40

Hell fire there are some seriously twatty names on this thread 🥴…. Please tell me they’re taking the piss😳
Pereguine and Ichabod!!! To name just 2 😂😂😂🤯

Itwasacceptableinthe80zz · 10/05/2025 20:32

Trying to avoid repetition but haven’t seen:
Claude
Rex
Conrad
Orville
Lucien