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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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Araminta1003 · 10/05/2025 11:46

Conrad, Anton, Leopold etc

Araminta1003 · 10/05/2025 11:46

Old German names usually do it for boys. Florian, Wolfgang, Wilhelm, Tobias, Tristram, Hans, Carl, Bruno…

PrincessHoneysuckle · 10/05/2025 11:45

Oakley

RosesAndHellebores · 10/05/2025 11:44

Gawain
Merlin
Gulliver
Hector
Florian
Horatio
Magnus
Degory
Ambrose
Crispin

BestIsWest · 10/05/2025 11:43

Peregrine.

NuffSaidSam · 10/05/2025 11:42

Nathaniel/Nate
Atticus
Hugh
Magnus
Horatio
Percy
Humphrey
Blaise
Wilbur
Edwin

Mumofgirls2017 · 10/05/2025 11:40

So I’ll go outside top 100:

clement
cedric
leopold
ernest
ambrose
rafe
montague
phineas
rufus
silas
roscoe
edmund
ludovic
vincent

HiddenInCubeOfCheese · 10/05/2025 11:40

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

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Ellmau · 10/05/2025 11:39

Ralph
Raphael
Anselm
Jasper
Jocelyn
Geraint
Ludovic
Felix
Miles
Milo
Hugo
Hugh
Athelstan
Edgar
Edmund
Piers
Peregrine
Percival
Gawain
Lancelot
Cedric
Ferdinand
Corin

HiddenInCubeOfCheese · 10/05/2025 11:39

Loving Raphael, Caspar, Rollo, Cosmo

BFF has a Zack, so can’t do Zachary.

We’re not remotely French, guess I just identify with a touch of the snobby whimsy! I do speak French but DH wouldn’t be a fan of an overtly French name 😔

Thank you for the suggestions so far!

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TeenToTwenties · 10/05/2025 11:37

Zachary.

LivingLaVidaBabyShower · 10/05/2025 11:34

I've gone french vibes as that how your girls names skew

Tristan
Claude
Raphael
Antoine
Jules
Leon
Laurent

Readytohealnow · 10/05/2025 11:33

Alastair
Felix
You seem to like French names for girls. Perhaps a French boy name?

ItsCalledAConversation · 10/05/2025 11:31

Jago
Jasper
Alistair
Rupert
Rollo
Cosmo
Montague (Monty)

Borracha · 10/05/2025 11:30

I have a Caspar which I love. It’s unusual enough that we’ve only met one or two others but it’s not weird enough for anyone to comment on.