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What boy names would you use if you were bold enough?

196 replies

TheNameNerd · 07/11/2025 19:20

Which unusual or old fashioned boy names would you use if you were given free rein and no negative judgement was allowed? (I’ll make another thread for girls names)

I love Tycho and Darwin.

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UninitendedShark · 08/11/2025 09:18

pinkspectacleframes · 07/11/2025 19:32

Basil! I love it!

Also Basil.

and Florian

elviswhorley · 08/11/2025 08:32

Agamemnon
Hercules

I considered these names but had a girl. Considered them as middle names.

ChocolateCinderToffee · 08/11/2025 08:26

Raoul, Geoffrey, Norbert.

Eenameenadeeka · 08/11/2025 08:06

I would have named my son Wilbur, but my husband wouldn't let me haha. I also liked Benedict, Edgar and Edmund.

Mumofgirls2017 · 08/11/2025 08:01

I also love Darwin!

quentin
sterling
caspian
cosmo
everest
merlin
apollo
ambrose
finch
evander

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TheNameNerd · 08/11/2025 07:54

goldenautumnleaves25 · 08/11/2025 06:58

Nathaniel, Hugo, casper, Caspian, Tristan , Sebastian, Florian are very common around here. What on earth are “normal” names if these are not????

Names vary by area though. Names that are common in some parts of the UK can be relatively rare in others. Those aren’t names that I hear much in my area for example other than the occasional Hugo.

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WinterPalace · 08/11/2025 07:44

MaxJLHardy · 08/11/2025 00:28

Melchior, Lysander or Steadfast

Steadfast is exactly the sort of name I came into this thread to see - it's fantastic!

chunkyBoo · 08/11/2025 07:26

Hunter
lucien
jasper
Tate

goldenautumnleaves25 · 08/11/2025 06:58

Nathaniel, Hugo, casper, Caspian, Tristan , Sebastian, Florian are very common around here. What on earth are “normal” names if these are not????

notaweddingdress · 08/11/2025 06:39

Dontpresstoohard · 07/11/2025 20:02

Inigo
Nathaniel

We went for Inigo as a middle name because we weren’t quite brave enough

3flyingducksarrive · 08/11/2025 03:41

4 of the names we used have been mentioned already.

I liked Arkady, we have a Eastern European surname so it would have worked fine.

coxesorangepippin · 08/11/2025 01:32

Quentin

Kaspar

Lysander

Stoker

vintageboymum · 08/11/2025 01:25

Done2much · 07/11/2025 19:21

Caspian

I have a Caspian! I'm so glad you like it. It suits him!

Leavesfalling · 08/11/2025 00:34

PastaAllaNorma · 07/11/2025 22:05

Malachai

I've always liked it but there's no way we could have used it. I like how it looks written down and how it feels in my mouth to say it.
(I love 'agapanthus' for the same reason)

Children of the Corn!! 🙈😱😱😱

TheNinjaWife · 08/11/2025 00:33

Angel
Cosmo
A poster mentioned indigo, that’s a great name too.

Leavesfalling · 08/11/2025 00:32

SalmonOnFinnCrisp · 07/11/2025 19:29

All the roman names: Octavian Aurelius Cato Caecilius (who est in horto) 🤣

I just love pretty much all of them

Quintus
Grumio (est in culina)

MaxJLHardy · 08/11/2025 00:28

Melchior, Lysander or Steadfast

Doyouknowdanieltiger · 07/11/2025 23:31

Brent

I adore the name.

Weligama · 07/11/2025 23:31

Mondaytuesdayhappydays · 07/11/2025 23:26

Malachie- common on my round-
W/C mixed race families
and the
Poshos and middle class lot too
and the evangelicals /JHW’s

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Malachy (Mal) is also a common enough Irish name - he was 1st Archbishop of Armagh in 1100’s.

Mondaytuesdayhappydays · 07/11/2025 23:26

PastaAllaNorma · 07/11/2025 22:05

Malachai

I've always liked it but there's no way we could have used it. I like how it looks written down and how it feels in my mouth to say it.
(I love 'agapanthus' for the same reason)

Malachie- common on my round-
W/C mixed race families
and the
Poshos and middle class lot too
and the evangelicals /JHW’s

Ydkiml · 07/11/2025 23:18

Maximus .
Dane .
Rox .
Toben .
Reed .
Bren .

Bam7659 · 07/11/2025 22:51

Balthazar

Wowsersbrowsers · 07/11/2025 22:50

Ivor or Osian

One of my children's names has been mentioned and it did get some eyebrow raises

fruitofthenight · 07/11/2025 22:38

Quilliam

OtherS · 07/11/2025 22:35

Iago. Bloody annoyed with Shakespeare for ruining that one.