Right come on then Mumsnetters, find a name for my son (shock)

Matthew !

This has been eye-opening reading ladies

Sk, Yes, St. Matt's is, apparently, a hellish place, way over crowded and one of the most violent schools in Scotland My DS1 did a couple of debates there, just before he left school and couldn't really believe how small it was considering that it is the only RC secondary in the LA. They have to take pupils from the whole of North AYrshire, all the way LArgs, West Kilbride et. all, to Glengarnock and beyond and right to Springside on the other side. Shocking really and very short sighted. That's NAC for you. To be honest, it's not just St. Matt.'s, DS1 was at school when our local secondary was rebuilt. The roll was over 1500 pupils at the time and expected to grow, so they designed the new build to hold 1200! DS1 couldn't wait to get away, they don't even have an assembly hall or anywhere to have concerts/prizegivings/parents' nights anymore and the senior common rooms are just a corner of the "atrium" where lunch is served etc. that has been boxed off with lockers.

Our little corner of the NEw TOwn is developing into a little corridor town for the city as well. You can drive from here in less than 30minutes, but there is a huge new development of nice, new build expensive houses specially aimed at commuters from Glasgow, just along the road a bit, where the council have built a handful of new houses. SO our little estate is quite rapidly turning into just another dumping ground for all the difficult people. You know the theory sbout putting them in nice areas to encourage them to behave. Take it from me, it doesn't work! The new place isn't much better to be honest, it's never out the local news because the home owners (mostly from Glasgow) can't tolerate the council house tenants and the behaviour of local Neds. I would love to get away from here to be honest, I have even asked OH if we could apply to GHA for a house because he works in GLasgow, but we have such strong ties here with the things the kids do, my church work and stuff that he's not keen. Also, there is the "better the devil you know" thing going on.

Your names are lovely, by the way. I really like Matthew, also Logan, obviously, but maybe not if you live next door to a street named Logan. You'd be struggling to call a wee boy Marcus here, to be honest, but it's a good name.

Did anyone say Kelvin or Calvin?

Lockets, quite often I wish that we didn't have to live here, really. I wouldn't worry about your DS coming here to visit, I don't think that many people ever do, it's not exactly a tourist hot spot .

Sk, I don't have any more name suggestions, really, but thought you might be interested in knowing this scary little tidbit. Did you go the the RC school near the three towns, St. Mick's? THis has been closed and replaced by one of those new PPP schools (as has our local secondary) and merged with St Andrew's. THe new build is in Saltcoats. So now anyone from anywhere in the LA who wants an RC education has to travel even further because there is only the one school.

I'm glad that things aren't quite so bad where you are, now. To be honest, in the little pocket where I am, things are better than anywhere else that I have lived here, but that's only in this particular scheme and, sadly, things are changing. The council used to try and keep this bit "nice" so that they could use it for publicity, but now that they have newer, shinier places to boast about, round here is going the same way as everywhere else. The police are in this street at least 4 times a week, now, and my neighbour's kids have been threatened with a "ripping" several times because, in part, they have RC names, even though they are completely non practicing and I don't know if they are actually RC or not. Lovely new neighbours are just looking for something to cause trouble about.

I can't remember if anyone has mentioned Ethan or Javan, they are quite nice names, so is Jared.

Robert?

A traditional yet currently underused name IMO

so sweetkitty, do you ahve any kind of shortlist yet?

Has anyone suggested John?

Ashton?
Leighton?
Leland?

Samuel?

Is it too late to throw Jerome into the hat?

See that Matthew is on your list and Adam has been dismissed.

Have not read through the thread so sorry if these have been discounted

Matthew
Scott (only one syllable)
Adam

William nn Billy
Edward nn Eddie

Mark's a good strong nam e

What about Morgan? Don't think it's been suggested yet! My ds is called this - it's a bit different, not too common but not too unusual, not too posh and hasn't got any religious connections!

Right, Sk, know where you are now. You have to be as careful there as you do here. I really don't envy you, at all. Your girls' names are beautiful and not obvious, iyswim, it can be much harder for boys. There are very few RC families here, as you know, and most of the boys that I know seem to be named things like John, Mark, Luke and MArtin. to be honest. However, most people that I know try and keep their faith very quiet.
There used to be a couple of little girls at school with my DD and the only person that knew they were RC, apart from the head teacher and class teacher, was me, because they came to DD's Girls' Brigade and their mum wanted to know what to do at CoS services .
I can understand why other people don't quite "get it" though. I really think that if you haven't lived somewhere like this, you can't really understand what it's like. My first husband was Northern Irish protestant and even though he was completely non practicing, the idea of having a son called Sean was just too much for him and his old dad went loopy! A bit like me when OH suggested Piers

What about Daniel (I went to school with one of those, although he was never called that) or David. I can't remember if they've been mentioned. I love Logan, one of my boys is called Logan ( really wanted Lachlann or Lorcan but you see the problem.)