Due today, please HELP ME choose a boy's name

Have you chosen yet??

At a push Sam or Rory.

DH should not be allowed to choose - not with that assortment

From joint list, definitely Malachy
otherwise, Cillian or Gabriel

The exact opposite of what jellybeans said!

It's such a personal thing!

As in Bosco hog? Or am I confusing my 70's sitcoms?

I like Sam and Malachy.

literally wetting myself at Bosco!

Cillian...awful
Remy...awful, may get remedial
Rudy...awful
Bosco..shockingly awfu

Noah...love it
Gabriel...girly and 'gay'

Otto is a cool name, as long as it goes with your surname (doesn't with ours).

Remy is sweet, I quite like sam too.

what about Marley ? I heard it the other day and thought it was a fab name for a boy.

how about Soren?

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Inaki would go really well with Zinzi (gorgeous name) -- never apologise for it, especially to her! I like Cosimo as well as Cosmo.

Moling (aka Mo-linn) was an obscure early Irish saint and Bishop of Ferns. Raghnall was an early British regional ruler and patron of the church (pronounced Ranal) transliterated as Ranald. Caoilte is a very old Irish name, probably means 'swift'. It can be pronounced Kweel-cha, Keel-cha, Kweel-teh, Keel-teh.

There's also Cairbre (pr. Carr-i-bra) a name found in legends, Colman (Cull-mawn) related to Colmcille (dove reference), Macdara (mock-dorra), Conleth, Jarlath, Cormac, Phelim (Fay-lum), Manus, Ferdia, Murtagh, Bram, Somhairle (also Sorley) pr. Sawrla, means 'summer wanderer', a reference to Vikings.

I know a Killian, so I don't think it's too unusual. It would be good to find some sort of compromise on the spelling of Tadhg as the sound of it is lovely, but nobody will know how to say it.
Cosmo just reminds me of Jilly Cooper's character Little Cosmo who was a frightful little shit.
Rohan is lovely but I'd pronounce it Rowan as opposed to the Tolkien way (Ro- Han).

Toby -- Like a lot
Silas -- Love
Cosmo -- LOVE
Caspar -- Like a lot

Malachi or Malachy would both be pronounced Malakey in Ireland.

I love Tadhg and Cillian. Would you consider Caoilte (Keelteh)? Moling? Raghnall (Ranald)?

Tadgh or Cillian are lovely

Noah, Malachy and Ruaríe nice.

the rest are awful, sorry

no to inigo (too princess bride)

yes to gabriel

i like silas

I like Noah and Sam.

I like Toby - and Rohan/Rowan a lot.

dizzydixies - no of course not!

That's not what I meant at all. I just think it would be a great shame if DrSkiddale and others are put off using names they love because of the slating the more unusual names get here. And they do get a slating, more often than not IME - although not by everyone of course!

DrSkidaddle, I hope you're doing well today - I wonder if you're perhaps very busy indeed?!
I hope that when you meet your baby, you just know!

It's worth bearing in mind that people are much more polite about a name once you've actually chosen it, and I reckon that many of the nay-sayers can even come round to liking an unusual name once they've got to know the child and got used to the name actually being used.

FWIW, I went into labour not knowing what we would call DS. DP had a long list of - mostly quite unusual or traditional Celtic - names. There was one in particular I had kept coming back to, and although I thought at the time I hadn't made my mind up, when he arrived I just know it would be that name - in retrospect, it's obvious to me that that was always going to be the name we picked, but it didn't seem obvious at the time. I hope that makes some kind of sense!

I found it helped too, to say the names out loud lots, to get used to it. Some I liked on paper, but they didn't trip off the tongue well, others just seemed better to say.

HTH

Christiana we loved Dashiell too but 3 girls put that to rest we had Dashiell, Cassius or Cassian, Cash, Roan or Corin as our boys names

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lowrib, I think you'll find not ALL of use are conservative but thanks

How about ...

Rohan
Oisin
Keiran

Atticus
Kelvin

Have you seen this thread? There are some great names on it.

Oh no, I've just seen your later post

"OK fair dos re Inaki - I love it but know he will be condemned to a lifetime of having to spell/explain his ame (but same with Tadhg and possible Cillian I reckon?)"

They've already done it to you! Don't listen!!

I feel quite strongly that when English people say "you shouldn't use that name no one will know how to spell it / it's hard to pronounce" what they're actually saying by implication (and usually without realising it) is that only English / Anglicised names are acceptable. And if we go down that route, then this really is the death of Welsh / Irish / Scottish culture in action. In other words if we don't use these names for fear the English won't be able to say them, they'll die out, and the English will never get a chance to learn how to say them!

Names like Siobhan, Sian, Sinead and Niamh are becoming more well known by the English, why not Tadhg, Inaki and Ruari next?

I've got a boring sounding but unusual surname and have to spell it EVERY time. It doesn't bother me in the slightest, I think these things only bother you if you let them / like having something to moan about!

Also I have lots of friends with unusual names (some because of different nationalities, some from hippy parents). They ALL say they like their names.

OK, rant over

Tadhg is a great name BTW, I love it!