HELP! Unique boys names!

[Claudius123]

I absolutely love the name Reuben but my friends little boy has this name :( Is there anything similar anyone can think of? I quite like Arlo but i'm hearing it a lot now too. I find out what I'm having in a few weeks and if its a boy i'm totally stumped! I already have a little girl, i have so many girls names to use but not one for a boy!

Seth
Amos
Gabriel
Rafi

Why is unique your priority? Find a name you both like and a person can live with and go with that? Ok I understand not wanting the same as your friend/relation but odds are your child is not going to be the only one with any particular name no matter what you choose.

@RuggerHug unique isn't my priority, i just haven't liked anything i have heard as of yet. I didn't know what we were having the first time, if it was a boy we literally didn't have one name we were settled on.

If you like Reuben then use it, what's the problem?

My DS has a fairly common name but an unusual nickname. Is that something you’d consider?

Similar style to Reuben

Eben
Simeon
Noam
Icarus
Enoch
Micah

Rufus

Colin. Gary. Norman.

Unless you're baby is a 50 year old man, they are all unique.

Reuben was a name we had considered
Also liked Harrison, Jackson, Logan, Jaden, Jenson

Don’t use Reuben if your friends child is already called it, it is not ok to use the same name as your friends child despite what people on mn say.

Nico
Fergus
Ludo
Rollo

There are lots of reubens around at the moment....it’s a really nice name and that wouldn’t stop me using it if I loved it.

John.

yogurt

Or Keith.

@sequinedtortoise surely those are dogs names?

How about Ivo or Roman?

Don’t use Reuben if your friends child is already called it, it is not ok to use the same name as your friends child despite what people on mn say

I don't think that's true. If you want to use a name it's irrelevant if a child's friend already has the name, surely?

I think if you’ve always liked Rueben but your friend went first you should use it. If you only realised you liked it after her Rueben was born you shouldn’t.

Sooo

Ethan
Finn
Bram
Noah
Thomas
Max
Owen

Rowan?

Will you regret not using Reuben if you and your friend drift apart?

It’s weird and plain rude to use the same name as a friend or family members child. Pick your own, I mean there’s millions to choose from . Only on mn would people think this was ok.

Gary

I am always surprised how everyone wants so much to be different, just not quite enough to think up this unique name themselves .

Balonz?

Oh come on. SOMEONE had to say it.

Jago
Ezra