Boys names, 'normal' please.

[DetectivePotato]

I am pregnant with DC2. I have a DS and we have used our boys name. Really struggling with another.

I like Harry, DH isn't quite so sure but I may be able to persuade him.

There are names that are ok but I don't love them.

Can't have names in the family (according to DH) so out is Daniel, Callum, Matthew, Sam, James. All names that I like!

I like traditional 'normal' names. None of this Benedict/Cassius stuff (appologies to anyone who likes these or who has named their DS's these names but they are just not for me).

I also don't care how common it is. If I like it, I will use it (apart from Jack, far too many).

Thomas
Samuel if you use the full version?
Joseph
Alexander
William

My best friends DS is called Samuel, which I'm gutted as it is my favourite boys name. I also have a few female friends called Sam too so its definitely out.

Thomas, Alexander and William are on my list of likes but not love. Maybe I need to keep thinking so one can grow on me.

"None of this Benedict/Cassius stuff " ???

Michael
David
George
Edward
Roy
Paul
Howard
Harold
John \ Jonathan
Henry
Joseph
Richard
Philip
Nicholas
Benjamin
Andrew
Charles
Robert
Arthur
Oscar
Alfred
Lee
Leo
Francis

Samuel is a lovely name.

Joshua
Ben
George
Henry
Jake
Edward

Personally I love Cassius and DD2 would've been called it had she had been a boy. Each to their own

Nathaniel James is my favourite ever boys name - please use it as it looks like I am destined to only ever produce lovely daughters.

Other thoughts-

Peter
Dylan
Edward
Jacob
Joshua
Noah
Henry

Sirboobalot, love how you managed to slip 'Roy' in amongst a list of relatively normal names

Squeezy, its a very traditional name, actually... 19th most common Victorian boys name, apparently!

Sorry, terrible syntax there...

James
Quentin
William
John
Edward
Michael

Harry and Samuel are nice. How about Adam?

What's DS1 called (or first letter, if you don't want to give whole name)?

Christopher
Benjamin
Robin
Peter
Justin
Paul
Oliver
Simon
Austin -- or is even that too Cassius-like?
Anthony
David
Gregory

I didn't know Benedict wasn't a normal name.

What about Norman? That's almost completely normal.

Good links on here

Patrick
Tim
Alistair

Depends on what is 'normal' for your area and generation, though. I mean, I went to school with two Frasers, a Bentley (luckily not Fraser's brother), two Malcolms, a (male) Kim and a Heath. Seemed pretty normal at the time.

I didn't realise Benedict and Cassius weren't normal either! Hey ho, my bump, if it is a boy will be an abnormal Benedict! Hurrah for non-normal!!

I wasn't aware that Benedict wasn't a 'normal' name either!

And Roy - Eeew. It's my Dad's name and I'd love to do the nice thing and include it DC4's name somewhere, but really, I can't. I was looking at the ONS 2008 boys' names list last night and was amaed to see there were 6 (or was it 8?) born that year.

Perhaps by 'normal' the OP meant 'English traditional'? Which Cassius (a fab name imo) isn't but Benedict is. That's the way I read it, anyway.

Marcus, Dominic, Peter.

All normal, all a bit of a change from Harry.

Peter is a lovely underused name.

As is David.

Adam
Benjamin
Cristopher
David
Edward
Fred/Freddie/Fredrick
Gareth
Henry
Ian
Joshua
Keiron
Louis/Lewis
Michael
Nicholas
Peter
Quintin
Robert
Steven/Stephen
Toby
William

Bit of a mix but just naming all the boy's I rememeber from school.

Not sure I can see anything 'abnormal' about Ben either, but hey ho.

These all seem like solid, English traditional names:

Andrew
Thomas
Quentin
Michael
Stephen
Edward
Henry
Daniel
Christopher

Sebastian?

Hugh
Isaac
Austin
Nathan
Edmund

i like austin and issac!

Peter
Andrew
Gary/Gareth
David
Ben
Jake
Jamie
Ryan
Keiran
Innes
Gordon
David
Logan
Iain
Niaill

See, round about here any child called Benedict/Cassius/Marcus/Quentin etc. would get a daily kicking. You might as well stick a "Punch Me" sign on his back and a note saying that "my mummy doesn't love me." So, I can see where the OP is coming from.

yea i agree i doesnt think she means to say isnt normal, its just not normal to what she hears or where she lives, as ive never heard of the names benedict or cassius in my life until coming onto this site.
i do like harry, detective

joshua
jake
conner
oliver
harvey
ethan
matthew

haha cant think of anymore im terrible with boys names