Can anybody help me find a boys name to fit my ridiculously specific criteria?

[CuppaTeaJanice]

I'm really struggling to find any boys names that I like. I know what type of name I'd like but so far it's remained elusive so I'm hoping you mumsnetters can help me identify a really great name that I'll be happy to give to a son (or a future male cat if this baby is a girl)!

So my criteria for good names are...

1. Not so long as to necessitate use of a nickname in everyday use, but long enough to have a bit of interest to it - so 4, 5 or 6 letters would be ideal.

1. A good mixture of letter types so it looks interesting written down. Dots are good (i, j), tails (q, y, p, g) (also f and z as I write them with tails), although I'd prefer to avoid umlauts etc as I should imagine they'd be a pain!

1. A name that doesn't shout a particular class - so Eton or asbos wouldn't spring to mind when he told you his name.

1. Unusual but not wacky - something you've heard maybe once or twice in this country, although I don't mind if a name is more common abroad. I don't mind a foreign name - some scandinavian names in particular would possibly fit my criteria quite well, but not a name from a continent I have no link with, so not obviously asian (eg Sanjay), African or American. A non British, European name would be fine.

1. Not a noun, especially obvious 'nature' names - so no River, Bracken, Dandelion, that sort of thing. Also not a 'Kre8iv' spelling of a more common name.

1. Can't start with a B, as we have a double surname and the initials wouldn't be good!

I have some possibilities to start you off, but none of them are quite what I'm looking for...
Benji - Like the letter combination, but starts with a B and possibly a bit 'doggy'?
Nijah - Again, like the letters, but it's a girls name, and a bit too similar to Nigel!
Kajri - Possibly a bit feminine?
Alvir - Not sure
Majni - Too much like Armani

Is anybody up to the challenge?!!!!!

twat?

Twat? Do you mean like somebody who posts the same thing twice?

possibly!

no i mean someone who spends a ridiculous amount of time obsessing other something completely meaningless and irrelevant. its just a set of letters, get over yourself.

Meaningless? Really? This is a word that my child will have to use several times a day for potentially nearly a hundred years. A word which will help or hinder his career choices, define him as a person (among many other factors, obviously) and if I make the wrong choice could leave him embarrassed and resenting me. I think that's worth spending a bit of time obsessing over thinking about - don't you?

you can obssess all you like love but there are at least a million things that will determine his career choices and define him as a person before his name will.

what will without doubt completely embarrass him is when he comes across a thread about the mother who obssessed about whether or not a babies name had "a good mixture of letter types so it looks interesting written down" ... and realising it was his mother...

sorry but you either like the name or you dont. if you think it will determine your childs's destiny, then i think you will probably be sorely disapointed.

Blimey, have to stick up for cuppateajanice, Surely this is a light hearted thread where if someone wants to obsess about the name of there child then they have every right to (We all do it secretly, don't we?).
herhonesty sounds a little bit like a bitch, and a total loser for feeling the need to read a thread that will piss her off so much she has to call someone a twat!!!

This is only a thread!!! Get heated about things that really matter!!

Thanks bluebeach - it does seem odd that somebody would be reading a name thread if names are so unimportant!!

'sorry but you either like the name or you dont' - well that's kind of the point of this thread, I don't like any boys names, not enough to be really enthusiastic about using, anyway. That's why I started a thread looking for suggestions, and surely it's better to give people an idea of the type of names I'm looking for, even if it might seem a little over the top with detail!! People have come up with some great suggestions, and if I'd just asked for boys names without indicating my taste, people would have wasted their time writing names that I was bound to hate.

I find it astounding that people get so het up about other people's name choices or ideas - how bizarre. At least you give enough of a shit about your upcoming child to put some thought into his name, after all this is just the first of many important decisions and choices to come and, while I am not advocating pushy parents, I'd much rather a child had a parent like you who thinks and cares about him and his life, (even at the risk of over-obsessing sometimes which I think all pregnant women are guilty of at times ), than parents who don't give a shit about him.

Ezra ?

Jago, Idris, Soren, Magnus, Mungo,

Foreign names I love include Malachi,Dmitri and Marek.

My OH suggested Diego which is apparently a Spanish version of James (Don't tell me I'm wrong because if this isn't true it's my book that's wrong not me). I decided against it because I immediately thought of the sabertooth tiger in Ice Age but then I watch too many cartoons.

I liked the suggestion of Jonah

Aki
Kenta
Kaito

william
stefan
kevin
james

I only read the first three pages then was so I had to post - I have read loads of Charlie and Lola books but never realised that Soren Lorenson was imaginary!

I really like Soren though, it's pretty but masculine if that makes any sense? Stefan as suggested above is nice too.

cuppateajanice I know what you mean about not liking any names, I was the same with girl's names and of course our baby is a girl! If it's any help, I agonised, consulted lists, read many a thread on here, flicked through all my favourite books, scoured the family trees, and we ended up naming her the very first name we thought of! It grew and grew on me through the pregnancy and my OH really liked it. Just a thought, not to discount the first couple of things that came into your head, maybe they're right...

Just to say nihal is also a girls Turkish name

Aydin. It's also turkish and pronounced eye dun.

I think someone has said aneurin which is welsh and can be nye for short,

Ieuan so welsh I think pronounced yi an but someone else will know

Elijah

ezra

ezekiel