Boys name to go with Spike

[Yarnie]

So. DS' name is Spike and DC2 will be arriving next year. We had a very tough time finding boys names we liked first time round, so thought we'd better get started on finding another boys name, although gender is currently unknown.

I was thinking of going with the Comedians of the 50s/60s theme (Lenny, Woody, Sid), but couldn't find anything I liked. Also not sure "themes" is the best way to go when naming a baby!

Spike is obviously quite a punchy name and I want DC2's name to be able to hold it's own.

Names ending in an "O" sound are out as they sound terrible with our surname.

I've spent two weeks idly browsing names and not found ONE that I liked .

This is going to be tough.

Anything spring to mind?

When I saw Spike, I immediately thought Spike Lee or Spike Jonze so what about other film directors/influential film people?

Errol (Morris)
Quentin (Tarantino)
Walter (Salles)
Wes (Anderson)
Lars (von Trier)
Gus (van Sant)
Stanley (Kubrick)
Alfred (Hitchcock)
Busby (Berkeley)
Clint (Eastwood)
Buster (Keaton)

HTH!

(God you can tell I am married to a film buff can't you!)

Ooo, Mental, that's a rich seam of names. Thanks! I will get Googling. I do like Stanley very much, but a good friend has named her son it, so it's off limits.

Ooh thought of some more...

Francis (Ford Coppola)
Elmer (Bernstein)
Sidney (Lumet)
Gene (Kelly)

Blaze? sounds nice with Spike.

I think Iggy would be just dandy!

What was the leader of the Lib Dems called a few years ago?

Was it something like Mezies but you said it Ming?

That's what I thought of anyway.

Menzies - but pronounces 'Mingus', I think.

Buddy
Sonny?

Rex
Digby
Toby
Bigas

Titus

Troy

Thor god of thunder

ooh Troy is a good one. Goes well with Spike.

Draven?

Magnus
Cassius
A short name like Ray, Joe, Jim, Bob, Reg, Alf?

I love Iggy too and Rex which were mentioned earlier

Poor Spike, and now you are seeking to further compound your chav credentials.

I've got an Iggy! He is Isaac, but generally known as either Ikey (bad with Spike, obv) or Iggy.

is that necessary phren? she certainly doesn't look like a chav and so what if she is? people can use whatever name they like can't they? people think my dd's name is 'chavvy' or 'ghetto'.... its actually biblical.

Nice, Phren

Liking Iggy, thats fab.

I'm liking Lingus at the moment.

The more I say it over, the more I like the sound of Iggy and Spike (or Spike and Iggy!)

How lovely phren

I do love Iggy

oh and your DS IS a (gorgeous) Spike! it so suits him!

Clyde
Linden
Sorren
Odin
Darragh

Agree - Spike is absolutely gorgeous from your pics.

What about

Rocky
Cosmo

I really like those names (but my two ds's are named very traditionally, so these are alter-ego names I'd choose in a parallel universe)

oooh sorry, just seen names ending in 'o' are out - ignore my Cosmo suggestion.

Spike is too eccentric to be chav. It's not following any trend. Sorry for using the c word, I didn't bring it up though.