Boys names - back to the drawing board!

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It feels like we're going around in circles and we have resigned ourselves to the fact that we won't have chosen for certain before the birth.
We do however have our final shortlist of five names and so I thought I'd see what all of you lovely people think :)

Fergus
Jasper
Ezekiel
Sidney
Titus

The middle name will probably be Henry, William, George or James, depending on which goes best with the first name we choose.

So, which is best??

Fergus.

Fergus and Jasper are good. Sidney is a bit more out there but I think I quite like it. The others are too out there. Although perhaps Ezekiel would be ok if nickname Zeke was used

Zeke is quite cool, although Ezekiel is quite far out there. You'd need to live in the right sort of place / be in quite a quirky family to carry it off I think.

Our family dog was called Titus, to me it belongs in the cool names you can call your dog but not your child category.

I like Sid because of Six Dinner Sid (probably all time favourite book we read to the children when they were small). But I do only know female Syds (well only one so not very representative!).

Having said that a shortlist of five seems perfectly respectable, and I'd wait and see which one grabs you most when your ds is born.

Combos that sound best I think are:

Fergus James/George
Jasper William
Ezekiel James/Henry
Sidney George/James/William
Titus James/George

Don't pick Jasper! Coz I picked that thinking it's be rare/unusual and now we know of 6 in this area

On your list I like Jasper Fergus and Sidney (he'll get called Sid though which makes me think of the british gas advert (Don't forget to tell Sid).

Btw Jasper doesn't mean wasp and isn't a dog's name It means precious treasure (or variations on this depending on where you look.

www.babyhold.com/list/American_Baby_Names/Jasper/details/

I just check Fergus on the above site and it says it means 'manly'. So I think you need to look at your baby and see what suits him. I had ds's name in mind before he was born, but until I looked at him I didn't give him his name as I wanted to be sure it was right for him IYKWIM.

Wasps are known as Jaspers where I grew up - I never thought that was a meaning of Jasper though.

Sidney is a great name (I wanted sidney or stanley but we ended up with a Lucy instead!)

Wasps are sometimes called Jasper because of their colour,aren´t they?

Why, diddl? Yellow?

I know in Italy the word for wasp is Vespa - I sort of assumed it was because of that.

Because they are similar to yellow jasper?

Happy to be corrected if it´s not so.

Thanks so much for all of the feedback! I hadn't thought about the girlification of Sidney so that's definitely worth bearning in mind and it's interesting to hear which of the names seem more 'out there' to different people.

DH really loves Ezekiel and whilst I LIKE it and am very familiar with the name, I realise it's quite an odd name to a lot of people.

I think I prefer Fergus which was our original choice... hmmmm...

Oh, go for it!

Like Fergus James.
Or Fergus William.
Or Fergus George!