Advice on boys and girls names. Is the boy name plain silly?

[Namingdilemmasagain]

Hello,

Baby due any day now.

We think we will go for Aoife for a girl, but I can't help thinking Vivienne is cool (but not sure as it has Angelina associations now, I was thinking more of Vivien Leigh).

Always, always have trouble with boys names. Quite like:

Hugh
Bran
maybe Lachlan,

and here is the odd one - Severin. Am I just too hormonal?!! Would it be one to regret?

Any help/other suggestions appreciated.

Oh and Louis?

Severin - only come across this as a surname so, I suppose it could work like Spencer, Connor, Bradley, Harvey and so on.

Bran though...

Rather Lachlan though.

Louis, outright winner from me.

Severin - was he in Blake's 7?

Lachlan quit epopula r in scotland these days

Severin is from the Velvet Underground song 'Venus in Furs' and I know, it's a bit risque.

Bran means Raven in Irish, but can appreciate its teasing potential here.

I like Aoife (are you Irish?) very much.

I also like Severin for a boy. I know a lovely french one.

Think Severin was female in Blakes 7 - wasn't she the big baddie?

Ah! The big baldie baddie?

Louis definetly

No, I'm not Irish but dp is and all other children have Irish names.

Think I'm too young for this Blakes 7 of which you speak!

I absolutely love Aoife, I would have liked to use this, but alas, no girl babies for me! I would have pronounced it phonetically though, more like a-fee, rather than the ee-fer.

Not sure about your boy choices - I like unusual names, Severin doesn't work for me, I like Louis - how popular is this nowadays? Lots when my eldest was born....

Wasn't the oily Alan Rickman character in harry Potter called Severus Snape? A bit too close to Severin, maybe?

I think Bran is ill-advised, for many reasons.

I like Aoife very much. On the irish theme, how about Oisin for a boy?

Blakes 7 baddie

I like Hugh best.

Severin and Bran both a bit too for me.

severin- ghastly
bran- medicinal/agricultural
love louis

It just came to me - servelan not severin

severin,isnt that velvet underground song

hugh i always think shug/shuggie.being scottish

was severin some sort of seedy gimp?

Vivienne is a lovely name, I think very few people will associate it with Ange & Brad, they certainly didn't pop into my head when I saw it! Love it, go with Vivienne

Hugh is a lovely name for a little chap, I like Bran, but it looks unfinished, do you have a longer version in mind? ...not a fan of Brandon! Lachlan is okay. Severin is a new one on me! ..I think I'd steer well clear of this one

I'm thinking you like unusual name, so here we go:

Augustus
Balthazar
Barnabus
Bay
Branwell ..
Caspar
Cassius
Crispin
Dashiell
Humphrey
Ignatius
Inigo
Magnus
Orson
Phineus
Rafferty
Romulus
Stellan
Xavier

What's shug/shuggie? And yes, Severin from the Velvet Underground song.

I do like Louis, but I think it may be a bit too 'normal'?! I try not to go for popular names. Is this still popular now?

No one liking Vivienne?

I like Louis.

And I like Vivienne actually. I really quite like it.

Nickname for Hugh - Shug

scotland
hugh=shug
ned and jake= heidthebaw reprobates

Melina thanks for taking the time to post those suggestions.

Wasn't Branwell a Bronte? I like Bran as it is though.

Yes, think Severin might be trying too hard...

Like Dashiell, but dp doesn't, same with Oisin, hester. In fact, I really like Oisin.

In spite of my suggestion of Severin, I would quite like a down-to-earth-but-different-name, if one exists!

dashiell,as in monority report or author hammett.like it actually