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.

Yep, just had a quick google! I'm rather liking it now, and Bran on it's own is growing on me I must say

I love Dashiell! Hmm ...how about:

Amadeus
Atticus
Beckett
Claude
Elijah
Hadley
Joaquin
Roman
Reuben
Sebastian

bran is ghastly

Amadeus - wanky middle class try too hard
Atticus - yes ok
Beckett- wanky try too hard
Claude - yes you have surname for it.
Elijah - v v popular
Hadley - gimp from spandau no nooooooooo
Joaquin like it
Roman love it
Reuben love it
Sebastian love it

Severin is much too like Severus Snape for me - not a good association! Blake Seven was Servalan (female, quite evil and very foxy with it) perhaps a good name for a slinky sort of cat?

Vivienne is lovely. Not so keen on any of your boys names. Louis isn't very unusual and Hugh is very preppy to me. Would Bran have an English (with a sharp 'a') or Welsh (with a long 'a'_) pronunciation?

I know two Severin's. One is a Swiss boy the other a grown man with a French mum. I like it a lot.
Vivienne is a lovely name, Bran is diabollically awful. HTH.

Louis - lovely, don't like Bran personally.

Bran = all bran, bran flakes etc etc i think might be open to bullying, but maybe thats just the area I come from.

I'm not keen on Bran, only because of the association with eating AllBran to keep you regular.

I really like Bram though - could that be a possibility?

Not keen on Hugh, really like Lachlan.

Severin - don't know why, but it sounds a bit agressive to me - maybe it's the "sever" part of it?

Good luck with the birth and hope you find the right name!

Severin just makes me think 'severing'...

Bran - you have got to be joking! Bran flakes, All Bran, Rice Bran, Oat Bran. The teasing will be relentless (and regular LOL), and to a child it will be horrible.

Not keen on Severin. It reminds me of Severus Snape and savarin (a cake similar to rum baba)

Severin make me think of Severine the prostitute in the movie Belle Du Jour.
Bran is daft, although probably less so in America with all the Bricks, Clays and Chads.

Yes I'm a bit worried about the ignorance over the name Bran and realise it could be open to teasing. It is a real name though, those 'American' names are just made up, surely?

Thanks for your suggestions though everyone. Still don't think dp and me are much further on. I know this one will be nameless for a few weeks again...well if it's a boy anyway.

Would Brand be a bit more masculine perhaps?

I like Bran. As in the Welsh name meaning 'crow'?
Also like Lachlan. I know a lovely little Lachlan.
Severin would be destined to be a goth...

I love Vivienne, very very nice name. Am loving Juliet too.

Bran is utterly awful, sorry lol.

Love Lachlan.