Are these boys names a bit silly?

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My children are called Ellis (boy) and Amelia and I'm currently expecting another boy.

I don't want a name that is too popular, nor considered 'wacky' - and today have come across this name:

Tean (according to a baby naming website, pn 'tee-en' which I assume means Tee-un?)

and also:

Oran (pronounced as it looks - Or-un)

Tean is Cornish according to the website I found it on - and as my familty originate from Cornwall I thought it'd be nice; and Oran is Celtic I think?

Does anyone know if a) these are real names, b) they will be taken as 'silly' seeing as I live in England, and c) they even slightly go with my existing LOs names?

Honest opinions very welcome :)

Oran is Irish - I know quite a few little boys called Oran and I think it's beautiful and strong

A friend had an Oran 2 weeks ago. hadn't heard of it before!

How about swapping the O and the R and having Roan? Nice strong name, unusual, but not totally far out and I think it goes with Ellis & Amelia.

There is a Tean in Staffordshire pronouced Teen.

Like Oran or Orin (know of one) but not keen on Tean.

How about Tiernan?

Ragged apart from Ian or Iain....

Oran is a pretty common name in Ireland although its usually spelt Odhrán so I dont think its weird at all. Not sure about Tean though soz.

Rowan or Kiernan

Aaron sounds very similar to Oran and is more conventional and I think sounds better with your other kids names.

You forgot to mention "Eoin", BikRunSki. :)

I've only known one Iain, but heaps of Ians. So I think it's pretty easy to say "Ian, spelled the English way". Easier than explaining every time "No, no, no, I said ORan, not OWen. And you spell it with an A and no, no, no, not an h at the start, either, just the letter O." (etc.)

Back on the Oran thing again; what if it was spelt Orran (a genuine alternative spelling as far as I can tell) - and possibly pronounced as it's spelt - ok so people may just think I'm calling him Aaron, but as I said before my oh-so-simple surname gets misheard and misspelled, so sometimes I think people can just be a bit erm...dense :/

How about Odin?

You really cannot have Oran and Short, sounds like Orange Ort. Although that could just be my nearly 40 weeks worth of baby name obsessing taking over.

How about Piran, if you want to go really
Cornish?

Tean is one of the Scilly Isles, a small uninhabited one. I'd have put it down as a girls name, but google images brings up both males and female with that name.

How about Rowan? I liked it but my DH thought it was too unusual.

Rowan is lovely, not too unusual as it is a real name given to real people for generations, but not at all common.

I love it. Robin is another one with a similar feel to it.

I like Tean BUT my pronounciation of it was 'teen' as in Dean - d-een.

If it was spelt Tian it'd be a lot better as then it's the same pronounciation as Kian - which is a name I absolutely love.

Orin and Oren are also real names.

Tean looks like Tee-un to me. I like it, but it reminds me of Tegan/Teagen, and they're both too feminine in my opinion. I much prefer Tien (Tee-enn), but you might not be comfortable with that, as it's Vietnamese.
I do think it goes with your other children's names though.
Alternatively, Kian is a lovely name.

Oran just reminds me of Oran Berry, which you might not know, but your kids might in the future and their older friends. If Oran looks like orang-utan, then Orran sounds like orange, sorry.
You could try the spelling Auron.
However, I don't think any of them really go with your other names.

Rowan's a nice name, but this spelling is very popular on girls right now, so you'd be better with Roan or Rohan.