39 wks tomorrow - another boy's name shortlist to come and judge...

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I've done this once before but we've changed the list a bit since then and we did find everyone's comments scary nervewracking helpful so we're going to do it again. Apologies if you've seen my earlier thread (but many of you will be pleased to hear we've lost both Wyatt and Ludovic )

DH is Scottish, I am Irish/French and live in the South of England. We have always found boy's names really really hard and still have issues with every name on our list (which I'll mention below). We are struggling to agree as well, whatever DH decides is his favourite is my least favourite and so on... We've eliminated quite a lot of names that one of us just doesn't like and we're left with:

Euan - I have a "you and whose army" thing with it. Plus I don't love it but it's ok. Is DH's favourite
Fraser - Solid (and a family name) but possibly a bit dull?
Hamish - Too much? Also there are no good nns so we're worried he'd end up as "Hammy" or "Hamster"
Rory or Ruairidh - part of the problem here is agreeing a spelling and pronunciation, Rory = Raw-ry and Ruairidh or another Gaelic spelling - there seem to be a few - is more like Roo-ree
Seamus - a longtime fave, DH has now decided you really have to be Irish (not just have Irish grandparents like me) to use it. Sigh.

Thanks for your comments

Ty isn't too bad for a girl

Well - in that case you may have to tell DH to 'set his goalposts' in concrete! and get the naming book out again have a good think about things. It's difficult to make any suggestions because your taste in names is residing on a different planet to mine because I don't know what you have already wrongfully discarded!

I have very limited taste a short list of names I like, but to be honest, most names grow on you when you like the child don't they.

You need tea, scones, chocolate and a nap... maybe it will come to you while you snooze....

What about Patric like the French spell it?

Thanks for your help though ChippingIn And that's fine, people are allowed to different tastes otherwise everyone would have the same names as me and I'd hate that

It's good for me to air the names (so to speak) as we really don't talk to other people.

We're going to have a couple of days without talking about it just to let the options sink in and see how we feel then (that has worked in the past).

I also have very limited taste a very short list and am trying to be accommodating of DH's preferences since I did pretty much drive the girls' name choices

Quite a few of the alternatives people have suggested (Patric, Fergal, Eoin, etc) have already been crossed off the list for one spurious reason or other

Well - keep us posted!

We have to know what you've chosen! and once you've chosen it, I promise to love it!!

Euan - not keen, bit bland
Fraser - I like (and I am Scottish so have known a few and does not seem too surnamey to me/ make me think House of)
Rory/Ruairidh - my favourite, suits little boy and grown man and bit more interesting than Euan. Slightly prefer Gaelic spelling/pronounciation although maybe best to go with Rory in SE (though people would doon learn)
Hamish - know of a few babies recently, but not my cup of tea, makes me think of a bloke in a Tam o shanter and knew a dog called Hamish (no hamsters though)
Seamus - like Heaney, but maybe a bit old man/comedy Irish

In summary don't think you can go wrong with Rory/Ruaridh

sorry Ruairidh (obviously there may be spelling issues...)

:) Yes there are several ways to spell it apparently and I can't find out which is the "official" so think it might just be up to us to choose. For Scottish, seems to be Ruaridh or Ruairidh. For Irish, Ruari or Ruadhri I think.

We're kind of coming to the conclusion that Hamish is off the list (we like it, it's the Scottish version of Seamus but we just don't love it and it has problems I think so it's least favourite for us both).

Yes, ChippingIn, will report back with final choice. Hope baby arrives soon or there's just more time for us to dither and change our minds

For our first 3 DCs the name was picked early on in pregnancy (sometimes, even before conception). But we never really narrowed it down for DS2 and ended up with a shortlist of about 4 or 5 that got gradually shorter.

My advice is NOT to leave it until he's here to see what he looks like because they never look like any name, but if you have one before the baby's born you can at least be getting used to it.

We have an Irish surname, are both English but have Scottish roots. I loved Hamish - but we had used this as a mn for DS1.

I liked Hector, Magnus, Rory, Rufus - but DH didn't.

Other names we liked but someone in the family already had the same name.

DS2 didn't have a name for about 2 weeks - we narrowed it down to 2 - Tobias and Angus.

In the end we went with Angus. The problem with it is, it's also the name of our (living) cat. So for a couple of weeks, I called him 'The baby' - couldn't really get my head around it.

Even now, if I'm completely honest, I think we might've made a mistake. He doesn't 'look' like an 'Angus', still, but maybe if we'd committed ourselves earlier on, I would be properly used to it by now.

dd2 looked like she'd gone 5 rounds with Mike Tyson when she was born so I dread to think what we might have thought "suited her" then...

We had this with DD1. She looked like a cross between a boxer and a silverback . She certainly didn't fit the pretty, feminine name we had picked for her - though she does now.

Euan and Rory are my favourites

Seamus!! Love it have one ( and a Maeve and Caoimhe)
What about fergus, fergal or Cormac?

Seamus!! Love it have one ( and a Maeve and Caoimhe)
What about fergus, fergal or Cormac?

Thanks ChippingIn, you have mad me giggle tonight!

Good Luck with the name, I have this torture to come but putting it off for a bit yet :o

Many - feel free to PM me a link to your thread when you do one and I'll be happy to be blunt about your choice to help you decide!

Patrick.

Ticks all your different linguistic/nationality boxes. Unusual but not odd. Lots of differenty shortenings - but crisp enough to not be shortened at all.

The prefect boy's name, IMHO!

Patrick is lovely.

Other Irish names that are unusual and not impossible to spell or pronounce:
Fiacra
Ferdia
Daragh
Ronan

Oisin is nice and gaining in popularity but maybe a little difficult to spell/ say?

Patrick is actually our favourite name but we can't use it (just used in family).

It was our favourite too, we couldn't use it for that reason.

I think Scott is under used, Alistair is lovely too

Euan - love it
Fraser - dislike
Hamish - Too much
Rory or Ruairidh -Like Rory
Seamus - dislike

Why hasn't anyone suggested the king of names? Your DS will be called Duncan.

For an Irish name how about Sean? I have to admit I'm not a fan of Seamus, it tends to be the name of idiots in Irish plays and seems to be the default Irish name for people who know nothing about Ireland!

BTW the Irish spelling is Ruairi - great name and my favourite on your list by far.

Definitely Bob - our DS is Aleksander, shortened to Bobble, further shortened to Bob...actually that might not make sense to anyone who isn't me

Duncan is good, what about Douglas or Angus?