Help - boys name

[sleepevader]

Want a nice boys name that's not too unusual but not too unusual either.

Don't want him forever spelling it.

Help!

not too unusual but not overly popular either

Aidan
Tristan
Maxwell
Joel
Felix
Peter
Elias
Nathaniel
Jasper
Lewis
Elijah
Leonard
Austin
Gabriel
Eric
Gregory
Nicholas
Patrick
Miles
Jerome
Rufus
Walter
Clifford
Elliot
Lucas
Lawrence
Sidney
Matthew
Richard

Have a look at last years' ONS statistics - it lists ALL boys names used last year - thousands of lovely ones to choose from outside the top 100.

Here are a few I like
Conrad
Quentin
Jonah
Gregor
Thaddeus

Meteorite - out of all of those I like two. One is my ds name. The other dp has vetoed.
This is so tough!

Evamummy as soon as I get access to laptop will look at ONS.

I called my son Frank after my grandpa. Everyone says they like it

Oh dear! Well I can try again... can you give us more to go on? What style of names do you like? Old, modern, "cool", traditional, Biblical, Celtic, retro...??

Is Leo becoming popular?

Celtic. Your first choice was spot on

We like Samuel, Benjamin but don't love them.

I like Luke, Alex - DP hates them.

We had a phase of liking Toby but that's gone now.

Girls names easy........ Cerys, Imogen , Anwen ,etc.

But don't necessarily want a welsh name if this is a boy.

I quite like max actually- think dp said no though. Austin is a family name in use.

Samuel and Benjamin both nice.

Dunstan, Thomas, Matthew, Edwin, Gregory, Edward, Dylan, Henry, Harrison, Isaac, Richard, Oliver, Fergus, Callum, Daniel, Benedict, Christopher, Iago, Arthur, Alistair, Caleb, Cameron, Jared, Frederick, James, Ewan, Declan, Kieran, Jack, Lachlan, Jacob, Finlay, Dominic, Edmund, Ethan, Philip, Rowan, Nathan, Owen, John, Ryan?

Bryn
Dylan
Marcus
Owen

Thank you but none rocking my boat. Really dont feel a name will ever come to us!

Gabriel
William
Ross
Rufus
Sebastian
Dominic
Theo
Billy
Christian
Lucas
Jude
Saul

I love Samuel and Benjamin - however i'm not a fan of nn's Ben or Sam (as both have been dog names in our families!)

They would be shortened to Ben or Sam - I understand what you are saying about dogs names. Dylan and Toby have been dogs names in the past so can't see past that now.

I do like theo but neighbour has just had a theo.

I really like Luke and Alex too but dp won't budge!

Have a look at what's at around 75- 100 in the national statistics.

Actually, don't...I went for something in the 80's and it's now near the top 10.

Hamish
Hugo
Bruce
Edward
Joel
Ralph

Ha ha and Luke is another dogs name for us!

I have a nephew who's Alex. How about Alistair with Ali as nn?? Thats not popular but i could see it as a name for a very cute toddler and a very handsome bloke too!

Well we now have three Samuel, Ben and Alfie. DP also going on about Toby,

Thank you for the suggestion of alistair- but for me Ali is a girls name.

Dunstan, Arthur, Hector.

Macsen, Owain, Carwyn, Idwal

Heath, Bryn, Torin, Struan, Jago

David, Joseph, Mark, Adam.
There are loads of good biblical names, have a flick through a bible (I'd avoid Nebuchednezzar though)

But you didn't want overly popular, and Samuel, Ben and Alfie are all top 20, if not higher!

Sam and Ben are really popular names, there were 4 Sams, 3 Bens at my nursery last year (out of about 60 kids).
How about Paul or Michael?