Names ending with 'er' or 'a'

[glastochick]

I know I'm getting ahead of myself here as we're not pregnant yet, but I, DH, and DS all have names ending in er and a.

We know what we'd call a girl, but are stuck on boys names and would like to have some ideas.

Our names have have two syllables but that's not really important.

I didn't even notice what we'd done until DS was a few months old and his name ends the same way ours does, and think it would be kind of nice to keep that theme.

Any ideas?

Alexander
Lysander
Jonah
Micah
(same sound but not spelling)

Noah

Dexter?

Sasha
Mischa

I love Noah, but I know DH would say no to it because he doesn't like religious names (rules a lot out which is a pain)

DS's name is Sander, so Alexander and Lysander would also be out. Quite like Sasha. Not too feminine though?

Alaister
Archer
Baxter
Casper
Chandler
Chester
Christopher
Fletcher
Jagger
Jasper
Javier
Kaiser
Latimer
Lorimer
Miller
Oliver
Parker
Roger
Rossiter
Sylvester
Spencer
Thatcher
Whittaker
Wilber
Winter
Xander
Xavier
Ryder

Sasha/Sascha are definitely boys names across mainland Europe - they are both transliterations from Cyrillic of the traditional Slavic nn for Aleksandr.

Some others: Christopher, Peter, Uther, Arthur, Hector, Bela, Joshua, Micah, Ezra, Jedidiah, Dara, Viktor, Gregor?

Fabulous list MelinaM

Oooh, Sasha would also fit with the reasoning behind DS' name, even though it would mean the same.

But I also like Uther

Some great ideas here

I aim to please

Sasha is lovely!

Dieter
Asher
Luther
Baxter
Caster
Lester
Ivor
Ryder
Hunter
Tanner
Walter

Sasha is feminine to me, but only because DD is Sasha :). Either way I love it and also think it is a nice name for a boy. Although for some reason prefer the Sacha spelling for a boy.

As far as I know though (feel free to correct me!), Sander is a variant of Alexander - as is Sasha. Would it bother you that they come from the same name?

In Germany the name Sascha is only allowed for a boy.

I think the French version is Sacha (as they pronounce the 'ch' as 'sh' like in le chat) and the English Sasha.