"Tough" names for a boy

[TrueRomance28]

So after spending so much time picking beautiful girls names, I find out today that all my instincts are unreliable and its a boy!
I seem to like American sounding names and the boyfriend and me both agree we want it to sound "tough"....... but we're completely stuck for ideas. We want something as different as possible without being silly if that makes sense! Can any of you help with suggestions???

Cameron, Angus, Denis, Marcus, Mark, Tony, Alexander.
Most American names sound very cutsie to me - not tough at all... Chip, Harley, Brody etc.

Clint sounds tough, but would have to much giggle appeal for 12yo boys.

Some 'American-sounding' names you might like:

Ace
Anderson
Archer
Arno
Ash
Axel
Beckett
Boone
Bruno
Buck
Brooks
Canyon
Carson
Carsten
Cash
Chance
Chase
Clay
Colt
Colton
Cooper
Cordell
Cormac
Cruz
Curran
Dash
Dempsey
Denver
Drake
Emmett
Finch
Gunner
Hudson
Hunter
Jagger
Jett
Justice
Kellan
Knox
Lennon
Madden
Miller
Nico
Orson
Paxton
Porter
Quinton
Ranger
Rhett
River
Ryder
Ryker
Slater
Talon
Trenton
Titus
West
Willem
Wyatt
Zane

Hunter?

Steel (know of one). I know one Titus and he's the biggest sweetest softie even now in his 40's so I would never associate
It with toughness!

Rocky! I actually like this

Go for Sarah Palin's sons' names- you don't get much more "tough" sounding than those. It seems that monosyllabic is the way ahead. Trig, Troy, Blaze

Not entirely certain why youy'd want to saddle your kid with a cowboy's name though in this day and age but I guess that your choice.

FWIW, Annie Proulx's toughest characters seem to have girls' names- Diamond and Ruby afair, and wasn't John Wayne's real first name Marion?

Spartacus
Atila
Peter
Alfred (not if he was the one who made cake)
Arthur
Excaliber
Utha
William
Harold

Randy in the UK would be cruel.

Andrew means manly doesn't it? Duke of York used to be called Randy Andy.

I would be cautious about giving a deliberately 'tough' name to a son as the child may grow up to be really weedy and not suit his name at all. For example, what about if Woody Allen was called Butch Allen?

I know a baby Hudson, I hated the name at first, but it's really grown on me. We also had a hen called Rocky (until recently.. :(). She was a great hen, I'd thoroughly recommend it as a baby name :o

How about Garth. Sounds big and strong. Or Wyatt (Earp). I'll keep thinking of all my favourite cowboys now. Or his brothers Virgil and Morgan.

Rofl @ '"Elvis BigBollocks the Third"'

Our friends have a boy called Rocco which I think is both brave and lovely!

I have a friend that wanted to call her son a 'tough' name, so she called him Maddox.

do you want him to SOUND tough, or to BE tough?

If you want him to be tough, call him....

Shirley, or Pamela

HTH

Leroy [Brown]

Baddest man in the whole damn town

Or

Rudy
Rougher dan rough, tougher dan tough, strong like Lion, we are iron....

(I'll stop now)

Avocado made me splutter my drink

Logan is strong but not too out there.

Chandon needs to add Sue

lol at reverie suggesting you name your child after her dead hen

off course, SUE:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_Named_Sue

I have a Cassius (well its one of his names)
thats well hard.

Phoenix
Grittith
Winston

Brad
Chad
Grant
Gavin
Hunter
Fletcher
Titus
Logan
Morgan
Justin
Jackson
Zak
Rocco
Lennox
Axel

Maverick, I actually really like it, it would be a "hands off that name" if I was to have anymore children. It reminds me of Top Gun, but have heard it elsewhere recently and think it's fab :)