Please help me find a classic boys name which will meet my ridiculous list of requirements

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I am 12 weeks pregnant and we are thinking of names. We think we have a girl's name sorted- will either be Nina Rose or Eleanor Rose.

We are finding boys names much harder however, due to the following constraints:

1)Our surname is double-barelled and so we think a shorter name would sound best and also save the poor child from getting writing cramp!

2)Our surname begins with 'Sh' so names ending in this eg Josh are a no-go. for this reason we discounted Imogen for a girl.

3)We love classic names- my favourites are Rory (sadly cannot be used as immediate family member called this) and Nicholas which I love but DH has discounted as he thinks the child will get called 'knicker-less' . We like William but it is sooo popular. Also Oliver but close friend just named baby this.

4)I am not keen on names ending in -ie, eg, Alfie, Freddie though I know they are popular.

5)Not keen on modern names eg Dexter, Jayden/Hayden, Kai etc

6. Nothing too upper-class sounding (I am thinking of Hugo, Tristan, etc) as although we have a double-barelled surname we live in a not very well-to-do area in the North East!

If anyone has managed to read through my ridiculous list of requirements I would love some help!

Thank you so much for all these suggestions. So you really like Patrick then Seeker? As I said upthread, so many of these are lovely names, but just not 'the one' for us. However our shortlist is now much longer and has the following names on it:

Nicholas I am keeping it on there despite DH
William
Edward
Thomas
Lawrence
Finlay
James
Henry
Andrew
Alistair (I am less keen but DH likes)
Matthew (not sure about it though really)

Forgot to add Elliott as well!

All lovely names on your list, I have a Tom so I'm biased against that, popular - yes - but a godd strong name that will never date.
The only one I'm not really keen on is Finlay, very popular at the moment and I'd put it in the Alfie, Archie group.

Don't rule a name out because you think it sounds too 'posh'. I worried about that. We called our son Sebastian. (Our surname starts with Sch...'sh' sound..) I was quite nervous, almost apologetic.. about telling people on the school run what his name was!!! I don't know why. I did get some comments about it sounding posh...but most people generally said what a nice name it was. Go with what you like.

From your list Edward is really nice - could shorten to Ted, Ed, Eddie - for nn
I also like Elliot, Henry
Prefer Finley to Finlay,

All the others are alright but these are the best, well i think so anyway.

MAX!!!!!!!

Max Finley Michael

Tis a good strong name, easy to spell and not too popular.

WHat about Aidan - strong connection to North East?

Other ideas, Peter, Philip, David, Anthony, Adrian, Michael.

just seen your revised shortlist. I was surprised to see Thomas (was going to suggest), Laurence and James, as your Point 2 above - would have thought they would be tricky with surname beginning with Sh?

I would have thought a surname beginning with a Sh- sound would rule out names ending in -s and -x, as well as -sh. All of these will create an awkward pile-up where they meet.

James of course. perfect name, 007 had it you know.

Nico
Seth
Edmund

Thanks for the input, maybe the names ending in -s do need a re-think. This is so hard!

Ernest- excuse my stupidity, but what is the connection between Aidan and the North east? I always think of it as being American because of Sex and The City.

Peter and Philip we discounted because of the PMS initials, middle name is going to be Michael and not keen on Adrian. Anthony I am on the fence a bit.

Fabian Michael

I do like Fabian but on the Dexter thread people were sayin it sounded wet/feeble? Also is it too upper-class sounding?

Fabian is a bit Tristan or Sebastian to me!

WHAT ABOUT MAX??????????

Fraser?

Aidan is Irish, not American.

Cedric
Hardy
Quentin
Scott

Eleanor Rose is lovely. Not keen on Nina Rose, sorry.

How about;
Thomas
Toby (or Tobias)
Matthew
Benjamin
Barnabus
Luke
Marcus
Henry
Edward
Edmund
??

....or James, Phillip, Julian, Reuben, Caleb, Zephaniah, Harry, George, Freddie, Alexander...

St Aidan came from Ireland and brought Christianity to the North East. He lived on Lindisfarne (Holy Island) There is a big statue of him there. All over, esp up further, like Seahouses, there's St Aidan's church, St Aidan's beach/hotel/Road/school etc etc. known as Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Aidan the Apostle of Northumbria (died 651), and was proposed as a patron Saint of the UK

oh, and the boys' school in Sunderland is Saint Aidan's

Jacob

Henry

Andrew

George

Isaac ....love that name

Google one syllable names and you might find a few you'll like i.e. Sam, Finn, Rafe etc