We're having a boy! Unusual, quirky name suggestions please.

[Badgerina]

Had our 20 week scan today, not only are we lucky enough to be having a healthy baby, but we also found out will be having a boy. Squeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

We already have a (very ecstatic) 7 year old boy - Oscar.

Names we both like:
Felix
Spike
Max

Names I like:
Caspar
Ptolemy (I know )

Names DH likes:
Stanley
Elvis (I know )

What else could be add to our list? Our surname begins with an N and is one syllable.

Ambrose
Seth
Randal

Lucas

My colleague has a DS called Spike who is 7 and it really suits him. If you love it go with it!!

my girls were both going to be Caspar, until of course they came out as girls
Congratulations, I like Felix too

Congratulations Badgerina, love
Oscar and Felix best mixed with some of the other midle names Ptolemy maybe spike or embossed

Ooh er Elvis!!!

BoysWillGrow, I LOVE Fox!

Emmerson
Beckett (Beck for short)
Milo
Gabriel (Gabe)

Ptolemy
Ptolemy
Ptolemy
Ptolemy
Ptolemy
Ptolemy
Ptolemy
Ptolemy
Ptolemy

Or I do like your other choices except Elvis!

Barnaby is great.

Ptolemy Barnaby. Or Barnaby Ptolemy.

Not Ptolomy , unsells you can guarantee that he is going to live in a middle class bubble for his whole 90 years of life.

And not Spike, unless you can guarantee that he is going to have a career in the creative industries and will never need to be taken seriously in a traditional professional setting.

Byron
Alt spelling if required Buy-Ronn

Erazmus. But I do really love Elvis and Spike!

Look. Imagine a circumstance where an adult you knew had to change their name. But for some reason they couldn't do it themselves, and asked you to do it for them.

I cannot imagine that you would decide that Elvis, or Spike or Hercules was the perfect choice. So why would you call any other unconsenting person something like that?

I accept that you and others might not think they were the perfect choice, but there are also plenty of people who would. Its a question of taste, and both viewpoints are equally valid.

"And not Spike, unless you can guarantee that he is going to have a career in the creative industries and will never need to be taken seriously in a traditional professional setting."

I used to work in the Finance industry and worked with a Spike - he was a very well respected Director. This was an American bank, so perhaps Brits would be more pre-judgmental...

See I work in a traditional professional setting - finance professional - in a large government department and have been involved in a few recruitment exercises. It would not occur to me to judge someone on their first name at all. Be it Spike, Ptolemy, Jayden, Kayden, Kai or Chardonnay. I had absolutely no say in my name so why would I judge them for their name?

Qualifications, relevant previous experience and a well written application is what I'm after! I'd much rather have a Spike, Ptolemy, Kai, LaKesha or Chardonnay that has some get up and go, motivation and ambition than a Peter, James, Lucy or Sarah who is just going through the motions.

DP and I wish we'd been brave enough to call DS Isambard but we weren't. It would've gone great with our surname too!

I've got one!

Falco

Axolotl!

i know a couple of 'elvis'es. they're both albanian (don't know if that's relevant or not, maybe its traditional or maybe their parents were fans of presley) and it seems perfectly reasonable to call them elvis.

don't call him spike. really, don't.

I'm too late to this thread!

A friend has a baby Otis, which I think is lovely.

Oh I LOVE the name Casper, always have - knew a lovely attractive one once upon a time. My DH couldn't be covinced

Imagine a circumstance where an adult you knew had to change their name. But for some reason they couldn't do it themselves, and asked you to do it for them. I cannot imagine that you would decide that Elvis, or Spike or Hercules was the perfect choice.

I cannot imagine anything being the perfect choice in those circumstances. I would feel just as nervous about changing their name to John, Chris, or Peter as I would changing it to something quirky: how on earth could I judge what they'd like (unless they'd told me beforehand, which defeats the object of the exercise)? What if I chose a common name, and pissed them off because it meant that they would be one of 15 Johns in their workplace?

If I had to change my own name, I think I'd go for something unusual. Other people, I'm sure, would go for something more commonplace. The same holds true for naming our children: both my DCs have unusual names, but plenty of their friends don't.