Spanish boy names

[anthonys]

My partner is Spanish and therefor we've agreed to give our first child a Spanish name as he's surname will be English. I'm not that familiar with them, unfortunately..

Top of the list so far are these three, while they sound quite exotic when pronounced in Spanish, in English they feel a bit boring - standard?

1. León
2. Nicolás
3. Mateo

Looking for Spanish names that are perhaps more unique but pronounceable in English?

I work with a spaniard called Antonio which is quite nice and very pronounceable

I love Xabier/ Jabier nn Xabi!

At times like this I always suggest Inigo.

Well known name, established but rare in English (e.g. 17th-century architect Inigo Jones), cool because of The Princess Bride.

I like your list, especially Leon.

How about:
Esteban (Spanish for Sebastian)
Andres
Diego
Antonio/Anton
Gabriel
Flavio
Guillermo
Pablo
Miguel
Rafael
Tomas

Good luck!

Esteban is a Spanish variant of Stephen.

that is right badtime - for some reason I was convinced it was Sebastian

Adán
Amadeo
Eliseo
Casimiro
Fidel
Guillermo
Baltasar
Marco
Roque
Severiano

I live in Argentina, these are some popular choices from here..

Damian
Ignacio
Felipe
Javier
Osvaldo
Lautaro
Ezequiel
Francisco
Alejandro
Leandro
Santiago

Xavi
Inigo
Iker
Pepe
Raul
Jordi
Fernando

Lots of great Spanish names and due to the popularity of Spanish football people are much more familiar with the names and how to pronounce them!

Be careful with some names, everyone here (in Spain) seems to be called Antonio (DH included) or Javier, for example.

I love Gabriel (pronounced like Gabrielle, the singer, in Spanish) and it would have been my daughter's name had she been a boy. I must admit, we struggled with male names and I was very glad we found out we were having a girl.

I love Mateo. He can go by Mat or by Teo or his whole name. And a PP beat me to it, but I also vote for Inigo. :)

Jesus, go on....

But I really like Mateo.

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I like Santiago, I vaguely know one, known as Santi, and I always think what a nice name it is when I hear it.

Mateo is cool.

I have a Raphael, so I can't think what could possibly work better than Rafael in your case . Mateo is very nice too, although it sounds more Italian to my ears than Spanish.

Mateo is cool but also the name of the shagabout waiter in Benidorm.
Love Gabriel, also Paco (Francisco) and Federico.

Agree with Rafael and Gabriel

Thanks for all the suggestions; good to get some feedback on our list too. Inigo is something a bit different but as it's Basque my partner thinks it'd be a bit odd.. I also quite liked Alejo, Xabi, Santiago, Rafael and Jordi. Just need to narrow it down a bit before the birth now!

I love Santiago! Also know a Raul, Javier, Antonio.

Other names:
Pablo
Luis
Cristian
Francisco
Jose
Salvador
Censi