Brother For Ludo

[Leslieannelevine]

I'm after inspiration!

I'm 30 weeks pregnant with DS2 and totally stuck for a name.

I'd like to go a little more classic this time but still avoid being one of several in his class.

Ludo and ....?

Yahtzee!

With the exclamation point. Very important.

Or, more seriously, how about Alexander? Alex for short.

How about
jake
Maximilian
Malachi
Knox
Edwin?

Or even Xander for short.

If you don't mind another 'O' name, Milo or Arlo would go nicely, I think. Or Jago, like Iseeall suggests.

Alexander, Edmund, Nicholas, Robert are all names I like but hate the nicknames - Alex, Ed, Nick and Rob. You can't control the nicknames can you so you have to be ready for them.

Yahtzee! Like Westward Ho! The exclamation mark is important!

I don't want another O name although I like all of these and Hugo too.

I like Edwin but I think my loathing of Ed will rule it out.

Priam?

Soloman
Alaric

You don't have to shorten them. Several of my adult friends have names that are commonly shortened, but they've always used their proper names. You just need to be polite but firm.

has anyone suggested chris?

I see NinthWave has already beaten me to it - was just about to say Hoggle! What about Toby? Or The Goblin King? Depends how it would fit with your surname I suppose...

Jeremy
Lev
Samuel
Crispin
Jasper

I guess the crux of my dilemma is that I have picked an unusual name and am now concerned that picking anything more usual will be unbalanced and weird like having Alphonse and Steve.

Yes, I think unusual is the way to go. Otherwise the traditional one will feel a bit drab and like you've lost your bottle.

Why do you want to go less unusual? Have you been unsure about Ludo?

Not Vincent - what if it's shortened to "vic"?!

Peregrine
Bartholomew
Ptolomy

Jerome

Dominic

I haven't lost my bottle!

I sort of didn't realise how commented upon Ludo would be, for me it is no more unusual than Jago for example.

We're not a totally English family either.

I see it as an underused eccentric classic which is probably the vibe I want to go with but more of an emphasis on the classic than the eccentric this time.

The music critic for the Financial Times is the gloriously named Ludo Hunter-Tilney. So how about Hunter?!
(I love the name)

Ooh, I love eccentric classic as a genre!

Inigo?
Rupert?
Montgomery?
Laurence?

Valentine?

Where are you/your partner or family from, just a rough Idea, maybe we can get inspiration from there

I still vote for Jago though

Algernon!
I know a 5 yr old Algy. He lives up to it beautifully.

Babyheave - I though Cluedo.

Sorry OP that isn't helpful.

I think a single syllable name might sound good.

Max
Zak
Tom
Flynn

and for some reason Bob keeps popping up in my head and I have no idea why - I think of it as a nickname.

I don't want to out us as I think there are only a couple of Ludo's born each year but part Mediterranean and part American parents/grandparents. We're firmly based in the Uk but maybe our cultural reference points are slightly non mainstream.