A sibling for Byron?

[DiscoBiscuits]

It took us a ridiculous amount of time to agree on Byron's name. DH has....eclectic taste name wise. So now number 2 is cooking and I am flummoxed.
So far we have:
Atticus (Byron was very nearly called this but I've gone off it a bit)
Caspian - we both like but don't love this.
Tiberius - DH favourite.
Aegeaus - Dh's other suggestion.

Girl wise we have only 1 name we can agree on:
Ariadne.

And that's it, we're at a veto impasse.
Help please?

[CloudyBayDrainageSystem]

Have we chewed over Otis yet?

[herecomesthsun]

Charmian
Imogen
Viola
Naomi
Livia
Persephone
Marguerite


Benedick/Benedict
Sebastian
Bede
Julius
Marcus
Horatio (or Nelson - we considered Nelson at one point)
Lysander

[herecomesthsun]

Stella

Raphael

[lisianthus]

Caroline?

[LillyNotOfTheValley]

Clovis, Hadrian, Hector, Priam (love Priam and Clovis)

And Lucretia or Cosima for a girl.

I have a DN named Antigone! Her siblings are Hector and Diotima FWIW outs self

[LillyNotOfTheValley]

Oh and Isolde is a fab name too. goes on my own list for potential DD2

[Raeray]

I like your name ideas!

How's about Tate, Ruben, Beck, Matias, Elias
Ingrid, Astrid, Darcey, Delilah,camille, Nina

Not sure where they all came from but hopefully you might like one or two

[Butwilliseeyouagain]

Look. Hephzibah, Atticus, Stalin, Caspian, Aegeaus, Antigone are all names that would be considered very silly and pretentious by a large number of people. Obviously it's your choice but I urge you to go for something less... silly. Please. Byron is really quite nice. Can you not go for around the same level of out-there-ness for number 2?

[fanjodisfunction]

My DD1 is called Ophelia, only ever gets nice comments at how beautiful it is.

Callisto
Portia
Calla
Isis
Delphine


Julius
Cinna
Jolyon
Odin
Ulysess (sorry if spelt wrong)

[TheCraicDealer]

If he likes Darwin, what about Dawson? I know one and it's now "on the list" for my as-yet unconceived spawn.

Livia would be great for a girl. Octavia?

[BananaHammocks]

I think I love you a little bit DiscoBiscuits.

Niles, Walter, Giles, Quentin, Balthasar, Chester, Amos, Jethro, Obadiah, Jedediah

Hebe, Athena, Artemis, Calliope, Renata, Acacia, Cassia, Xanthe, Olympia, Henrietta, Calista, Cleo

[DiscoBiscuits]

Isolde! Hot Damn, I forgot that. It's so pretty. Some really glorious names there to wake up to and consider, thank you.
Butwilliseeyouagain if you'd care to reread the thread you will find Stalin has been vetoed for very obvious reasons. And wasn't my suggestion either. I am trying to find a suitable compromise with my lovely, yet slightly eclectic DH.

[BananaHammocks]

Heathcliff, Thaddeus, Ludo, Rufus

Saffron, Monica, Claudia, Ravenna, Pia

[burberryqueen]

Allegra
Clair
Ada

[Rockinhippy]

If you like Tristan, you might also like Tarquinius?? We know adult brothers of those names, Tarquinius is by far the cooler of the two, he is a very handsome, successful sculpturer, with a penchant for renovating & collecting vintage 50s & 60s American cars

Tristan is a male stripper

Also if you like Dahlia, you may also like Delia, it was my DMs name & she was always beautiful, elegant, very clever and ahead of her time

[Rockinhippy]

where did Tarquinius come from - I wrote Tarquin

I love Darwin BTW :)

[Floggingmolly]

Why do you consider them weird?. Well, the list contained Stalin for a start...
You're trying way too hard and your kids will not thank you. What about Peter or Jane, can't be any bloody worse than that list

[Rockinhippy]

It's funny flogging but IME you are way off the mark, having a more usual, therefore more MEMORABLE name is actually a bonus in life, yes if course you will get the narrow minded, too much time on there hands and can't mind there own business odd pee takers, but if a DC is brought up to have good self esteem, they will take that for what it is & not be bothered by it in the long term.

Honestly, if you are interviewing a hundred applicants, amongst them many Janes & other common names, the odds are, that the one that sticks in your mind the most will be the only one with that particular unusual name :)

[BlueChampagne]

Conrad
Wreford

Vashti
Corinna

[Floggingmolly]

I was joking about Peter and Jane, Rockinhippy. I wasn't joking about Stalin.

[500internalerror]

Seth

Mary or Martha, or Seren.

[JacqueslePeacock]

Erasmus. I love it but would never dare use it.

[LondonMother]

Darwin has wonderful associations. Dawson - all I can think of is Les Dawson, and most of you are probably too young to remember him.

I would be most interested to know why your DH suggested Stalin, Discobiscuits. Was he not even a tiny bit bothered by the idea of having a son called by the same name as one of the most notorious mass murderers in world history? Presumably he'd have ruled out Adolf or Hitler, so why consider Stalin?

If he liked Xerxes, what about Cyrus or Darius?

[Inkspellme]

StJohn ( usually pronounced sinjin by anyone I met with it)

Xavier

can't think of any girls....