Help me find a boys name...

[Juno77]

I am going to be really fussy, dismissive for ridiculous reasons and probably sound like an arse on this thread. But I am really stuck. We've had a girls name set for a few months and I am still happy with it. But the boys name.. we keep going off them.

I need help.

I don't want anything common, in both senses of the word.

Our list thus far has been:
Jackson
Deacon
Brodie
Caleb

And I liked them all at first, and now I hate them. I think they sound chavvy. I have a DS with a top 10 name and thankfully he goes by a lesser used NN anyway, but still, I don't want to repeat that. He's one of 4 in his year.

HELP!

my 15yr old DD is Chloe & have an 8yr old niece named Niamh ??

I grew up in a scheme in the East End of Glasgow, & some of my oldest friends live there still.

I have a decent life, home, financial situation etc. & worked bloody hard to get to where I am in my career, but...

...you can take the lassie oot of the scheme but never the scheme oot of the lassie, it seems oh and that is absolutely fine by me.

*Stoorie - agree, it's Ned

Sorry feegle that illustrates the point really - I'm not in Glasgow btw.

What I am trying to say is that our own views are very much coloured by particular names we have heard in particular contexts, so what one person would consider schemey,/chavvy/neddy, someone else wouldn't as they are thinking of a nice shiny middle class child rather than the snotty wee horror that we are thinking of.

I wanted him to be Edmund but nickname Ned. Apparently this is a No No in these parts.

I have taught a Tiree, Blue, Sol, Durness, Laurie, lots of wonderful names - some I like, some not so much. But they become their names

Ahh see where you are coming from. Ned is not an expression I hear a lot of really tbh. I was east coast rather than west and I am sort of in the middle now - maybe it's dying out?

No need to apologise to me soon I was very tickled when reading your example

One of the reasons I suggested Ferris was because it's also a surname.

How about:

Halcyon (nn Hal)
Beckett
Winston
Thurston
Brewis
Connor
Miles
Bastian
Tyler
Cohen
Acton
Currer
Austin
Dylan

I don't like all of these, but perhaps you'll see something in one of them that pleases you.

No one really says ned here. Schemie or Chavvy. Ned is more a Glasgow/west coast thing.

Zephaniah - in my family tree.

I also came across Zillah for a girl.

I love both of them. Perhaps it was best that I'd already named my kids by the time I found the names!

Cohen is nice!

I don't think OP is purposely being rude or offensive, she is just being honest and expressing her opinion.
However on a public forum full of mums whose DC's names may well have appeared on this thread and had a negative comment made against it, people are going to be offended - maybe just something OP needs to bear in mind...

Anyway, back to the point in hand:
Nate / Nathan / Nathaniel
Dominic
Anthony
Drew
Simeon
Zacharius
Jasper
Willem
Gregor
Nicholas
Geraint
Otis
Addison
Ethan
Barnaby Milo
Carlton

I haven't read through all the responses so don't know if its been suggested but what about Devon?

• Barnaby and Milo are two separate names!

Indeed they may - and I am sorry to have offended anyone. I've seen my DS name on plenty of threads in the past and people comment that they don't like it. I couldn't be less offended!

Each to their own.

Again I apologise if I have hurt anyone's feelings by dismissing their children's names.

I like Devon!

I think all of the names you are looking at are a bit chavvy. Non chavvy names: Charlie, Harry,Teddy, Issac, Rory, Michael, David, Ian, Chris, Eammon, Robert, Andrew, Edward, Toby, Joe. So basically classic names.

Abramovich

Luxury-Yacht

Penis-Beaker

wips me too.

It's why I started this thread. Looking for non-Chavvy, and non classic names.

Maybe, this simply doesn't exist

Don't know if these fit your brief?
Byron
Benedict
Ezekiel (nn zeke)

Good luck OP

seasalt not keen..

Why is this so hard? We have had the girls name locked down for months now!

I think they don't. Anything modern or trendy just screams chav for some reason.

What is the girls name out of interest?

The girls name we have chosen is..

Isobel

Go for it

is a bell neccessary on a bike

Isobel is pretty - quite popular though which was a reason for discounting some of the suggested boys names...

Of the Isobel's I know their male siblings are Benjamin, Zac and James.

I think you are right to reject all the names you listed in your first post. They are all totally dire. Just go for a good classic name and you can't go wrong. IMHO.