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!

Ned is awful.

Llewelyn is a hideous suggestion for a child's name!

Keir is not to my taste personally, I find it a bit Chavvy.

And, Smith? Really?

People are calling their children Smith?

Ossian?

Story if already suggested

Coll
Gregor
Callan
Cairn
Tearlach
Harris
Struan
Fergus

Ossian sounds invented.

Scottish names are way too popular around here. Not keen.

Have you looked at the 2012 list of every name registered?

www.firstnamesmithblog.com

not my first choice of names, but he is very cute

theonlyone yep. The whole thing. And the 2013 one as well.

There's some crackers on there.

Ayrton?
Strachan?
Bruin?

Ok, so if you have looked at every name registered I'm stuck!

I found girls names really easy, boys names were very very hard!

I used to watch the television credits for ideas

As a surnamey name me and DH liked Harrison.

Casper?

I know a lovely one

Ashton
Cody
Reuben
Seth

Oh god I don't like anything..

Oran
I love this name, I know two boys who are just lovely

You seem to have a similar taste in names to when I was choosing ds's name you can have my shortlist but not his name incase you like it.

Flynn
Dexter
Elias
Troy
Asher
Everett
Warwick
Jarreth
Blair
Blake
Jasper
felix
Luther

Short list ha!

Dh hated them all, and didn't like ds's name I had picked even before I was pregnant until 2 weeks before he was born.

Taking "surnamey" as a kicking-off point...

Abney
Alden
Ansel
Ayton
Brewster
Calvin
Clayton
Colton
Curtis
Edison
Fisher
Foster
Griffin
Hardy
Jarvis
Miller
Pierson
Sutton
Warwick
Wilson

Robin
Robinson
Grayson
Marvin
Lewis
Laurence

Bailey
Harmon
Talon
Jerome

Jordan
Dwight

I think you should have a look at Australian or American name registers. Your preference seems to be along those lines. Good luck!

The only one I like there is Clayton.

Dwight. Jesus.

Oran is lovely, but would get Oran Mor all the time..

How about getting a map and looking at place names?

Place names? I don't know about that... such as? I don't think i've ever liked a name that was a place name.

We did the pin in a map thing and almost called our 2nd son Cairn as that is what we kept on hitting. I know a Merrick named after the hill.