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!

X

Well

Well in

Well in Scotl

Sorry, phone!

Well I was only looking in Scotland and I found quite a few place names that we liked ie, I liked Sheigra for a girl (and we also have lots of happy memories from climbing there). Lots of places in the Western Islands especially (for us)

Oh I know a Merrick as well! Didn't know it was a hill though

Thought of another few I like that were all vetoed by dh

Royston
Clyde
Innes
Struan
Jefferson
Rufus
Heath
Laith

I like Jefferson but hate Jeff/Jeffrey as a NN.

Clyde is a river
Royston reminds me of the league of gentlemen!
Rufus best reserved for dogs..

Those are also the reasons why ds is not called these,lol
apart from I quite like jeff for a nn.

What is your Ds's name? That might help suggestions?

It won't help.

It is a name I would never choose again, it's a lovely name but it is perennial top 10.

Sorry for any repeats (there are a lot of names to go through on this thread!) but here goes....

Drake
Quinn
Maxwell
Wilson
Ashton
Tobias
Jameson
Forrest
Heath
Asher
Tate
Harris
Bronson
Xavier
Nathan
Leon
Joel
Ciaran
Grayson
Cole
Branson
Trey
Amos
Conrad
Dexter
Fletcher
Spencer
Cooper
Warren
Harrison

Jessie /jesse is definitely without a shadow of a doubt a girls name in Scotland

Peregrine, Sebastian, Augustine definitely not chavvy or common

Arne
Eric/k
Thorsten
Daniel
Stefan
Victor
Grey
Bron
Gareth
Gavin
Griff
And Jackson is naff, sorry.

You haven't commented on Thurston - that's fab.

You seem to like L names- what about Lawrence/Laurence, with Lawrie for short? A pretty trad and very strong short form which Scots will know, but it isn't that popular.

Other ideas:

Maxim

Eldon

Heath

Griff

Jonas

Robson
Hayden
Marcus
Gabriel
Jared

Peregrine?

Thurston is also awful.

Couldn't call a child Lawrie. Like a lorry.

Gavin. Baby Gavin. Oh dear.

Do you have any kind of short list now OP ?

Good luck OP! You seem truly stuck, let's hope its a girl.......

No short list.

I haven't added a single name.

I'm doomed.

Have you tried looking through your favourite books for ideas?

We've tried everything.

We just don't like any boys names.

Are you going to find out the gender beforehand?

Just stick "son" on the end of your girl's name; job done...