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!

Sounds like a plan :o

You can maybe go for something outside the top 100 but not so "unusual". So, if you take away the unusual criteria, what are your top requirements?

Teddy

Leon is only a hitman in one film!
Im sure somebody somewhere could think of a bad cconnotation for any name - whether someone they know, a friend of a friend of a friend, or character in a film/book/play/tv series etc.

Conrad or Cormac? more Irish than Scots I think but two that DH has offered up in our boy name search (because he has friends called them )

Gifford? bit random but my grandad's middle name which I am drawn towards but DH thinks is ridiculous. Think it is Norse.

We are also really struggling with boys names so I will be returning to this thread if we produce one at the end of Feb! I'm a big believer in having a shortlist then seeing what baby looks like, worked first time.

From this list Griff is my new fave!

I hate to admit such snobbery, but if I see a CV from a 'Charles' or 'Thomas', I will think more of them than a 'Dean' or a 'Beckham'

Er, so have Charles or Thomas then. Sorted.

Do any lesser used Celtic names tickle you?

Bradan
Brennan
Callan
Cavan
Carrick
Grady
Lorcan
Oran
Senan

Leon is a hitman to me. To my mind.

Charles is boring, Thomas is my brother

Gifford is a town in Scotland. Not a name.

Griff is also awful sorry!

Bunny I don't hate those names, but they don't excite me. Some are a bit 'made up', some are just flimsy.

Fair enough .

Are surname-y names a yay or a nay??

Give us one word to describe the style of names you like?

Oh lord. I don't know?

Yes surnamey names are a yay, I think. I am certainly open to them.

Nothing totally weird.
Nothing spelled alternatively.
Nothing that's made up.
Nothing 'classic' or top 50ish.

I think this may be a wind-up designed to allow the OP to slag every single boy's name that Mumsnetters have ever come up with!

Oh no... I do like some!

It is beginning to sound like a wind up, no one can be this fussy surely??!!

Though you did say you liked Caleb so can't you just go for that?

I did disclaim in the OP that I was fussy!

I do like Caleb. It's not exciting me, but it is perfectly nice and I am likely going to HAVE to use it as I don't like anything else, and we are on 213 messages

Beckett? Clark?

You are reading too much in to the names.
Once you use the name it becomes your child name, not a film or TV show character.
Dexter isn't a serial killer, it's a name. There is a TV show of the same name but who cares, it's not the same as calling your kid Eastenders!
Ellis is your cousins surname, so what?
Leon is a film character in a film ages ago, step out of the 90's!

Also you say you think more of a Thomas or Charles, but then say you like
Grey, Jackson and Brodie all horrendous IMO.

Stop trying to overthink it.

It's called a Ferris Wheel because the man who designed the first one was called Ferris.

I have just the name you need... and it's... Quentin.
I wish I would have used it for my ds, it's lovely.

Yeah, the man who designed it is called George Ferris. Not first name Ferris!

notso
Naming my child is a big deal to me. I am overthinking it, because I have regrets with my first DS's name. I wish I had considered it more and not picked a top 10.

I know a 5yo called Leon. Every single time I hear his name, I think of the film.

I see my cousins a lot, but we aren't close particularly. Naming my child after their surname would be really odd.

I don't care if other people find my choice horrendous. I just want to find something that I like and am comfortable using.

I really don't like Quentin.

I think it sounds rather pretentious. Sorry!

Beck

Nelson

Capability

Maximillian

Julian

Jared

Merry yep, sure.

Julian Clary.
Jared the Goblin King.

These are what come to my mind.

I'd go for Capability then. Good, solid name. And what's wrong with Julian Clary?

Nothing wrong with him. It's just not the connotation I want when I think of my child.

Also sounds like Julia and that's SIL.

Capability. Great idea.

There is NO NAME in existence that won't have an association for you. So do yourself a favour and accept that you're not going to find one.