Is Griffin a contender?

[Mrsfullhouse]

Ok! I am struggling hideously with a name for the little boy who is about to make a grand entrance in my life.

I have previous threads highlighting my 'issues' (crazy super rich and upper class Mil, wet husband rooting for the boring names, stupid stupid surname)

So...

Griffin House (does it sound a bit Harry Potterish)
Lysander House (Lice House??? Sandy House???)
Thomas House (sooooooo boring?)

Lysander and Thomas have been floating around, but never really loved etc. Griffin is new.

Help...

OP - I don't think that Joseph and House would run together. On the page, we see two of the letter 'h', but the final sound of one name and the first sound of the second name are not the same. I'd say 'Joseff House' .

I really like Joseph as a name.

Geordie as nn for george?

Maybe fight the madness with madness and go alliterative
Henry House
Harold House
Harlan House
Harry House
Hugh House
Hank House
Horton House
Homer House

Heir & a spare? Are you royalty? Also unsure about teaching DS1 to call MIL Gollum, could lead to some embarrassment somewhere along the line .

Name wise, my suggestion would be Jeremy (nn Jem)?

Ok.

Dh just emailed me.

Looks like Jonty is a winner (Dh ex cricketer and Jonty Rhodes is a good thing apparently?)

So.... Jonathan.

Top three searches on Google...

Jonathan Ross (twat)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (sexy but wife beater)
Jonathan King (paedo)

No wonder I have negative connotations. With the name!!!

However, Jonathan House is neither a museum, stately home or a mental institution.

Jonty is awesome.

Could this be it? Could I have found the holy grail (posh, but not too posh. Normal, but not common. Not too stately home... Not racially offensive)

Even though I really hate it!!
To be honest though, I hated the name Arthur until I first saw him smile and saw that he really was an Arthur- Mil managed to blackmail her way into that one... I wanted Theodore- (now taken!))

Jonathan??

Haven't read all the other names suggested but thought I would list a few.

Patrick
Lachlann
Allister
Broden
Camden
Fraiser
Lyle
Blake
Nathan
Rodrick

The other way round, but we called DS [full version of name] when I really disliked [obvious shortening of name]. He's still mostly [long version] but some of his friends call him [short version] and it doesn't bother me at all now, because now I associate the name with him rather than the previous bad associations I had with it.

Which I think is similar to what you're saying about Jonty/Jonathan. If you love Jonty and call him that on a day-to-day basis to begin with I think that a year or two down the line you'll find that you feel quite positive about the name Jonathan too now.

Names ending in -el might work? Daniel? Nathaniel? Samuel? nn Dan/Danny, Nat/Nate, Sam/Sammy?

I know an Albert Hall that uses his middle name and although House is worse, they must have been round and round with his names (and his two brothers).

Are you going to need to go through the whole thing again to find a middle name(s) or is it one of those occasions where you have to use a family name that has existed from time immemorial?

When I saw the OP I thought this was meant to be in the politics topic

So, no.

Can you go double-barrelled?

er...

Casper
Rory is good
Angus
Gregor

Santa- In laws have the kind of old money that dictates an heir and a spare, the big house and estate goes to the eldest son in each generation, so next is Dh and then Ds1.

I think it's ridiculous and would rather sell the crumbling travesty, which costs thousands and thousands each year to up keep and buy the kids a farm each and spend the rest on holidays and diamonds! (have a secret wish to be Elizabeth Taylor)

Dh really did marry below his station!

Gollum is coming out as 'gumnum' at the moment, which she's leaping on a grandma. Little does she know (rubs hands together in evil fashion)

I know 2 great guys called jonathan so can't think of it relating to the others! Its a good name with a great nn imo!

Fingers crossed for you!

Jonathan/Jonty is a great name, although it's not popular at the moment it is well know enough that most people won't associate it with any one famous.

If you hate it for reasons other than famous namesakes then it's not the one, you have said that your DH has vetoed names you like so obviously you can do the same and he will need to compromise.

Jago.

No, middle name will be James after my father.

Jonathan James House

ooh, just got a little tingle.

Just going to totally disregard Jonathan as if it doesn't exist and call him Jonty. always!

Bring on the embroidery needles me thinks!!!!

Sorry posted too soon by compromise I mean if your DH really wants to please his mother that he might have to accept that he needs to let you have any name you like that fits in with mil's rules even if he's not that keen on it.

I think you need a more name like name than griffin, to stop it sounding like the name of a building.

Though it still isn't great :/ Bloody surnames!

You could go all hyacinth bucket and say it's pronounced hose ay? :p

Has Grayson been suggested?
This gray or sonnie are nice nn

Smable- you're right, will Mil's rules and regulations, all of the forbidden 'takens' and Dh's veto, this is becoming too hard.

The trouble is, I don't really love any name,so don't really have any guns to stick too as it were.

I think Jonathan James is very good for what you need, and Jonty good too.

Jonathan and Arthur are a good solid pair too!

Jonty was the first name we both suggested and agreed on (did a little list in a hat when six weeks pregnant- how naive I was!)
So we may have gone full circle.

Now ladies.... I'm not sure if the tightening that I've been feeling are because of Bratton hicks, warm water, or genuine full blown start to this circus, but I don't think I have very long left to decide!!!!!!!!!!!

Jonathan James is great! Let us know when he is here!

Mrsfullhouse I feel your pain I had similar issues naming my ds2, not mil but my DH is very conformist so vetoed lots of names I love because they are too unusual.

I do think your DH need to accept that if he chooses to give his mother a say then he is doing so at the expense of he own.

I understand about you not loving any name but that doesn't mean you should make do with something you hate.

Suddenly stopped hating the name Jonathan... I think this is because the little bugger is about to start pushing his way out of my Lady bits and it suddenly doesn't seem so bloody important !!!!!

Dh has just pointed out that on our first date I laughed at him because I had a copy of Jonathan Livingston Seagull in my bag and he asked if I liked bird spotting.

Dh on his way home.

We have code red...

Hoping to be able to introduce you to Jonathan James House this afternoon... That is, if I haven't gone all bonkers and named him Ordering Florian (you have permission to shoot me if this happens!!!!!)

Thank you lovely ladies xxc

Yay Jonathan is lovely.