Boys' names - help! Warning - very difficult task!

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We are struggling to think of even one name we both like. Both fairly fussy.

Criteria:

2 syllables ideally, but no more than 3.
Can't end with an M or an S
Preferably doesn't start with B, R, L
No nature names

To fit with our separate preferences, it can't be too unusual but neither can it be too strongly traditional.

Definitely not:
Henry, Arlo, Frederick, John, Ian, William, Neo, Scott, Leo

Names that one of us quite likes and the other is a bit 'meh, maybe' about:
Kester
Owen
Zeno
Ruan/Rewan
Elwyn
Quinlan
Jared
Cooper
Eisley
Gibson
Cameron
Ivan
Lennox/Lenox
Ned
Sydney/Sidney
Kitto
Lowen

If you have any suggestions please help! At the moment neither of us has anything we LOVE.

Cosmo. I have one and he is fab!

scottishmummy, I didn't know that! I quite like Ned.

almapudden those are all a bit too fussy - needs to be something quite plain to appeal to DH I think.

Thinking about it more, I would say he is drawn to names that are simple, easy to spell and have absolutely no try-hard or posh connotations. And he has to have heard of it before.

How about finding yours and your husbands name meanings and going through the lists of those names that share a meaning?

I don't think of Zeke as overly biblical anymore, def different perceptions

Horatio
Beau
Barnabas
Benedict
Caspian
Krispin
Kit
Homer
Humphrey
Sayer
Orson
Vaughn
Vincent
Victor

Buggar forgot about b/s that's Barnabas out!

Calling your kid ned would be akin to naming him scrote

news fir the neds

Joel
Hayden / Aidan
Clinton
Jasper
Casper
Gregor
Xander
Cohen
Carlton
Damon
Ezra
Wilson
Wilbert
Gilbert
Albert
Niall
Jenson
Jackson
Clayton
Yannick
Fabian
Jefferson
Ciaran

Saxon
Roman
Norman
Jute
Dane
Scot

Eric

Elliott
Kipling
Cameron
Hamish
Rudjard
Tegid

Based upon your recent post about your husband wanton something not try hard or posh but a recognisable name then I feel like you are looking for a name like 'Leo' but not starting with an 'L'

Only thinks I can think of that feels similar is Max, but suspect that's too mainstream.

Haha - just reread your OP and see that Leo is a definite no

I'm sorry to be the barer of bad news but I had a similar desire to call my DC something uncommon but not weird, try-to-hard or pretentious and eventually realised it's just not possible.

You will just have to call him Oliver, Harry or Jack.

In the end we just chose the names we liked the most even if they were more popular than we would have liked.

Taryn
Tate
Wilder
Claus
Skander
Struan

Yes, Kantha, you're right - something short and straightforward but not Max or Leo. Or anything else I can think of!

I know, Bomber, I think I have reached that conclusion as well. DH hasn't though - and I just want to be able to have a bit of a shortlist, even if it's just a couple of options, before I am actually pushing the baby out.

Matthew

We had similar criteria (although we wanted Irish lite) and our list was pretty much:
Cian
Finn
Cade
Emerson
Ciaran

We decided on Cian on the way to hospital!

How about Florian? shortened to Flo.

Unusual, but easily spelt and pronounced.

I'm pretty sure some posters are throwing in the occasional 'joke' suggestion. some of these suggestions are quite out-there

Arie

Leon or Tate?

Florian too feminine-sounding for me.

Joke suggestions are fine too - anything that might spark an idea!

How do you pronounce Cian, Calpol?

Aneurin
Espen
Leander (if you can accept the "L")

How about:

Saxon
Maxian/ Maxim
Lionel
Sacha
Otto
Niall
Otis
Aris
Erik
Darin