A brother for Elodie?

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We chose Elodie because we thought it was really pretty and uncommon where we live, and because we loved it as soon as we heard it, not because it was French, and now we've found out our next dc is a boy we're a bit stumped! There's no name that totally jumps out at us as "the one" like Elodie's did and our long term favourite boys name was taken by a very close friend!

We quite like the idea of a Biblical name or another French name, but we have a double barrelled surname so don't want anything too pretentious.

Any suggestions?!

Beau
Otto
Leon

Christian.

Leon
Otto

I know an Elodie with a brother called Leo Henry

Elodie and...

Kit
Max
Oscar
Jamie
Findlay
Fraser
Conrad

Malachi

I think the pp meant Blaise.
a few French names:
Henry
Pierre
Jacques
Marcel
Michael
Pablo
Jean
August
Victor

And sorry, I meant to type Michiel, but it autocorrected

Guillaume
Etienne
Olivier
Roger
Wilfred
Yves
Christian
Nico
Xavier

Leo, Louis, Jacob, Benjamin, Toby, Beau

also, tell me about Elodie. it's on our list for this bump, does it ever get shortened and if so to what? I love it but not keen on elle type nicknames.

Love Remy and Blaise

Elodie and George go nicely I think

My DD is Elodie! Never gets shortened to Elle/Ellie/Ella by anyone - her nursery friends nicknamed her Dee Dee so she gets that or just Dee.

My boys list was...
George
Edward (Teddy)
Frederick
Arthur
Oliver
Sebastian
Jacob
Elliott
Elijah
Laurence
Isaac
Benedict

But now I have crossed off Edward and other E names as I wouldn't want to look like I was following some twee E theme....

Oh I also recently met someone with a DD called Elodie, and a DS Daniel...

Felix
Christian
Sebastian
Christoff
Crispin
Henri

Leon
Bruno
Laurent
Laurence
Julien/Julian
Damien
Xavier

I saw your thread title and I heard Ray in my head. Elodie (pronounced like melody) and Ray. God only knows why, Ray (Ramond) isn't a name I'd thought of before but Elodie and Ray are in my head now!

We have a Lucas and if we ever to have a girl would call her Elodie. Beautiful name and think they sound lovely together... Lucas & Elodie.

Elodie is gorgeous! On my list for yet-to-be-conceived number two. How about...

Daniel
Flynn
Fraser
Isaac (Elodie and Isaac sounds great!)
Marcus
Lewis
William

Oh there's some really good ones here! I do like Daniel and dh likes Laurent, we both like Etienne a lot too!

babybump , you're probably going to cringe but we shorten dd's name to Ellie! Noone else does, not even her friends, but it just kind of happened

Ooops, meant babyblabber, sorry!

Reuben is good, or how about Quentin?

Ruben (I like this spelling - Spanish spelling?) is lovely and I think could be Roo or Ben, both are fab - Roo cute for a tiny and Ben for later or for a more 'serious' boy.

I have such a problem with boys names - I find i can easily project myself into the future with girls names and imagine them at each stage of life etc, which I think makes it easier to choose - but boys don't seem as 'natural' to me at all!

My little boy (I took the full 6 weeks to name him and only had 2 names on my shortlist...!!!) is called Rafe - which I adore and might be a good match for Elodie?

Ruben is on my list this time too! Good luck

not cringe but I suspect we would end up doing the same (especially DH who insists on nicknaming our kids despite my protestations!). I LOVE the name Elodie, it's just gorgeous, but do think nicknames are inevitable so probably won't use it

Oh I thought of another one - I love William, but can't use it because it's already used with close family.

Also like Christopher NN Kit. Kit and Elodie sounds cute!