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He's due on Tuesday - what's his name?!

29 replies

Indianajonesismyhero · 03/08/2014 21:35

Right. We need a name for this baby - or some ideas that I can take downstairs to thrash out with his dad, at least.

Restrictions:
surname is two syllables and starts with R - although I like a lot of alliterative names, somehow they don't seem to work with R.

No "th" sounds because of local accent (including baby's dad and siblings - so Maffew and Feo are off the table!)

No hard "t" sounds in middle or at the end for same reason (Pee-uh, Rober' etc).

I like, but various people have been rude about:

Silas (redolent of silage/sinus, apparently - thanks for ruining that, drunk colleague)
Jonah/Jonas (teeth sucking, bad luck at sea - thank you MIL)
Ridley ( so cool but utterly utterly ridiculous with our surname)
Rudy (ditto)
Seth (issue with accent)

Given these ideas that we probably won't use, could any kind person please suggest something we might both like that avoids these stringent restrictions? Also, James is off the table as bro and sis in law have bagged it already.

Thanks!

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myotherusernameisbetter · 03/08/2014 21:56

Eli
Ira
Noah
Lucas
Mark
Josiah/Joe

myotherusernameisbetter · 03/08/2014 21:59

Marcus
Levi
Jonathan - could still use Jonah as a nn?
Simon
Gregory

gymboywalton · 03/08/2014 21:59

Alex
Luke
joel
ashley
jonathan
lewis

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 03/08/2014 22:00

Milo
Fergus
Otis
Frankie
Toby

myotherusernameisbetter · 03/08/2014 22:01

Edgar
Oscar
Emerson
Jacob
Michael

Indianajonesismyhero · 03/08/2014 22:01

Thank you - food for discussion! I really like Levi but taught one just this year; would it be weird to use that? I would feel like I was naming him after this kid at school ( a nice kid, but still)...

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InkleWinkle · 03/08/2014 22:01

Alex
Luke
Connor
Keiran
James

myotherusernameisbetter · 03/08/2014 22:04

presume you are not teaching him now and even so, the child would be thrilled :)

When my son's teacher was having a baby they all suggested their own names...except my son who suggested she call it Susan - weird child with a strange taste in names :o

ButterflyOfFreedom · 03/08/2014 22:16

Linus
Amos
Nathan
Leon
Xavier
Xander
Dominic
Christian
Drew
Jared
Caleb
Gabriel
Harris
Owen
Lucas
Aidan
Hayden
Cole
Zachary

MyPreciousRing · 03/08/2014 22:18

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Theonlyoneiknow · 03/08/2014 22:25

Joshua
Lucas
Alexander
Kyle
Calum
Finlay

Harrison
Murray
Jacob
Euan
Alban
Sebastian
Gabriel
Gregor
Duncan
Jackson
Lewis

Indianajonesismyhero · 03/08/2014 23:07

Some great names; thank very much for taking the time to answer. Amos is one I really like too - will see what he looks like when he emerges!

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Jumblebee · 03/08/2014 23:16

His name is Toby Grin

Ok, maybe it isn't, but just from reason your thread title Toby just popped into my head (and it fits your criteria Wink)

I have to be honest, I'm not very keen on any of the names you suggested, because I like very vanilla names (please see above)

Jumblebee · 03/08/2014 23:18

*reading, not reason! D'oh! Confused

Indianajonesismyhero · 03/08/2014 23:28

I do like simple names too, but just come across so many as a teacher. I gave my elder two kids real names (ie not made up ones!) but names where I'd never actually met someone with that name already.

His name's not Toby, sorry - taught a really moody one fifteen year old one a couple of years ago! Maybe he was moody because he outgrew his name aged 8 (sorry, but I can't picture a grown-up Toby! Or Archie, or Alfie or any of those cutesy names that come up a lot these days...)

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Jumblebee · 03/08/2014 23:33

I realised after I posted that I lied, I DO like Jonas/Jonah, because of the rather pleasing man who played Robin Hood in the BBC series!

Toby reminds me of Toby Maguire who always seemed like a bit of a wet blanket, I'm sorry to suggest giving your beautiful baby a wet blanket name Hmm random names pop into my head despite knowing I'd never use them. I'm sure the right name will come along soon Smile

just don't ever agree to the name your DP really wants because you will regret it and use it against him for the rest of your days, I speak from bitter experience

burgatroyd · 04/08/2014 06:48

Brody nn for Broderick
Sam
Isaac

temporarilyjerry · 05/08/2014 14:58

If you like Levi, I think you should go for it. I wanted to call DD Amelia with nn Millie but didn't because I had a girl with that name (and nn) in my class at the time. Of course 11 years later, I don't know her although Amelia is so popular now so maybe I dodged a bullet.

BlueChampagne · 06/08/2014 15:26

Conrad

Gingerjv · 06/08/2014 20:12

Elijah/Eliah, Issac, Oscar, Caspar, Aaron. Connor, Killian, Donovan

BotBotticelli · 06/08/2014 20:59

Keir. (biased. I have one and he is a little dude)

Rivercam · 07/08/2014 18:55

Kyle
Tristan
Malek
Milo
Howard
Kieran
Josiah
Grant
Lloyd
Bryn
Glyn

LondonRocks · 07/08/2014 18:58

Before I RTFT I thought Joshua

Indianajonesismyhero · 07/08/2014 21:47

Well, it turns out his name is Jonas... Because it just felt right, we liked it all along and when it came to the crunch it didn't matter if people had been a bit negative - it was his NAME, damnit! Thanks for taking the time to reply, don't think I'll be needing this bit of mumsnet again - we're done now! Xxxx

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BlueChampagne · 08/08/2014 14:42

Congratulations!

I'm sure you'll be back - if only to give others the benefit of your wisdom Grin

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