Percy, Milo, other Greek boys' names?

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We're expecting our first in January, and have more or less agreed on a girls' name, but are struggling with boys' names. We're looking for something of Greek origin as DH is Greek Cypriot, but something that is not TOO Greek, will be easily pronounced in the UK, and won't be said TOO differently by English family and Greek family.

We both like Percy. Probably short for Persius.
We also both like Leo. Probably short for Leandros.

We're not so keen on the long versions but like the idea of a longer name that can be shortened.

I love Milo, but DH isn't as keen, largely because it's not short for anything. I'm also toying with Finn (short for Phineas).

What do you guys think of any/all of these? I think our issue is we don't like the longer versions as much as the short versions...but boys' names with Greek origin are so difficult without veering into the territory of gods and mythology!

Thank you! DH is Greek/German, I am Greek, we lived in the uk for a couple of decades, now live in France but were also thinking of returning to Greece so our main requirement for names was that they could be easily pronounced in all three languages. Neither is Greek in origin. I think Lily might be Germanic in origin and Max Roman? Max is short for Maximilianos which is the Byzantine version.

My mum was all set to have a stroke if we didn't name PFB after her, but we basically lied. We told her that FIL, Charalambos, was angling for Charalambia and to avoid that disaster we said no family names. I suspect there was still some hair pulling involved but she then remembered a distant auntie called Lily and decided it was 'our' family name so our family won I've DH's family and she was appeased. All's fair in love, war and when trying to survive a Greek family!

Ha ha ha at charalambia!
Our main family name is Alkiviadis... We told one of the current lucky owners of the name that we were thinking of using it for ds1 (we weren't!) and he sighed and said "no, please don't, the poor boy will be called Alka-Seltzer for half his life and Alki-holic for the rest like I have" !!!

Ps lily definitely used in Greek - my mum has a Thia Lily of some description. Although prob Lili... Wonder what it is short for?

I think Max is great, use that! At least they will be able to say it!

I love Alkiviadis...but only in a parallel universe populated exclusively by Ancient Greek scholars. My name is Nafsika so I would also do well in this imaginary world!

Leo would be leonidas wouldn't it?

How about:
Neo
Constantine - costas/ Conrad
Adrian
Miles - instead of milo
Sebastian
Zander
Timon

I was just about to suggest Constantine but see Artandco got there first!

I offer you (my) Cosmo. Greek/Italian heritage and easy to pronounce.

Milo is, imo, a fabulous name.

If you use Leandros or Persius, they might not get called Leo or Percy anyway!

Art Sebastian is definitely on my list! I love it. Leonidas/Leandros - yes Leo would usually be the former but we both pronounce it differently which bothers me...We found Leandros as a possible alternative

Oriunda - I've wondered a lot about Cosmo - I like it a lot but I'm worried DH and I aren't trendy enough to pull it off!

A few people suggested Constantine - funnily enough we had Constantina on our girls list so maybe should reconsider it for a boy too - I think Dino is quite a sweet nn

Diddl you are right of course about nn not necessarily being used, but isn't that always the case?! You just hope if you and family use it, it'll stick, right?

I'm not remotely trendy, nor is DH. I'm not sure that Cosmo is a trendy name - there were only 17 of them named last year (it took me ages to trawl the ONS survey looking for it!).

To be fair, DH is Italian, FIL is called Cosimo and SIL is a doctor, so Cosmo ticks a lot of boxes for us (as well as Greek/Italian origins, Cosmo is the patron saint of doctors - the name was first brought over to Scotland to honour the de Medici family).

I know it's a marmite name, but we love it and it really suits our little boy. So far, I've only had one nasty comment (from someone who clearly is an idiot!) - to my face, that is. I do like the Greek classics, and if DS had been a girl she would have been a Persephone, which perhaps gives you a clue as to what sort of names I go for!

No, I like Cosmo for sure - I also think it's lovely how it ties in to your family in different ways! I can imagine a little one called Cosmo being such an adorable little personality! I've added it to the list for discussion with DH. (Didn't mean trendy as in v popular by the way, just that it's a very cool name I think )

Ds1 has Thaddeus as middle name and we have Greek surname. Both children have Englishy first names though