A boys' name to rival Huckleberry

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A friend at work has a little boy called Huckleberry (known as Huck).

I LOVE it but obviously can't copy it, as it's SO unique.

Can anyone think of any 'similarly' out-there but cute/cool names for boys?? Ds2 is due in the summer and I am struggling with an awesome, strong, interesting, unique name for him.

Interested in names from nature, literature, don't mind surnames-as-forenames in some cases...just something that stands out a bit from the kings and saints...

I DONT like: the trend for old-man names, or boys' names that sound too soft/feminine (I would put things like Robin, Caspar into this camp).

Help! Any ideas! What's the most awesome boys name you've ever heard??

Orson is great!

I know a (grown up) Haydn, it doesn't seem to cause him too many problems,but tbh I don't really like it (and he is a massive tory which puts me off the name a bit tbh (he is a nice person, apart from the tory - ness)

I also know a Sachin who I thought was called Satchel for quite some time..

I think there was a ) missing there somewhere...

Agreed. Love Orson
Leon
Dante
Huxley

Meriweather
Ebeneezer
Mandrake
Oberon
Bramwell
Artemus
Bartholemew
Cornelius
Langdon
Quatermain
Phileas

Unfortunately Hadyn has taken on certain demographics in these parts....which you may wish to avoid....

Danger rabbit loving Bramwell

Mr Darcy (sooner or later you know someone will put that on a birth certificate)
Knightley
Hiawatha (Tomahawk?)
Crusoe (Robinson obviously way too mundane)
Gulliver
Ivanhoe

Gryphon
Fauntleroy
Sparrowhawk

Fabian.

Sacha

Silas

What about Hareton?

One of my faves.

I think Huckleberry is an awful name and really offended a friend by begging her not to call her baby that.

But Huck rhymes too easily and a boy will get teased for the berry bit. It's like turning your child into a bullying target (though some people said that about DS2's name and within a year it was in the top 10.)

Love some of these suggestions, especially Zephaniah. Came on to suggest Zebedee but Zephaniah's a better name to grow into.

Zachary is nice too.

Or Rafael - Raffy or Rafe for short.

Wilberforce

Kester
Innes
Rolf
Rollo

Harrison, could be Harry as a nn.

If you want to go down the socialist route, you could do worse than Eugene, after Eugene Debs, one of the American founders of the Wobblies.

Gene for short.

Reuben
Auden
Hunter
Griff
Malachi
Jules (Verne)
Also love Leon and Atticus from PPs.

Hate it. Atticus has grown on me

Has anyone said Ramsay? As in Ramsay MacDonald, first Labour PM in the UK.

Clement (Attlee)

Tony (Benn)

Bob (Crow)

Oo Gene is strong & interesting, more so than huckleberry

I've always had a bit of a yen for Fletcher, after Fletcher Christian from The Bounty.

Orson is rhyming slang for fart via Orson Cart ('orse and cart).
Not quite as magnificently ill-advised as Huckleberry but still not a great idea.

Albus
Aldous
Baxter
Montgomery
Jonty
Rufus
Xander
Benedict

Montgomery
Cameron
Emerson
Harrison
Forester
Broderick
Humphrey
Rafferty
Herbert
Reuben

Orson reminds me of desperate housewives or mork and mindy

Another vote for Montgomery!

I came on this thread to suggest Bramwell but was pipped!