unsual / uncommon boy names needed!!!

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hello!!

I'm due in August with my 2nd little boy and me and the oh are really struggling for names!! We want something unusual but not off the wall!! any ideas or suggestions would be great!!At the moment we have Roan - which i love!!but need a few more

Peter

Peter, Mark, Paul, David, Timothy.

Basically, check the ONS lists. A lot of what you presume to be tare before you are around lots of small children isn't. Noah, for example.

Seth
Rowan
Alaric
Elijah
Angus
Xavier

I know three Roans/Rowans under Two.

I know there Xaviers too.
Angus is my dog.

I know a Seth and an Angus. Both under 5 yrs.

There's also a David and a Christopher at DC's nursery, which are unusual names for small boys.

My Dn is Richie you don't get many of them now
Kevin
Mike
Derek
Eric
Alan
Gabriel (however becoming more popular now, though)
Steve

Roan is a horse colour (although the spelling might be different).

Strawberry roan is lovely, a sort of mixture of grey and chestnut. Or blue roan, which is more of a Smokey blue colour.

Sorry. For me, calling a child roan would be like calling them palamino.

Do you want unusual names that are new names (such as roan) or unusual in that they are well known but not well used in the current generation?

Congratulations by the way - boys are fab.

I know several Rowans which I assume is pronounced like Roan? (Or is it Rone?) one of whom is a girl. I love the name though, but I don't think it is that unusual.

If you want uncommon then go back to the days of Mark, Andrew, Michael, Martin, Patrick, Edward. Not many of those around these days.

If you want unusual, I guess you are looking more for Silas, Octavius, Monty, Lorcan, Atticus, Rafael, Hunter, Bodhi, Dane...

hahahaha

Baby Steve

There's a Moby, a Joby and a Robeye at my school. (Though Moby has the nickname Dick )

Jago? Goes nicely with Roan.

Cyprian
Fidelis (had a friend at college whose brother was called this and thought it sounded so cool)
Otto
Rafael
Hendrick
Dara
Ezra (love this)
Ezekiel (Zeke)
Zachary/Zachariah
Kemuel

I like Roan but always think of it as a very feminine name.

my little boys name is milo.

I do really like Ezra too! I already have an Arlo so need something to go with that..I liked Roan because it's an Irish boys name and we both have Irish descendts..I just can't imagine a baby Kevin or baby Steve...so I guess it's unsual names I'm after

I loved milo but it's my cousin named her DS it the month before I was due! thankyou for all your comments

Oh, I thought you meant ds1 was Roan. Jago and Arlo too o-ey at the end!

I have an Arlo!

Boaz, Caleb, Jasper, Keir, Linus, Saul, Victor

Conrad
Wreford
Torin
Ashton
Archer
Heston

Nigel

Nigel is very underrated.

Not sure about Boaz though? Is that a typo?

Boaz is a Biblical name.

Luther
Roman
Vincent (Vinny for short)
Rudy
Rupert

Boaz isn't a typo - it is a biblical name (as ShadowFire rightly points out). I actually know a 7 year old Boaz.