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Baby boy due soon and I have a three names that I love but can't pick one.

Bowie Eoghan William

Argyle Eoghan William

Anais Eoghan William

Erm.
I don't like any of those.
I do live in England, and only speak English, but am in a fairly multicultural part of the country so used to names that sound unusual to my ears. However, you've listed a type of knife, a type of knitting, and a French girls name there....... Not sure why you'd want to call a boy any of those.

Bowie is the best of a bad bunch, I'm afraid.

I would assume an Anais was a girl, I've only ever seen that used for girls.

Isn't Anais a girl's name?

I'm afraid I don't like any of the first names either. Eoghan and William are nice.

Please use William... Bowie is better than the other first names though!

Bowie is nice. Are/were you a David Bowie fan.
Argyle. No. Its awful
Anais. Very very feminine. There's even a perfume named Anais Anais.

Anaïs is à french girls name, please don't use for a boy.

We are a Scottish family which is why we chose more Scottish names.

I prefer the feminine spelling of Anais as the masculine gaelic is Aeneas and for some reason I'm not a fan of that spelling

Sorry Op, Aeneas is a Latin name, not Gaelic. However it was sometimes used as a Latin "equivalent" of Angus (although not actually related) so would Angus be a possibility?

Or perhaps Anesius, the "proper" Latinised form of Angus?

I quite like Bowie and Argyle, although I prefer the Argyll spelling.

I really like the middle names. Whatever you do though please don't use Anais - giving your son a name not dissimilar to 'anus' and then using the girls' version of it might give him a hard time at school.

Anais is a girls name; not unisex. Please don't do that to your ds. Would you call a dd Andrew because you don't like the way Angela looks?

There are lots of lovely Gaelic names, but I'm afraid those three aren't.

Anais is a girl's name.

Argyle is a fugly pattern.

Bowie is fine, but it'll be assumed that you're Bowie fans and is "too soon" after his death, IMO.

Middle names ok, but dislike the first names

Angus? Gus for short?

Bowie if it has to be one of those.

Of the three you've listed I'd go for argyle eoghan. Is eoghan pronounced the same as Euan? If so I prefer that as a first name if it's an option. Argyle is cool though.

Is eoghan pronounced the same as Euan?

Usually pronounced like Owen.

OP, like others have said, Anais is a French girls name - being Scottish has nothing to do with it!

Bowie and Argyle - good solid boys names. I too find Anaïs too feminine.

Anais is a French girls name. Not keen on the other two either. How about Aonghus or Eneas?

I only like eoghan and William sorry!

I like "Eoghan William Argyle".

If you call him Argyle spelt like that people will assume you're big Plymouth Argyle fans. Bowie sounds as if you're calling him after the singer. And Anais is a girl's name. Eoghan is nice. And so is William.

Bowie.

Please please don't call a boy Anais.

Anais is most definitely not a boy's name.

And argyle isn't a name at all, surely?

Is Bowie a name!?