Share your boys name shortlist

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We are having trouble coming up with a boys name, and have just found out we are expecting a boy. Would love to hear what your boys name shortlist is as we are struggling for inspiration! Thanks xxx

My two DS' are Samuel and Frederick (Sam and Fred).

With DCs 3 and 4 (ended up being girls) we considered:

• Julian
• Reuben
• Marlon
• Oscar
• Thomas
• Watson

Our son is called Kit

Other names we liked were

Jude
Will
Ash
Seth
James / Jim
Fitz
Hugo
Rufus
Rafferty
Bruce (my OH more than me)
Nate
Flynn
Huck
Gerard
Eden

Oh and Emmett....

Sullivan
Alexander
Rudi
Rhuaridh

Quentin
Marcus
Reuben

Ours is
Jude
Jesse
Rudy
Xander

Top names:

Arik
Yonatan
Hector
Jonathan
Emmett

Other names floating around
Ignatius
Yaron
Elric
Gabriel
Erasmus
Peregrine
Julius
Cormac
Ulrik
Bertram

Gabriel
Nicholas (with nn Nico)
Rufus
Robin
Tobias
Flynn

Like William, Edward and Arthur as middle names but wanted something a little more unusual for the first as our surname is incredibly common.

Forgot Darwin and Cassian, which were our left-field choices!

Osian
Taliesin
Jago
Felix
Nathaniel
Robert
Edward

The thing about name lists is that you are inclined to put on them names that you think you like but when you are faced with an actual baby you just think are a bit ridiculous :)

Names I've used or would still use are:

Gregor
Struan
Keir
Kerr
Craig
Alastair

Names I love are:
Ivo
Asa
Bram
Abel
Kit
Ezra - can't have cause my partners surname has a strong Z sound :(
Clement

Wilbur
Rory
Lars
Daniel
Caleb

Not a shortlist as such, but my favourite boy names ATM are:

Wilfred
Josiah
Edmund
Vincent
Abraham
Hugo
Arthur

Gabe, Hamish, Gil, Rufus, Angus, Hugo.

Nigel
Matthew
Josiah
Riley
Patrick
Timothy
Adam
Laurence
Samuel
Harry
Harvey
Terence

Ichabod
Ezekiel
Malachi
Xavier
Noah
Tobias
Gideon

Leo

Julious, roman, Alex, Benjamin, Joseph, Kobe, Calvin, Cameron, asher, shilo, idris, moses, Ashley, Gabriel, franklyn, levi

Marcus
Jonathan
Anderson
Brandon
Lemuel

Have already:

Alexander (Alex)
Gabriel (Gabe)

Shortlist:

George
Hugo
Tobias

Longer list:

Levison (Lev)
Oliver
Montgomery/Montague (Monty)
James
Nathaniel (Nate)
Theodore (Theo/Ted/Teddy)
Edward (Ted/Teddy)
Laurence (Laurie)
Benedict
Henry
William
Rafferty
Raphael
Samuel
Joseph
Rufus
Angus

My boys name list is this:
Oscar (my no.1 option)
Finlay
Jacob
Luca
Nathaniel

My shortlist for ds was
Alexander
Benjamin
Jack
Oliver
William
Names I love but dh hated
Adam
Miles
Sebastian
Seth
Names loved but rejected because already had friends/family with same
Daniel
Edward
Jacob
Jamie

My boys shortlist is a pretty short list!

First names:

William
Nathaniel
Zachary
Noah
Elliot
David

Middle names:
Bryan (DH's name}
Jack
James
Raphael

Eric
Henry
Bobby