Found out we're having a boy and we don't like any names!!

[Writerwannabe83]

We had loads of lovely girls names in mind, I was convinced we would be told it's a girl and DH had even joked that we'd be screwed if it was a boy as he'd have to be nameless.

When we had DS we found out at 16 he was a boy and by the time I had him at 39 weeks we still hadn't agreed on a name, I didn't feel strongly about anything. My DH named him, it was a name I didn't even particularly like but I didn't like anything else either.

So now we are faced with naming another boy and we're in the exact same situation.

DH has come up with a few suggestions that he likes: Reece, Cameron and Lewis are his latest but I'm so completely nonchalant about them.

We don't want anything weird or old fashioned but nor do we want something common. I work with babies aged 0-2 and see about 40 new patients a week so at least I know which common names to avoid....but then it makes it harder when my husband suggests names which I know to be really popular and I tell him no for that reason.

Maybe I could just give the baby one of girl'a names?

Why are boys names so hard?

I desperately need inspiration!!!

Blah I am exactly the same with girls names,
I feel totally indifferent to every name on our list. I really thought we would have a boy this time and had loads of names I loved.

Some more traditional names;

Harry
Jamie
Jack
William
George
Jake
Adam
Michael
Joshua
Matthew
James
Charlie

It sounds as if the problem is not that there are no names you like - more that there are no names you both like.
Toby and Daniel are both great names, such a shame your DH has vetoed them.
But then I'm not a fan of the name he chose for your first DS or the names on his shortlist for DS2 so clearly I don't share his taste!

Ducking i like Emilio, have seen it on a fb friends page. I also really like Nico

@Writerwannabe83 I am in agreement with you! I loved girls names and had plenty to choose from, but boys I couldn't think of any!!
We liked Harry but in my job (I'm a teacher) I found so many children to be called Harry and unfortunately the job does put you off certain names! We really liked the name Harvey instead as it was similar but slightly more rare but not too out there!
If your husband likes Blaze, why not go for a one letter change and have something like Blake?

Please do let us know what you decide!

Aidan???

namechange - can I swap my DH for you and then I can call the baby Daniel

I do like Matthew, that's been on my mind throughout the day so I'm going to put it forward to DH when he gets home later. My guess though is that he will think it's too 'plain' as that's why he said he doesn't like Daniel. He said it was "too" safe a choice.

I love William as a name but my sister's son has that name.

I also like Finn, but I don't like Finley or Finlay.

And we're trying to avoid names beginning with an A as we don't want both sons having names starting with the same letters as for some reason I just find it odd

I do like Harrison but I'm not sure if it would be strange to have an Arron and a Harrison because the end letters are the same - they just seem a bit too similar or something

I do keep going back to Lewis and trying to work out if the fact it's practically an anagram of our surname is reason enough to rule it out.

What about Louie. Do you like that

Paul
Nicholas
James
Hugo
Hector
Antony

Luke or Lucas?

Louie - I don't like it because it makes me think of Donald Duck and also a member of One Direction who I always found really irritating

Lucas - my best friend has a Lucas and for some reason I really dislike the name anyway.

I just asked DH if he liked the name Matthew but he says he doesn't like it because it's "too old"

Brett ?

Scott?
Marti?

Elan, Edan or Eden. All would go great with Aaron.

We decided on DS's name the night before the appointment to register him at 4 weeks, so I feel your pain. By that time, we'd called him a pet name for a month so he was stuck with that for the next five years until he put his foot down and insisted on his proper name.

If your DH named DS1 then surely it's your choice this time >helpful

I've tried that argument

Isaac goes really well with a one syllable surname, and goes well with your sons name too.
Oscar, Oliver, Joey, felix, Marcus, Thomas?

I think Isaac is probably our second favourite at the moment. DH doesn't like Thomas for the same reason he doesn't like Daniel and Matthew.

I hate the name Oscar.....can't stand it

Finnbar

What about Blake, similar to Blaze but a bit more acceptable!

Blake
Rory
Callum
Corey
William
Zander

Ollie
Ben
Freddie
Max
Joshua
Charlie
Jack
James

New suggestion: Patrick.

Shame he didn't go for Danny. I was in a similar situation when naming my son. Had tonnes of ideas for girls but none for boys. All the names we thought of we didn't actually like that much. Then my DH suggested Danny, I'd ruled out Daniel I thought but I liked the idea of Danny. So my son is Danny and it suits him very well. He's officially Daniel but never called it, we almost put Danny on the birth cert but thought he may want to have a 'more serious' name at some point

Ellis
Elias
Eliot

We didn't have any names until the baby (unknown sex) was born and thought about it then and both times the names just came to us.

I suggest Nicholas.