Help! It's a boy!

[aroha77]

I'm 33 weeks and have just found out it's a boy! Thought I was keeping an open mind but I'm so surprised!! And we don't have any boy's names!

Older sister is called Olive which is difficult to 'match' with!

Any ideas

(Everyone who hated Indigo Joan on my previous thread can be glad to know that I can't use it )

What type of boys names do you like.
Modern
Traditional
Unusual
Biblical

Popeye

Patrick
Hugo
Chester
Dexter
Joel
Rory

Popeye

I think Olive matches plenty. Could have trad, modern, biblical, whacky ;) just trying a few out and Olive goes well with most things!

Olive and William
Olive and Jasper
Olive and Isaac
Olive and Zed
Olive and Innes

Not exactly recommending any of the above but I'm sure you don't need to worry too much about "matching"

Guide please as to what you like

Jago
Caspar
Felix
Harold
Hugo
Xavier
Indiana
Jasper
Ivan

Olive goes with lots:
Jude
Dexter
Noah
Eli
Sebastian
Seth
Toby
Herbie
Arthur
Monty

Depends what you're going for...

I think I like traditional but unusual...my fave girl options were Indigo and Merryn...

My great aunt is an Olive. Her husband was Jim (James). Her brother is Thomas. Sisters, May and Francis. Not sure if that's at all helpful!

I love Olive it's on my list for another girl so some boys names I like might be helpful...

Jude or Judah
Barnaby
Everett
Rafe
Hamish
Percival
Oscar
Rupert
Jonah
Gabriel
Samson
Flynn
Caleb
Tobias
Rufus
Ivor
Wilbur
And i
Julian
Atticus
Jasper
Raphael
Dominic
Edgar
Theodore
Joshua
Entry
Angus
Ezekiel
Matthias
Rowan

Any you like?

Alexander
Tristan
Joshua
Paxton
Solomon
Louis
Samuel

I love Rory

If you like Indigo for a girl, perhaps you'd like the Spanish name 'Inigo' for your son?

I think it needs to be something vintagey if you want it to "go" with Olive. Something like Arthur, Raymond, Reggie, Frederick, Sidney, Stanley...

Olive and Hudson

Inigo!

Bernard. Not unusual as such, but There's not many little Bernards running around now. Plus it's very traditional and vintage.

Alan See above

Barnaby
Sylvester
Austin
Jesse

I love Olive with Felix as suggested by a pp

I would also go with vintage, so any of beagle's suggestions or:

Wilfred
Leonard
Edmund
Ernest

Olive is on my list if we have an accident

My boys list (of which Ive used one of these):
Lawrence
Travis
Rex
Sid
Elliott
Leo
Dexter

Isambard
Bartholomew
John

It needs to be two syllables*, I think. The one that hit me as really going well out of the suggestions above is Jasper. Leonard and Louis work well too. I don't think a biblical name really goes, as much as I love those sorts of names.

*With the caveat that you could make me vicariously happy by using Orlando - the boys' name I never got (as dh vetoed and dc3 was a girl anyway) but love and I think would go really well with Olive.

Oliver

Olive and Quentin

Olive and Rufus

Or how about Inigo? It's like Indigo which was your girl choice. Or ignore you wanted a colour, maybe Blue?