I just threw a baby name book across the room - argh!

[Somerville]

Stupid baby name book, where the boy section is missing one syllable names.

Well... there are a few that are short for something (Matt, Nick), which I dislike on their own, and having a longer name on BC defeats the purpose.

And a few more that are just... not very dashing interesting.

Oh and others that don't fit our other essential criteria - which is not ending with the letter L and being able to work okay in both France and Ireland as well as UK.

Indulge me for a moment that the issue is my baby name book and not our (unfortunately, wholly necessary) criteria, alright?! Any ideas?

Have you tried the Mumsnet Baby Name Finder?
It's quite, er... interesting.

Kit?
Finn?

Luke

I saw that thread this evening, after HQ had apparently tidied the baby name finder up, and felt most miffed at missing the hilarity. Maybe I should try it anyway. It can't do a worse job than Im doing right now.

Hugh

You've probably ruled out the ones that pop into my mind, but they are:

Flynn
Glen
Shay
Jude

Though I don't really know if they work across the French/Irish/English criteria.

Not one syllable but I'll throw Cohen in to the mix just because I love it

Drake
Rafe
Hugh
Ray
Rex
Max

Rafe?

Guy

Craig
Craig
Cole
Luke
Nate
Mark
Rafe
Sean
Todd
Thad
George
Lance
Scott

Joss
Yann

John

The l thing makes it harder!
Bryce
Dash
Grant
Guy
Lyle
Troy
Trey
Sean
Liam

I love Kit but not on its own. And Christopher is so long.
I can't get excited about Luke because of luke-warm.
Finn doesn't really work for the French side of the family according to DH (fin means end in French).

Lane
Bryn

Jack

If you love Kit why would you need to go long with Christopher?

Flynn rather than Finn?

Hi Somer!
Why can't the name end in L?
And why one syllable - if I remember rightly you want to keep it short because of a long surname?
How about Leo - admittedly two syllables but still very short (quick to write!) and L at the beginning not the end (if that's acceptable?)
I would have used it if I could have.
There's also Noah (again, two syllables ) which is the perfect French/English name because it sounds the virtually identical in both accents, which is very rare.

Oooh, Flynn.

I just texted that suggestion to DH.

His favourite idea so far is Hugh. Which I dislike -
because Huge Grant.

Mine has been Miles which he says wrong as two syllables. So then became Seth - which DH has ruled out because that's one of the forms of the Egyptian god of violence.

Neither of us like surnames as first names or very modern sounding names. Irish names don't work very well in France.

Frank?

Ha ha! Just realised that totally won't work in France!

Chuck. Sorry I'll leave the thread now.

Guy ? Works well in France.
Tom
Zak

Congrats

1 syllable names:

Max
Finn
Luke
John
James

Short 2 syllable names:

Leo(n)
Liam
Noah
Adam
Theo
Evan/Ewan
Sid(ney)