What will you call your son?

[Emmastone123]

If you're expecting a boy, what are you calling him? Or have you got a shortlist?

I have a Samuel and a Frederick.

Others I like and would've considered:

• Benjamin
• Desmond
• Edward / Edmund
• Flynn
• Harland
• James
• Marlon
• Oscar
• Reuben
• Raymond
• Roman
• Sidney
• Stanley
• Wyatt

I have a son who is a few weeks old. Our shortlist was

Reuben
Raphael
Louis
Benjamin

...and we called him one of those

If it was completely up to me, I’d pick:

Gabriel
Hamish
Josiah
Elijah

But, since dh, (much to my annoyance), has to go and have an opinion of his own , it’s looking like either Vincent or Marcus, which are our mutual compromise names.

We had Finn and William on our short list (baby is a girl though!)

I'm really struggling with our baby boys name. We're similar to others on the thread either family or friends have already used the name or they just don't feel right for us. I was hoping reading through this would've given me some inspiration. Our favourite or at least the only one we seem to be able to agree on is Maximus but our surname begins with an m so I'm not sure I like the sound of the two ms together. I think it'll be one of those things where we wait until he's born and see what he looks like and what he suits.

Our shortlist is:
Lewis
Anthony
Zachary
Marcus
Rowan
Nathan
Dominic
Leon

Also like Amos and Cornelius but they've been vetoed!

Think we will have either Benjamin or Daniel.

Victor
Hector
Wilfred
Frederick
Otto
Otis
Alistair
Fergus

This would be if DH had no choice at all on names. If he did then probably Frederick would win (Fred as a NN)

We have settled on Noah (still have a couple of months to change our minds though!)

Other names I liked was
Jacob
Isaac
Aston

We both love Theodore (will be Theodore Stephen Martin to honour both his grandads) but our shortlist was:
Oliver
Milo
Stanley
Theodore

We have Alexander and Joseph x

Gabriel, Arthur or Jude

Myson

In order of my preference

Harry
Sam
Freddie
Oliver

I have a little one called Oscar

My shortlist was
Hugh/Hugo
Oliver
Oscar

Quentin
Raphael
Marcus

I love:
Thomas
Joseph
Gabriel
Raphael
Nicholas
Alexander
Hamish

We are going with Rex, second choice was Barnaby/Barney

My son was born in November. We really struggled with names, despite knowing we were expecting a boy. Some we liked were:

Jude
Harry
Greer
Jack
Louis
Shaye

When he finally arrived, we went with a name we hadn't even considered as it just suits him so much. Actually, now that I think about it, the exact same happened when we named our daughter.

Marcus
Connor

Which love right now

Leo.

My lil boy due in 6wks husband picked 2 names and allowed my daughter 2. So this lil tyke is gonna b Evan Carter Osian Stark. Hubby loves welsh traditional names and my daughter is a marvel and GOT nerd :)

interesting to see Raphael on so many lists. Biblical names appearing strong, still lots of Reubens and Noahs.

Dc 1 would have been James, but she was a girl
DC2 - same
By the time DS had come along, my bloody sister had used James for her DC3!
So, I wanted Simon and DH wanted Max. Thus, DS is called Joseph.

Don't know what we are having but our boy's name is Benjamin. Also on the shortlist were Robert and Henry.

Theodore James Llewelyn

We don't know if we're having a boy yet but have always had his name picked out.

Girls names are another matter entirely.