Struggling with boys names

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My OH and I are really struggling with boys names! We have quite different tastes, I like more unusual names and OH likes more mainstream (I like Rafferty he likes Oliver) looking for some kind of compromise. We went on Named Together and had no matches at all! Any suggestions that we may not have thought of? Thanks oh wise MN

Hendrick
Rollo
Rowan
Cillian
Leonard (Leo or Lenny)
Amos
Jasper
Thaddeus

Sorry pressed post too soon! I like Rafferty a lot and Raphael. Not so keen on Oliver.

Arlo, Ludo, Iago, Alec, Milo, Ralph, Magnus, Thorfinn, Ludovic, Augustin, Dashiell, Rufus, Oren, Ranulph, Benedict, Crispin, Linus, Lionel, Rigby, Ivo, Mungo, Keir, Otis, Ivan, Phineas, Rex, Rowan, Rohan, Own, Roman, Raphael, Hector, Arthur, Alexander, Asher, Felix, Harry, Winston, Julian, Hugo, Otto, Nathaniel, Gabriel, Isaac, Jasper, Jacob, Henry, William, Alfred, Frederick, Leo, Leon, Oscar, Sebastian, Theodore, Tobias, Simeon, Callum, Levi, Elijah, Thomas, Matthias, Matthew, Dominic, Jude, Jonas, Jonathan, Peter.

Albert- Albie or Bertie
Alexander- xander
Arthur- Artie
Barnaby- Barney
Jackson- Jack/s
Theodore-Theo or Teddy
Harrison- Harry
Michael- Micah

Just ideas...

Ambrose
Miles
Kieran
Rory
Toby
Anthony
Peter

Casper. Conrad. Asa. Derry. Maddox.

Oliver is awful. So so so boring.

Other names:
Ralph
Jonah
Milo
Theodore/Theo
Drew

Thank you ladies, some good suggestions that I can show him later-he did at one stage say he could ‘get on board’ with Arthur so that could be a possibility. Plenty of names suggested I loved (Otis and Jasper for example) but were met with ‘no way.’ So I just don’t know what on Earth we will end up agreeing on🙈 Girls names just seem so much easier!

You'll probably find he's already named himself. He'll more than likely come out with a name written all over his face. You'd be surprised how often babies do that.

Glenn, Ludovic, Leo, Leon, Dexter, Dean, Rory

Ralph
Reid
Adam
Julius
Spencer
Logan
Victor
Ernest
Vincent
Bruce

Love Otis and Rafferty! Or how about
Quentin
Magnus
Austin
Reuben

We struggled a bit with boys names. Went with Jasper in the end. Could you go with something more traditional but then have a funky little nn for them? Can't really think of anything good off the top of my head tho!

buckyou that would be the ideal! Struggling to think of anything that fits the criteria though

Edwin/Edward/Edmund nn Ed?

Name him after the granddads . Too much choice these days !

Oliver is fine but I don't like Olly.
Rafferty, Raphael and many of the others on here are, ahem, not exactly classic.
I thoroughly dislike Albie, Alfie, Bertie, Archie, Rollo, Otis, etc. They sound like names you'd give a puppy.
I like Magnus, Miles, Barnaby, Rory, Adam, Bruce, Toby, Anthony and Peter because they are names of people I know, and are not ones that will sound terribly dated in 20 yrs time.

Sounds like me and my DH. He loved Alistair and I loved Freddie. We now have Campbell! Although that was only agreed by tossing a coin outside the registry office! If it was tails he'd have been Charlie

Ps we knew what we'd have for a girl even before i fell pregnant!

Max
Oscar/ Ozzie
Isaac /Zac
Mateus / Matty
Rory
Rudy

Alexander/Xander
Marcus/Mac
Benedict/Ned
George/Jud
Joseph/Joss
Ezekiel/Zeke
Conrad/Rad
Kristian/Kit

Alexander / Xander
Nathaniel/ Nathan/Nate
Christopher / Kit
Harrison
Marcus
Conrad
Freddie
Theo

Owen

Can you find a slightly more unusual mainstream name? (If that makes sense?).

Nathaniel
Josiah
Cameron
Andrew
Samuel
Lucas
Brett

You could always give him a traditional name and then a fun nickname. Some examples:

Albert - Albie/Bertie
Benjamin - Benji
Alexander - Xander/Xan
David - Davi
Joseph - Joey/Seth
Oscar - Ozzy
Wilfred - Wilf/Freddie/Will
Nathaniel - Nate/Nathan

Other name suggestions that you might like:
Raphael
Atticus
Hector
Casper
Crispin
Marcus
Magnus
Phineas
Rhys/Reese
Julian
Barnaby