Don’t like ANY boys names!

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I have searched for what feels like forever. I have not found even one name that I can imagine for my son and it’s really starting to get me down. The only name I remotely like is Arthur but it doesn’t feel like the one and I’m pretty sure the Royals are going to use it. I like traditional names that aren’t too popular (another issue with Arthur) any ideas ladies :(

I love all your girl list and it's similar to our list. Our boy list was Ewan, Milo, Laurie, Nathaniel, Hugo, Rowan and Felix. We went with Ewan and we love it. Good luck .

Archer
Edmund
Jasper
Corin
Caspar
Otto
Ivor
Rufus
Alban
Joel
Seth
Noam
Otis
Piran
Ross
Joss
August
Laurie
Alistair
Hugo
Francis
Peter

Frederick/Freddy
Hubert/Bertie
Hugh
Lawrence
Gregor/Gregory
Patrick
Alexander/Alastair
Lucas
Miles
Benjamin/Benedict
Barnaby/Barney

Guy
Mark
Paul
Matthew

OP, love Nora if we were having a girl - we'd deffo go for it!!!

Same position as you! These are the names I want but not allowed so I will give them to you!!

Robert (nn. Bobby/Rob/Robbie/Bob) great name as baby Bobby right though so Grandad Bob.

Rupert. (nn. Rue) I liked the name Ruben but prefer more traditional names.

I don't think they would call their DS Arthur. I guessed right for both George and Charlotte weirdly (wish Id put bets on!) but don't think Arthur is the same feel/fit.
Even if they did- its no reason at all not to sue it- its hardly as if you hang around in royal circles is it?! (I'm assuming).

If you like Ezra, what about Elias or Eli?

I know how you feel, we really struggled with a boys name, we had a list and chose one when he was born. He ended up being Rory

Alfred
Wilfred
Ernest
Arnold
Frederick
Jonathan
Herbert (Bertie)
Edmund
Theodore
Samuel
Bede
Elias
Ezra
Ezekiel
Zachariah
Izaak
Jonah
Joshuah

Edgar

I love your girls list! Our boys list was:

Oscar
Lawrence
Felix
Douglas
Kester

Also I really love Arthur! I thought they would call George Arthur but I don't know if they will now.

Also like Leonard & could be Leo or Lennie for short.

Don't know if it's traditional, but we had the same problem, and then found the name Bastian. Absolutely love the name, and rarely meet others with the same name.

Johnny 😀

You clearly like vintage names (as do I ) so here's my boy list (had 2 DDs in the end):

Stanley, Winston, Francis (Frank), Clyde, Albert, Claude, Wilfred, Alfred, Roger, Hugo, Gregory, Oscar, Otis

Alfred
Albert
Arnold
Archibald
Byron
Boris
Crispin
David
Donald
Douglas
Edmund
Flynn
Finton
Gregory
Harris
Harold (I think this fits your preference perfectly similar feel to Arthur but a little more "yours")
Justin
Leonard
Lawrence
Montgomery
Montague
Miles
Nicholas
Otto
Patrick
Quintan
Roscoe
Stuart
Timothy
Wilfred

Ezra is trendy and is likely to be very popular for a year or two before being seen as 'downmarket'.
If you like Simon and John, I would look at names popular in the 1940s and 50s.
Michael, Patrick, Alan/Allen, Stephen etc are all much nicer than the cutesy/rascal sort of names that are currently popular.

If dds had been boys they were going to be

Bartholomew - to be known as Tolley, apparently old English name and derivative.

We also liked Ptolomy...

You have nearly exactly the same names on my girls list! Weird. And I too can’t think of any boys names I like other than Arthur, Edward, James and Harry (too common) and Edward is my brothers name and my dh vetoed it (I don’t actually know what I’m having yet though). Good luck with your search.

Top 25 of 1904 and their current ranking:

1. William (Currently #10)
2. John (Currently #120)
3. George (Currently #3)
4. Thomas (Currently #9)
5. Arthur (Currently #30)
6. James (Currently #12)
7. Charles (Currently #72)
8. Frederick (Currently #76)
9. Albert (Currently #64)

10. Ernest (Currently #320) 11. Alfred (Currently #111) 12. Edward (Currently #23) 13. Joseph (Currently #22) 14. Harold (Currently #1,123) 15. Robert (Currently #109) 16. Frank (Currently #175) 17. Henry (Currently #15) 18. Harry (Currently #2) 19. Walter (Currently #341) 20. Reginald (Currently #296) 21. Herbert (Currently #672) 22. Leonard (Currently #249) 23. Stanley (Currently #65) 24. Leslie (Currently #4,023) 25. Richard (Currently #278).

I like lots of boys' names and no girls' names. I like

William
Eben
Osian
Louis
Thomas
Jeffrey

Waxon that's a great post. Can we find out the girls?

We liked sons of tour girls names.
Out boys shortlist was
Gabriel
Angus
Frederick
William

I was convinced he was a girl, so didn't worry too much. He wasn't a girl! By the time he was born we only liked Angus. It means "one choice".

Also on long list but too "whack" for us - Oberon, Heathcliff.

*some of your girls names

Here you go blinkin

The most popular girls’ names in 1904:

1. Mary (Currently #250)
2. Florence (Currently #19)
3. Doris (Currently #2,547)
4. Edith (Currently #96)
5. Dorothy (Currently #274)
6. Annie (Currently #108)
7. Margaret (Currently #423)
8. Alice (Currently #17)
9. Elizabeth (Currently #85)

10. Elsie (Currently #31) 11. Gladys (Currently #4,763) 12. Winifred (Currently #790) 13. Ethel (Currently #1,834) 14. Hilda (Currently #3,609) 15. Lilian (Currently #630) 16. Ivy (Currently #33) 17. Violet (Currently #85) 18. Kathleen (Currently #938) 19. Ellen (Currently #475) 20. Lily (Currently #7) 21. Sarah (Currently #96) 22. Nellie (Currently #310) 23. Emily (Currently #3) 24. Mabel (Currently #210) 25. Ada (Currently #164).

Brilliant! Thank you.