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Boys Name Struggle

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shoesarefab · 17/08/2018 19:35

So I have two girls (Delilah and Bathsheba), but I’m due a boy beginning of September. I am seriously struggling to find something that I love. Ideally it would be Old Testament, 3 syllables, outside of the top 100 and have a good story behind it. I think the problem is I had a third girls name that I would have used and I really love the stories abs meaning behind my daughters names. I just don’t have that with a boy. My current list follows and there is a “a problem” with all of them.

Aurelius (DH hates)
Balthazar (too close to daughters name)
Ezekiel (logical next step from Zachary which is gaining popularity fast)
Gabriel (DH hates, top 100)
Isaac (top 100)
Hector (my cousin has a Hector)
Solomon (conjures up images of ultra Orthodox Jews or Sol Campbell the footballer).

Please help, I’m starting to panic massively now!!!!!

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moredoll · 18/08/2018 00:06

Elijah.
Malachi

Sophronia · 18/08/2018 04:41

Adlai
Adonijah
Boaz
Canaan
Eliezer
Ephraim
Tekoa
Elisha
Issachar
Jachin
Ishmael
Jephthah
Jabez
Jubal
Mordecai
Naphtali
Zebulon

shoesarefab · 18/08/2018 09:36

I did have Lysander in the list, DH doesn’t like it.

I also suggested Malachi and Mordeci, again I was vetoed!

We always just assumed it would be another girl and she would be Arethusa so him being a boy has really thrown me! 😂

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Hippopotas · 18/08/2018 10:36

Jedidiah
Abraham
Abimilech
Absalom
Eleazar
Emmanuel
Hezekiah
Zedekiah
Philemon
Nehemiah
Mordecai

Personally I like Hezekiah and Nehemiah from my list and Ezekial from your list.

PassportBridgetPants · 18/08/2018 13:03

Achilles
Benedict
Cassius
Claudius
Ferdinand
Lucius
Lucian
Marcellus
Octavius
Orlando
Prospero
Silvius
Ulysses?

Mamabear4180 · 18/08/2018 13:06

Ezekiel is a really great name. It's the only one I like from your list.

Ezra is lovely but short compared to your girls if it bothers you and getting very popular.

SmiledWithTheRisingSun · 18/08/2018 13:08
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shoesarefab · 19/08/2018 12:23

Thank you 😊 @NameChangedNow

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PinkAvocado · 19/08/2018 12:26

I like Josiah and Raphael

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