Blue for a boy?

[Philipippa]

Hello,

I’m due a baby boy in the spring, my first child.

Dad isn’t on the scene so the name is all up to me, which would be great if I wasn’t so indecisive!

One I really really love but I’m not sure if it’s too out there is Blue... what do you think? Surname is something simple and very common, think Bones with a J. Does it work or does it clash too much?

Other names I like: River, Jude, Otis, Luca, Sky (is this seen as a girls name?), Bay, Flynn, Asher...

Any input would be great, I feel like I’m going round in circles with no one to bounce name ideas off. Thank you!

There's nursery rhymes about Tom's, Jack's and Polly's too. But you wouldn't make any comments about those.

Were they on the OP’s list?

The woman in the bay next to me on the maternity ward called her son Winter Blue. I thought it sounded like a shade of paint.

It's a colour not a name.
Don't let your desire for individuality cloud your judgement

I know some Rivers and Indys but they're girls

I quite like Blue, but my neighbour’s cat has that name! If you are going for an unusual name then don’t go for Luca - we have four baby Luca’s on our Baptism Lausanne at the moment, who will all eventually be in the same year group at school.

What’s a Lausanne???? LIST!

The blue joneses sound like something you have when you have a hangover. Plus the whole BJ thing.

I like River best from your list.

BJ initials. Plus sounds like blew jones, like gave jones a blow job.. not great!

River, Jude, Otis, Luca, Bay, Flynn, Asher are all nice names, and much better than Blue x

Little Blue was an elephant when I was a kid.

Awful. Just no. Bay is also dreadful. Sky is a girls name. Not keen on River either, sorry. Flynn, Otis, Luca and Jude are all nice.

I think blue would be great as a middle name. Think Ramsay Blue or Elijah Blue etc x

River is a great choice @Philipippa

Don’t let people tell you it’s just a girls name as that’s rubbish. Why do people say these things without looking at the statistics first! It only takes a minute. The most recent official government stats we have for England and Wales in 2018 clearly show that more boys were called River than girls. It’s unisex. Plus River Phoenix has beeen in the papers a bit recently so I can see more boys using jt

Flynn is really cool too.

Really no with that surname. BJ is bad enough but Blue Jones also just sounds too much like blue jeans. It's like a joke name, regardless of whether you like Blue or not!

Blue on its own - not my taste at all, but I would say it sounds feminine.

You have some other great, unusual, interesting strong names on the list - use those - this screams pregnancy hormones and you will regret it!

River is good, but not so keen with Jones somehow.

Otis Jones is fab

Jude Jones cool.

Other crazy/cool ones which I think would actually work with Jones:

Iggy Jones
Asa Jones
Wolf Jones

Thank you, I like Asa and Wolf. I think Blue is off the list I don’t want any BJ comments.

I like Winter too, but my good friend has a little girl called Wynter so I can’t use it sadly.

I know a Skye Blue (girl) with db River George..
And a dsis Star Rain

I like Flynn and River best of your names, Asher and Quinn are nice too though Quinn is a bit too like quim for me.

I'd say Winter is definitely a girls' name

You could also go super long with Jones, and have a cool nn.

e.g. Zephaniah Jones nn Zefi, Ezekiel Jones nn Zeke. That kind of thing.

I think Jude is the nicest on your list.

Blue is just ridiculous

Jeremiah Jones. I'd definitely want to hang out with him.

Not Blue. Or River or Bay.

Flynn, Jude, Otis or Luca are much better.

I like all of your other options, but not Blue.

I love the names River, Flynn and actually quite like Bay. Asher is nice too.

I did a day of supply teaching once and there was a '[name beginning with b] blue' in the class - a 2 part first name. He looked so embarrassed when I was taking the register and had to get him to confirm whether it was just 'name beginning with b' or the name and blue as his first name (I obviously didn't want to spend the day getting his name wrong). He said it was 'name blue' during registration, then spoke with me a bit later one to one and basically begged me to just call him the first part of his name for the rest of the day. He was mortified that blue was part of his name poor kid. Just giving your child the name 'blue' doesn't offer your child any alternative like this child has. I'd never do it.

Jude and Luca are my personal favourites from your list.