Boys names - Fionn, Rowen, Jack?

[Leahd89]

I'm having a boy, due in September and we can't agree on names. Our first DS is called Oisín, an Irish name ranked at about number 15 where I'm from but probably not popular elsewhere.

All other names I just feel a bit meh about, before I became pregnant we agreed on Rowen if we had another boy, which happened to be the name of DHs close friend (I know it's usually spelt Rowan) not I'm not too sure.

MIL likes Fionn/Finn and doesn't like Rowen, DH likes Finn, Rowen and Jack in no particular order. BIL is called Jack so I'm not keen

I think adding up all the Fionn, Finns, Finlays, Fintans etc it's actually the most popular name there is

Any other suggestions?!

Jack and Finn are nice
Rowen is going to get continually muddled with Rowan, Rohan, Roan or Roman. I work with kids and am a bit fed up of all those variations, makes my head hurt. I also think Rowen is a bit feminine (I know it’s already regarded as predominantly a girls’ name in Scotland and in US so think the same will happen here soon).

Will have a think about some suggestions.

How about Marley? Otis? Tristan? Chester? Kit? Eric? Eli? Jasper? Casper?

Oisín is lovely

How do you pronounce Fion? Is it Finn or fee-on? Because I would assume a girls name if the latter. Likewise Rowen. Rowan I know is unisex and know a couple of each but the e spelling makes it seem feminine to me.

Seconding Tristan and Kit. Or how about Ivan, Cassian, Idris

I also would think of Ffion as a girls name. al

Fionn is an Irish boys' name.

It's hard to write down how it's pronounced but it's sort of fy-unn, like the word fun with a yuh sound after the f.

It's quite different to Finn, which is the anglicisation of Fionn.

It's totally different to Ffion, which is a Welsh girls' name.

I don't think MIL gets a say.

I like Rowen best of your three options.

How about
Rua
Rían
Tadgh
Tomàs
Cathal
Cillian

Sorry forgot to add that I love the name Fionn!

I’ve not seen Rowen spelled that way before. I’m not keen tbh.
Fionn would be my favourite of those names, and would go well with Oisín (lovely name btw).

Fionn is my favourite for you, and I also like Jack.

Fionn
Jack
Rowen (prefer Rowan)

Oisín is gorgeous OP. Osian, which is the Welsh version, is on my list. I would aim for another Irish name to go with Oisín and I really like Fionn.

How about Tadhg, Cillian, Ronan, Eoin?

I prefer Jack to Rowen in it's own right, but Oisín and Jack feel quite different in style. I don't think children's names need to be matchy matchy, but I think it's nice to have both children's names reflect their Irish heritage.

Fionn and jack are good choices
Sorry don’t like Rowen, too feminine and too ripe for confusion with Roman which is the top fastest rising boy name. Also very similar to Rohan, Rowan, Roan. I’d just avoid any of those trendy set of names these days. A couple of years ago would have been fine as all fairly rare but all getting v popular and run of the mill. I say this as someone who has a v popular 80s name which was v similar to another 80s name (think Laura and Lauren) and the continual mix up drives me mad.
How about Patrick, Liam, Connor, Aidan
Love Tristan or Kit

My MIL mentioned Rowen getting muddled up with other names, I must ask our friend if he found this growing up as it's something I never thought of.

Where I'm from everyone pronounces Fionn as Finn, but I think in the south of Ireland it's 'Fy-on'. It's the same with Oisín, here it's pronounced Aw-sheen whereas in the south is O-sheen which we actually prefer but no one here would pronounce it that way.
I've never heard of Ffion, here Fionn would definitely be manly. But does Finn come across as trendy? It makes me think of Bodhi or something

I live Tristan but it's a definite no from DH

How about Evan? Cian? Micah? Eli? Seth? Caleb? Jasper? Christopher? Ray?
My baby daughter is called Rowan so I think of it as a girls name and it is predominantly a girl name in Scotland so I can see that transition happening in England too.I know a few celebs in the US have given the name to their daughters. I still like the name but I hadn’t appreciated how popular Roman is becoming and my daughter is often now referred to as “Rowan with a W” as there are 2 Roman’s at our small local nursery- not quite what I had in mind when I picked the name! I knew it wasn’t super rare but I thought it would be a bit different... wrong! I’ll come to MN for advice for the next name choice!! I also don’t like the nickname “Row”. I’ve asked family not to use it but they keeping doing so by accident. Feels like an inevitability once she’s at school.

I love Dylan too which I think is welsh but surname begins with D so a bit over the top together

Oisín is my top name for next (currently imaginary) child!

I LOVE Fionn/Finn (could never use Finn myself as it’s too similar to my surname)

From the names other people have suggested I also love Cillian

If your friend is an adult @Leahd89 then I highly doubt he had that problem with mixing up names growing up; all that tranche of similar names have been pretty rare right up until the past 2(ish) years. Roman for example has climbed about 700 places in the name charts and on course to be top 10. Whereas growing up in the 80s and 90s, I didn’t know anyone called Roman, Rohan etc. They’re all very trendy now though. I think if my daughter had been called Rowan ten years ago it just wouldn’t have been a problem, there’s no way there would have been two Roman’s at her nursery ten years ago.

Oh and Dylan is lovely!

Dylan is a great name and i actually love using names that start with the same letter as the surname, really makes the name fit together well.
I definitely do not put Finn in the same bracket as Bodhi but will give this some thought as to why

Yes I see what you mean, Roman is definitely a name not about years ago, possibly he would have had it mixed up with Ronan as it's relatively common where I am, but now there's a lot more which are similar

Our surname is Duffin if that's any help, I mentioned to my MIL Finn is very similar to our surname but she thought it worked.

Dylan Duffin? I'm not sure

I think Dara too but again the whole DD thing and it's taken by a relative

I love Irish names , my Dads side are all from south Ireland , we initially were going to have an Irish name for our baby girl due August but my husband was convinced people wouldn’t ever be able to pronounce or spell them as we live in the East Midlands and they’re not very common here!
I love Fionn , I have a welsh cousin called Ffion as that’s the female welsh name but Fionn is lovely for a boy ! I also like Cian, does your husband like that ? Or Rian?
Congrats by the way ! X

Oh yes you can’t have Finn Duffin! Dylan Duffin can just about work I think