No boys names I love

[FirstPost99]

Found out we are having a lovely boy! But I don't love any boys names.. names we like but either not 100% on or can't use for various reasons are

Harry
Max
Jack
Ellis
Leo

We have another boy with a top 10 name already, which I didn't know was so popular when we had him but we seem to like popular names anyway when I'd rather not!

Middle name is possibly Stephen, so trying to avoid names ending in N as I don't think they sound quite right together.

Can anyone suggest anything similar please?

Jude
William
Tom
Albert
Walter

You don't have to 'love' a name. You'll love the child and then you'll love the name because it's theirs.

Freddie
Billy
Tommy
Stanley
Albie

Tobias
Milo
Louis
Seth
Amos
Noah
Noel

P.S I really love your list of names, don't think you could go wrong with any of them

Alex
Arlo
Sam
Thomas
Joel
Keir
Luca

Hugh or Hugo
Leon
Louis or Lewis
Magnus
Charlie
Peter
Thomas or Tommy
Felix
Joshua
Toby
Elliot

Thanks, some nice suggestions to think about I know we don't have to love it, but I'd like to have a stronger feeling then "it's alright" and I feel like I'm looking at the same names over and over again.

Harry is probably my favourite but I've just started reading Harry Potter with DS and feel like I'll hate it by the end of the book

Actually Ellis is my favourite but DD has the initials EE and I was trying to avoid matching 2 DC and not the other one as stupid as that sounds out loud!

Jasper, casper, Austin, felix

Edward. My fave

Popular/well known but not top 10 names (and fairly short which seems to be your style?) that I don't think have been mentioned yet -
Jacob (Jake)
Adam
Zack (or Zachary/Isaac)
Lucas/Luke
Marcus/Mark
James (nn Jamie?)
Henry (nn Harry?)
Joseph (Joe)
Elias (nn Eli?)
Caleb

Henry Stephen?

Ellis is really lovely you should use that
Using a first name you love is more important than this initial scenario you mention

Don't worry about the middle name as it will seldom be used.

Something like Ryan Stephen Post will be Ryan Post most of the time.

Noah
Joseph
James
Ben
Oliver
Liam

Totally empathise OP

I’m pregnant with number 2. Pretty sure it’s another boy. We’ve already used the only boys name we both love.

My pregnancy’s are shit. I get super poorly and down so it’s important to me to ‘love’ a name.

I have a few really reasonable, traditional names that fit well with my DS’s name but DH just rejects them all and throws up ridiculous options that don’t match!

Imagine our current DS is called George.

Me:
Oliver
James
Henry
Thomas
William

DH:
Reginald
Graham
Ragnar
Archibald

I’m starting to resent DH over it.

Oh @Pumpertrumper I'm sorry, your DHs names did make me chuckle! Graham?!

I remember when naming DD I kept suggesting names that DH hated then days later he would suggest the same names and say he liked them! Had no memory of me suggesting them first. Naming babies would be much easier to do alone

Thank you for all your suggestions, will run a few by DH.

@FirstPost99

Actually Ellis is my favourite but DD has the initials EE and I was trying to avoid matching 2 DC and not the other one as stupid as that sounds out loud!

If this is your concern (and I don't think it does sound silly) could you use the same initial as your ds's name for the MN? So that they both feel they have "the same"? (I have the same initials as one of my siblings. The other was very put out all the way through our childhood).

Torin Stephen
Ronny Stephen
Elias Stephen

Congratulations OP. We were the same with our first DS’ name, really struggled to find a name we both loved.

We brought a name book, started going through it and found a name we both loved. Perhaps give that a try. My DS is 19 now and his name really suits him and we still love it just as much.

Good luck

Danny
Otis
George
Zac
Theo
Jasper
Peter
Luca
Ray
Sam

Could you use Stephen as a first name?
Or
Isaac
Joel
Joshua
Saul
Nicholas
Robert
Edward
Oliver
Victor
Hugo

@FirstPost99

Tell me about it!

Just today he got defensive over graham again! ‘It’s a perfectly good name!’ And ‘it’s a family name!’ ... so is William btw but Ofc he’s not fussed about using that!

Think we might have come to an agreement on Charles! We both like that! Yay

@bridgetreilly

You don't have to 'love' a name. You'll love the child and then you'll love the name because it's theirs.

I totally agree