Bay boy

[Daisy880]

Hi
Can you help? Struggling with names. I want to get that feeling that it’s right as being on my own, so indecisive and anxious at the moment it’s hard to know and decipher my feelings. I also find the next day I don’t have the same feelings about the name too so I’m back at square one and it’s been like this for months now I’m not moving on. I don’t have any strong male role models to use either to give heart behind the name choice.

Harry
Benjamin
William
Louie

Any comments welcome as I’m hoping this might trigger some unconscious feeling ir preference to a name

Thank you in advance x

I'm just relieved your chosen name isn't Bay Boy which was what I thought when I first opened the thread 😂

Does anyone have any experience with baby name regret so much so that they changed their child’s name also ?

🤦🏼‍♀️ How do I change that?

Report your thread and request change I think @Daisy880

If it helps at all, seven boy names have stayed in the top 100 most popular names in the UK for the last 120 years - Alexander, Charles, Edward, George, James, Thomas and William.

So if you chose one of these they are unlikely to date and should suit all ages. Because these names have also been in popular use for so long, most of them also have several nn choices - Alexander and Edward have at least half a dozen each!

I'd personally avoid George and Charles (Charlie) at the moment as they are really popular - as is Harry of your choices. Benjamin and Louis from your list are absolutely fine, just not particular fave's of mine. I really love classic William though - so many interesting namesakes in different fields (Shakespeare, Wilberforce, the Conqueror etc)

Atticus
Benedict
Colin
Daniel

Really lovely list of names
You can't go wrong

How about Peter or Laurence

I think William is a lovely name, although bay boy would be good for a foal 😄

Benjamin is lovely. The others are all a bit too related to the Royal family so may be more popular.

Harry
Benjamin
William
Louie

Benjamin and William are lovely, strong, established names.

I like Louie but I think you might have trouble with the spelling. A lot of people would expect Louis.

Harry to me is straddling the line between name and nickname. Most Harrys I know are really called Henry - but I appreciate that this is different in different areas.

People will spell Louie as Louis and it might get annoying for him.

I like the other 3 but wouldn't go for Harry unless it is your favourite. I know a few young Harrisons at the moment.

Benjamin is my favourite as it can be shortened to Benjy or Ben.

They are nice classic names that won't date or be seen as following a trend. They are all popular names and have been for a while but there is nothing wrong with that

My favourite of you list is William
I also love Louis but spelt with an S as that's the more common spelling so less room for mix up

Thank you this is helping it’s so hard on your own

Agree on the miss spelling of Louie and then other comments I’m hoping I will get inspiration and I will just know rather than dithering

Those are all nice names op.

Ive followed this board for years, and name regret threads appear fairly regularly. I’ve noticed they are often about names that are very ‘of the moment’ but not classics, so the name has been chosen because the poster thinks it’s fairly unusual but hasn’t realised it’s actually massively popular (e.g. Isla, Arlo type names) and it’s a shock to find there are three others in every baby group.

Or sometimes the poster has changed their mind because a family member has expressed distaste, and it’s put them off.

Conversely, I’ve seen ones where a family member has persuaded them out of a name they loved, so they’ve gone with something else, and then regretted it.

I think if you pick a classic like the ones on your list, even if they are fairly popular you know this from the start and aren’t choosing something to be deliberately different only to be disappointed it’s bang on trend. The only one that veers even close to this territory is Louie, I think.

They are all solid lovely names OP, I can’t see you having cause to regret any of them.

Harry, William and Louis are all very of the moment, whereas Benjamin is less popular right now - so all things being equal I’d go for Benjamin, nn Ben.

If you do go for Louis, I would spell it like that so it is distinctly a boys name with the traditional spelling (Louie can be a pet form of Louise etc.)

Maybe keep a list of names on your fridge so you can let them settle?

Harry - know too many
Benjamin - best one
William - ok
Louie - not ok, but Louis is fine

How about Peter as a pp suggested, or Philip?

I keep seeing Louise with the spelling

I think Benjamin and Louie are really cute names,
i also think Ilya( i-l-ee-a) is a really adorable name

Do you think the name Luke would be a problem if his dad wasn’t around with people saying Luke I am your father? From star wars? Or is my mind on overdrive ?

I don't think anyone would do that?

They're all really lovely. Which one sounds better with your surname and which nicknames? I think practise saying each one many times and see how you go from there.

Write them all on a piece of paper, scrunch them up and put in a bag. Pick out one. That's his name. How do you feel?

Alternatively, which one did you love first? First is often best.

@Daisy880

Do you think the name Luke would be a problem if his dad wasn’t around with people saying Luke I am your father? From star wars? Or is my mind on overdrive ?

Definitely mind overdrive!

I like all of those names but Benjamin is my favourite.

I also like Lucas, Isaac, Elijah and Blake.

Luke is fine, you're overthinking it with the Skywalker/Vader thing - Luke is a top 100 name, common enough that people won't really associate it with Star Wars.