Unusual baby boy names

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Hector or Otto? Suggestions welcome! :)

I love Hector. It’s one of my favourite boys names. Otto is fine, but not a favourite. Neither of them are unusual though (or at least not by my definition but I know it’s personal). Both are ranked around 250 in popularity and rising quickly, so if popularity is a concern it might be something to think about.

The Dark Greener website is great at visualising how popular names are and if they are rising or falling in popularity.

Thank you so much :)

I’ve got a cat called Otto, so I like it but struggle now to think of it as a name for a child.
I probably prefer Hector for a child BUT I do also think of the verb eg to hector which puts me off.

So, I don’t dislike either of them, probably wouldn’t think twice about them if I was introduced to a child with the name, but I wouldn’t choose either of them for a child.

Otto all the way. Such a beautiful name

Yes I know a few dogs called Otto! I love the name but the animals are stealing it's thunder!

What do you think of Cosmo?

@springiscoming12 🥰🥰🥰

What about:

Wilbur
Wilfred
Angus
Digby
Lorcan
Griffin
Ptolemy
Bart
Fabian
Myles
Edwin
Walter
Nico
Stefan

Omg love that website - thanks for the link @toastofthetown one of my boys names isn’t even recognised in there 😂😂 mustn’t be popular so haha

Otto I like.

Definitely not Hector. Cosmo is inbetween the two, not my taste but I don’t have any very strong feelings against it either.

A few suggestions;

Torin
Casper
Levi
Eli
Jasper

Great list @Ikeameatballs thank you!

Rocco
Axel
Laurence
Quentin
Cillian

Otto is gorgeous

Cedric
Cuthbert
Orlando
Seth
Amos
Francis
Jonah
Jabez
Abraham nn Abe
Gideon
Gilbert

Horatio?

Cassius

Otto by a long mile

Really like Hector. Really don’t like Otto (somehow slightly Nazi??)

Diggory
Isambard
Cassian
Julius
Lucian
Kester
Josiah
Blaise
Elisha
Stellan
Struan
Silas
Linus
Atticus
Lysander
Lorne
Augustus

How has nobody said Balonz yet?

Hector isn't especially my taste but I like it's classical origins and it seems perfectly usable. Otto, I struggle to take seriously - it has a comedic German stereotype image to me.

Uncommon names I like:
Corin
Evander
Emrys
Caspian
Bram
Leif
Asa
Zev
Orion
Gaius
Maxim
Elias
Rufus
Hugh
Leal
Heath
Laith
Apollo
Altair

Zeb/Zebedee

I quite like Otto; Hector not so much.

Otis
Ewan
Linus
Bertram
Amos
Micah
Quinn
Ellis
Owen
Heath
Drake

Here is the Scottish version of the name website, but I think it is a bit better as it shows names where only one child has been called that in a year (those names are excluded from the E&W data). Obviously it is a smaller pool but as it is goes back decades it includes hundreds of thousands of registrations.

scotland.shinyapps.io/nrs-baby-names/

Also keep an eye on the Telegraph and Times birth announcements for unusual suggestions.

Hector has an unfortunate meaning (to hector) and t to be nickname Heck isn't great?!

Otto is a comical German name imo. I'm not keen at all.

How about
Miles
Quentin
Rufus

My little one has one of the suggested names.

Most of my shortlist is here too.

I wonder if my taste is suddenly going to become popular

OP, do you follow Chloe and beans on Instagram? She has an Otto and Cosmo! I always loved the name Otto after following her