Struggling for boy names. Found one but the meaning is crap!

[Horehound]

We don't know yet if having a boy or girl but we settled on a lovely girls name super quickly. So I suggested Cameron for a boy and DH quite likes it.
I then researched the meaning and it means "bent, crooked" lol
So now I feel that's a bit shit considering our first DS is Arthur and means bear, courageous and also the connotations with King Arthur etc.
Name meanings mean something to me.
I'm so torn because it's the only name we've both been quite happy with but then find out it means crooked and bent...hmmm

If name meanings mean something to you then it's probably not the name for you. It personally wouldn't bother me, and my own name means bitter. It's never bothered me that it's not something more positive

Meaning don't bother me much, I never in a million years would have guessed that Arthur means bear. What about something like
Christian
Christopher
Caleb
Carson
Cody
Connor
Cole
Calvin
Cooper
Carter

Yeh I guess a fair amount of people would never know but like my dad was an English teacher and so for me and DH wedding my dad wrote a poem about our names and meanings. He wrote something for Arthur and I like reading onto name meanings and origins. It's just something that's always been a part of our family I suppose.
DH was a bit disappointed when I told him the meaning too although I suppose bent, crooked doesn't necessarily mean anything negative, does it? I could put a positive spin on it like nothing in life is straightforward!

Other suggestions:
Lorcan
Cillian
Damon
Conrad

Cameron is a lovely name and it's bendy meaning is connected to lucky (bendy) number 6 and also meandering (bendy) rivers. That's the "bent" part, it's a positive bendy! I'd use it for sure, great choice

I don't think it really matters what a name "means" when it's now just a perfectly conventional name.

Not keen on those @Happenchance but thank you for suggesting them.

@bloominglovelyorange oh I like the way you have described it! Positive bendy :)

Well @aSofaNearYou I have tried to explain why meanings are important and just because they don't mean anything to you, I've said they do to me! But I do like how blooming has turned it into a positive

I can understand why you would be upset. I don't think it matters to a lot of people. I like names so it would be obvious to my child that I would have looked their name's meaning up. It would make it harder to give them a name with a negative meaning as I couldn't then deny knowing.

Felix and Isaac have nice meanings. Felix means happy / lucky. Isaac means he who laughs. Orson and Bernard both mean bear.

Hope you find something you love.

Why don't you decide on the meaning before the name?

Say you want, Strong and Brave, you research what names mean that?

Alright, no need to be defensive. It's just such an extremely small part of a person's life, coming to question the meaning of a name everybody knows as "just a name", that I would not bat an eye of a mundane definition like bendy. It's just an "oo that's interesting" moment, not something with any actual significance.

*which names mean that!

Sorry sloppy writing!

@35andthriving yeh, I like Felix bit DH doesn't :(
And yes I agree, it is a "me" thing to do to have researched the meanings so I think to see "crooked nose" and go along with it isn't typical of me!
@CharlieWorkCharlieSad I just spent some time doing that but didn't see anything jumping out at me!

I guess I need to wait until next week when I have my scan and then can worry about a boys name if having a boy.

Lowen is a nice name I heard recently

I think Cameron means 'crooked nose' so trying to spin it into a more positive 'bendy' meaning doesn't quite work.. which doesn't matter if the meaning of a name doesn't really matter to you, but if it does then it does. It would also still be quite closely linked to David Cameron.. which would put me off a lot more.

@Ariela that's far too outlandish for my husband lol

@villamariavintrapp I have a friend called Cameron and he is the most lovely person ever that I am not even thinking of "famous" Cameron's but David Cameron certainly lived up to the meaning lol

The only other name we both were happy with for a while was Benjamin but DH has quite a lot of Ben friends he wasn't 100% about it.

Tobias and Jonathan both mean gift and both lovely names, l think!!

It has made me laugh that the name is Cameron. We nearly named DS1 this but went with something else for entirely different reasons. But as soon as I saw your title it reminded me of Cameron. It's a great name, don't let it put you off.

I think it’s fine to be put off by the meaning of a name. It’s not much different than being put off because you encountered someone with that name. I can’t remember which name it was now but I’ve definitely moved on from a name because of the meaning.

I’m also obviously place marking so I can read through your boys list to see if any jump out at me. I’ve fallen out of love with my boys name and we won’t finding out the sex so I need to find one just in case.

The David Cameron thing is funny, my brain goes straight to Cameron Diaz.
What about something else old fashioned
Chester
Clifford
Charles
Clarence
Clyde

Milton
Percy
Walter
Edmund
Mortimer
Oscar
Ralph
Albert

I like Oscar and could maybe get DH on board with that.
Our last name is tricky to get a good flowing first name. It's only one syllable so I think the first name need to be two syllables at least.

I really like the name Cameron - my association to it is an incredibly gifted, brave South African jurist, Edwin Cameron. Though I appreciate that’s a bit niche!

These things are so subjective. If the meaning of the name is insurmountable for you then unfortunately there’s little to be done.

Cameron has a regal edge to it, what with being an old clan name. I think it goes really well with Arthur. And Cameron would have his own tartan 😆

Kamran means ‘successful’ or ‘lucky’

We have an Arthur bear too. If we have another son he will probably be George or Alexander, although through this thread I've found out George means farmer. Alexander means defender of men, so I hope I don't breed a MRA 😁