What is your absolute favourite lovely boys name?

[BiscuitLover09876]

First one that comes to mind please

Remy

Alexander

Cameron 100%

Dave. Or Gary

Oliver
Rory
Alexander
James
Theo

Struan

Lucas. Favourite for 20 years, which is good because we used it for DS1!

My DD would have been a Seth.... Like that's it getting a few mentions here as I rarely hear it!

I’ve got a Reuben of my own. He’s nearly 49. We were well ahead of the trend when we named him.
Our friends had just got a guineapig. Other friend had to dash round and tell them they couldn’t call it Reuben as the Trickies had just named their baby that.
I have sometimes said to Roo, ‘“We nearly called you Rupert”.he always says ‘Thank God you didn’t, mum.” (apologies to any mums with Ruperts, I love it even if DS doesn’t )

Rowan and Jasper :)

Joel

@dootball DEREK ?? Really ?

Joshua

Joel

Adam

Rafael.

Darius

Spenser

@Livpool

Jude

My lovely boy's name

Same 😊 I have a Josh and a Jude

@Thewolvesarerunningagain I have a boy called Tristan!

@SirChenjins

Magnus reminds me of Matilda! Mrs honeys fathers name...

@toastofthetown

It's interesting to me that James is so popular on this thread, but it has been declining in popularity for years. It will probably drop out of the top 25 names for the first time since records began when the 2021 name data is released.

Agree with you, I wonder if it's specific to the Mumsnet demographic that a lot of the faves mentioned on this thread could be considered classics. But then many of the most traditional boys names (ones that have pretty much always been in the top 50 - like William, Thomas etc as well as James) are gradually declining in popularity. With the exception of George and Henry it seems that many of most timeless names are dropping down as a lot of people seem to want something "different" than the past generation or two.

Btw (like quite a few others in this thread) my favourite boys is William - as well as being timeless, it's vast popularity years ago means he'll have some fantastic namesakes, from "the Conqueror" to Wallace to Wilberforce to Shakespeare...

Dominic
Theo

Ewan 💙

Ruaridh

If I were naming a boy now: Magnus