I feel like I have read every list of names for boys and we just can’t find a name we truly love. There are loads of names out there that are ok, and when I hear it on someone else I think ‘ah that’s nice,’ but I just don’t want to use it. I feel like we’re looking for something unusual, but not too out there, it doesn’t have to be unique, I just feel like I’ve read all the usual lists and still can’t find the one. We had some really good girls’ names, but nope, it’s definitely a boy!
Currently the only name we have is Ferdinand. I love, love, love Ferdi, but I’m not sure I love Ferdinand (see below re no surnames). We’d mostly use Ferdi day to day, but don’t want to give a shortened version on the birth certificate. So we would go with Ferdinand, but wonder if there’s something better we haven’t yet thought of. If it helps, here’s an idea of what we’re not keen on (aggh the list is long):
Anything too traditional ie James, Edward, John etc
Nothing too out there i.e Aloysius, Cosmo, Ulysses
Nothing too trendy now - Roman, Arlo, Kit, Otto
No surnames- Harrison, Spencer, etc
Nothing too American- Brody, Logan
Nothing too biblical- Ezra, Isaac, Reuben
Nothing too old man- Lionel, Percy, Leonard
Nothing too 80s- Steve, Gary, Barry, Kevin
Sorry nothing against any of these names, they’re all solid names, I’m just using them as a reference as we just don’t love them. I feel like I’m asking the impossible, but is there a gem of a name that doesn’t appear regularly on these threads (which I read a lot) and we may have overlooked? (Sorry this is long, thanks for getting this far! )