Boys names ! OLD ENGLISH

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Hi all,

Wondered if anyone could please help. Struggling so much with picking a boys name! I like really unusual but DH does not! So compromising on a name that is heard of but not common! Any ideas... please post xxxx

Lots here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English_Roman_Catholic_saints

Vaughan/Vaughn is an anglicised welsh name

Edwin
Edmund
John
Bernard
Thaddeus
Lionel

If you go to nameberry, you can input six or so names that you like and it will generate suggestions for you.

Leofric

Edgar

Edmund (my favourite)

Ragnar (another favourite)

Erik

Thorold

Thormund

Nicholas

Jago

Oswin
Wulfric
Aelfric

All potential names for DS1 (ended up being Edmund because I couldn't convince DH!)

Eric
Geoffrey
Oswald
Cynric
Penda
Uhtred

Edwin
Alaric

Uhtred

Watt

Not English I know, but Douglas is a fantastic old fashioned name due a revival I think

Choose a name you like, he's your son.Most of these names are awful.

Beric

Gwillam

Isambard
Rudyard
Sholto
Ebenezer
Godfrey
Hugh
Inigo

Enys

Some really nice suggestions here. I especially liked Edgar.

All getting a big Viking here for an Old English thread. Cnut?

Jude

Emrys
Geraint
Padraig
Osric

Stanley

I have a friend with a baby boy called Offa. After the initial surprise wore off I actually like it a lot, apparently its a very old name.

Guy
Blaise
Rafe
John
Miles
Giles
Rufus
Francis
Alberic
Dominic
Nicholas
Barnabas
Josiah
Isambard
Harold
Ernest
Arnold
Wilfred
Walter
Edwin
Edmund
Peter
Julian
Lucien
Julius
Justin
Alistair
Angus
Kester
Digby
Diggory
Silas
Seth
Saul
Jerome
Jonathan
Zachariah
Jeremiah

Hrothgar