Boys names are hard

[ancienthouse]

I can't think of any that I like!

Would like something not top twenty, but not too unusual so a name that people will likely have heard of.
No biblical names.
Like the sound of Welsh and Scandinavian origin names.

Any ideas?

Soren
Magnus
Keir

Not all Welsh/Scandi, but here are some names out of the top 20 I like. Not sure if any of them are biblical (I'm not very biblical so would need to look it up!) but none are overtly religious like Elijah/Josiah.

August
Casimir
Henrik
Linus
Magnus
Rasmus
Robin
Stellan

Not necessarily Welsh or Scandinavian but how about

Magnus
Quentin
Raphael
Caspar
Leonard

I like your style!

My sons:
Evan - Welsh
Jonas - Scandi

Now I'll change my MN name again 😂

@biftaa, Jonas is from the bible

Conrad
Byron
Rufus

Some anglicised welsh names -
Lloyd
Vaughan
Owen
Griffith

Some Welsh names -
Bryn
Glyn
Huw
Aled
Iestyn

Have you got no names in the family tree that you like that you could shorten etc?

I like the following as they are less common.

Xander
Xavier
Joel
Lenny
Issac

Otto
Arlo
Axel
Finn
Lars
Sven
Aaren
Boe
Kai
Magnus
Roscoe
Viggo
Thor

I love
Conn
Conrad
Pascal
Magnus
Linus
Vilmar

I'm not a great reader of the bible, but I thought it was JonaH and the whale? I dunno, perhaps there is a Jonas in there.

I consider Jonas a very Northern European name, like the author (Swedish?). My Jonas plays football with a Lithuanian Jonas of the same age, whose family pronounce it "yonas". I picked the name after the Weezer song 😂

Have you got no names in the family tree that you like that you could shorten etc?

Everyone in the family tree seems to be named Matthew, Mark, John, James... very biblical!

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Some nice names but nothing that's grabbed me so far.

@biftaa, Jonah and Jonas are both biblical. IIRC, Jonah is OT and Jonas NT.

I have a Magnus, pleased to see it getting so much love on here!

We also considered:

Jonas
Stellan
Torsten
Hector
Harold/Harald (Hal)

Idris
Macsen

I quite like Idris, like Cader Idris.

Adam
Arne/Arno
Elias
Einar
Emil
Erik (Eric, Eirik)
Ivo/Ivor/Iver
Kristian
Mathias
Oskar/Oscar
Tobias

Lucas
Jesper
Caspar
Ellis

Steffen
Bruno
Elis
Owen
Kerr
Struan
Innes

Ioan
Bryn
Gerwyn
Glyn
Lars
Anders
Odin

Henrik
Felix

Osian
Torben
Stellan

If I was to ever have another boy (not going to happen as we are happy with our three) he'd either be called Fenn or Leif.

DD would've been Leif if age was a boy

If you pick a very obviously Welsh or Scandinavian name (with local pronunciations) with no actual ties to those countries it might be a bit odd.

My suggestions for uncommon names would be:

Nico
Farley
Leon

Emrys