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Boys name you weren’t quite brave enough to use?

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Babyboynamehmm · 09/10/2022 03:28

Struggling to think of another boys’ name. I like names that aren’t super popular - so i’d love to hear your boy name choices that maybe were ever-so-slightly too “out there” for you to use!

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Idratherbepaddleboarding · 09/10/2022 09:51

Rheneas, Kirby and not at all out there but I love Riley but couldn’t use it due to all the negative connotations.

Lilacsunflowers · 09/10/2022 09:52

So many 'brave' names mentioned on this thread are pretty standard around where I live. At our Secondary we have boys called
Sebastian, Quentin, Caspar, Alister, Dexter.

ChakaKhanfan · 09/10/2022 09:59

Gabriel is a great name, don’t think that’s out there at all.

I really like Fife and Colm but didn’t feel I could use them sadly ☹️
also loved Nouri but couldn’t bring myself to do it

CornedBeef451 · 09/10/2022 10:00

Castiel or Rowan

Hoppinggreen · 09/10/2022 10:01

Lucifer

Jleome · 09/10/2022 11:03

Nicolai
Neil

LokiDokiArtichoki · 09/10/2022 11:10

Balthazar
Azazel

sageandbasil · 09/10/2022 11:13

Florian
Casper
Axel
Barnaby
Rufus
Percy
Oswald
Guy

theremustonlybeone · 09/10/2022 11:16

Troy
Kit
Peter

ChurryBun · 09/10/2022 11:19

Cassius
Digby
Willoughby
Leroy
Axel
Sigge
Søren

It wasn't so much I wasn't brave enough to use them, more that DH loathed them!

SmallMexicanChihuahua · 09/10/2022 11:37

Drake

nancydroo · 09/10/2022 11:43

Otto

JessesMum777888 · 09/10/2022 11:45

I wanted Cruz (long long before the beckhams )
then partner hated it.

soulinablackberrypie · 09/10/2022 11:47

I liked Jago, Jarvis and Riley. DH thought they were too out there - but then he liked Tobias (which I don't hate, but he wanted Toby for short and I thought why not just call him Toby in that case, so we went for something completely different).

AlwaysFoldingWashing · 09/10/2022 11:47

Rudi

17caterpillars1mouse · 09/10/2022 11:51

We have girls so never got to the stage of naming a boy and thinking some were a bit too out there

However, more unusual names we considered

Cedric
Edgar / Edwin
Lucian
Nathaniel
Rufus
Humphrey
Samson
Henrik
Alaric
Alexandru
Camelot
Benedict
Leander
Micah

PinkButtercups · 09/10/2022 12:06

LynetteScavo · 09/10/2022 08:26

DH wouldn't let me use:

Amadeus (there was a an Amadeus in DSs school and he set fire to the boys toilets and never returned, so maybe a good thing)

Bruce

Angus

Hamish

Milo (also several in his year at school so not really "out there")

Bruno

Arnold

Howard

Todd

My DS is Milo.

He hasn't met another one yet!

fleurdelee · 09/10/2022 12:07

Lysander

octoberfarm · 09/10/2022 12:08

Ooh, also: Emilio, Raphael and Matteo.

MrsMoastyToasty · 09/10/2022 12:11

Stirling
Murray

We wanted a Scottish/Formula One type name.

SardineJam · 09/10/2022 12:15

Tristan

VeganSoulFood · 09/10/2022 12:31

Fivebeanchilli · 09/10/2022 09:45

OP do be aware that some of these names that people weren't "brave" enough to use are pretty much top 20 in lots of parts of the UK eg Felix and Gabriel.

For me it was Taliesin. I would have loved to use that but wouldn't have been brave enough.

Yes, what on earth would be ‘brave’ about calling your child Cillian, Barnaby, Cormac, Felix, Lachlan, Seamus, Tadhg, or Otto, to mention only a few?

Lilacsunflowers · 09/10/2022 12:34

What's 'brave' about most of these names Confused?

They're much more interesting and memorable than the common names like Alfie, Oliver or Jack!

TheVanguardSix · 09/10/2022 12:34

Linus
Isambard
Merlin

Dreamingcats · 09/10/2022 13:40

whatausername · 09/10/2022 03:32

Abraham
Ananias
Amadeus
Asher (not that out there tbf)
Ether
Zepheniah
Wyatt
Quentin
Gilbert
Hillary (people see it as a girl name now)

I love Hilary for a boy!!! I thought I was the only one!!!

Also not brave enough to use Aslan, Esteban, Merlin, D'Artagnan, Athos or Vangelis