Boy name help please

[georgianwindow]

DH and I have very different taste in boy names and are struggling. I can't tell you how many lists of names I have read but I'm hoping somebody might think of one I haven't seen.

DHs taste includes names like: Jonathan, Charles, Jensen. He likes traditional names (I know Jensen isn't traditional).
My taste includes things like: Cyrus, Atlas, Atticus. I like unusual names.

We did briefly agree on Harrison but have gone off that since. Enzo is still on the table but it doesn't feel right.

Equally unhelpful is our family's faces whenever we mention names that we are considering (just say "that's a nice name" ffs?! Don't say nothing at all whilst putting on the fakest smile I have ever seen) as if we manage to agree on one then one of us gets put off by reactions.

Who's Patrick Star, by the way?

Gabriel (Gabe NN)
Rex
Percy
Casper
Otto

Who's Patrick Star, by the way?

He is a cartoon starfish from Spongebob Squarepants, which was quite a popular cartoon in the late 90s/early 00s.

Flynn
Jacob
Orlando
Miles

Jacques
Kurt
Torin
Wade
Dominic
Ayrton
Kalman
Elias
Fraser
Jeremy
Jonah
Jonas
Corbin
Uriah
Curtis
Lincoln
Lleyton
Trey
Vance
Dane
Hudson
Kingston
Regan
Elliot
Logan
Kahn
Cooper
Cole
Chad

What about Rupert?

Because our eldest gets excited and tells people, and we want her to feel as involved in this as possible so don't want to keep it a secret from her

It's the parents' decision what a child is called, not the sibling's.

It's the parents' decision what a child is called, not the sibling's.

No, but we think it's easier for a young child to adjust to the idea of having a sibling if they feel involved in as much as possible, that includes knowing what they might be called, so that the sibling has more of an identity and isn't just a concept.

Would that not be confusing for a small child to be told what their sibling might be called? Then to be called something completely different?

I think that if a sibling is involved the baby will get named after their best friend that week or a cartoon character or something.

I don't think young children need to know about their soon-to-be sibling until fairly close to the birth as time is much longer when you're little.

Mine were close in age so DC2 would have been named Babba

Aaron?

Or any of the other possible ways of spelling it depending on how you want it pronounced?

And as another poster said, “Louis” and “Louie” are so common these days, but I agree that Lewis isn’t heard so much these days and is actually a really lovey name.

I appreciate your thoughts on that but we aren't letting our daughter name the baby, we are just talking to her about baby and who they are going to be. You may have not done it this way yourselves but that is the way that we would like to discuss it with her. There is an age gap between them so she is old enough to understand.

Thank you for all of your name suggestions too, I have fired a few over to DH and am waiting for him to eventually reply! I really love one of the names that has been suggested here so I'm hoping he likes it too...

Ooh let us know what he thinks and what you decide on!

Ooh let us know what he thinks and what you decide on!

I will do! I will be gutted if he doesn't love the one I love!

Fingers crossed he does @georgianwindow!

Silas
Emil(e)
Joel
Elliot
Nathaniel
Daniel

victor
otis
spencer
griffin
magnus
silas
cosmo
caspian
rex
ludo
apollo
quinn
torin
casper
otto
orson
stellan
evander
elio
vincent
rafe
rufus
rudy
lucian
loki
leonidas

So you need a less common, traditional name?

Josiah
Barnabus
Ranulph
Digby
Caspian
Nathaniel
Montgomery
Diggory
Bruno
Fenton
Cornelius
Gilbert
Ernest
Lawrence
Connor
Leopold
Balthazar
Garett

Let the sibling choose from the list after the two vetoes

Micah
Gregor
Mungo
Columba

Miles
Benjamin
Jack
Xavier
William
Leo
Oliver
Thomas
William
Tobin
Casper
Liam
Theodore
Asher
Elijah
Matteo
Mason

Nathan / Nathaniel/ Nate
Rowan
Theo / Theodore
Justin
Owen
Christian
Marcus
Luke
Jared
Quinn
Rafferty / Raff
Zachary / Zach
Leon

Let the sibling choose from the list after the two vetoes

I think we might have to do this as DH is being very 'indifferent' to every name I suggest and I have probably now suggested well over 25/30 names. He likes the ones I have suggested from this thread but not enough to call a child it. He keeps saying I named our daughter so he should name this one, I'm not sure how short his memory is but we both picked her name. And even if that was reasonable, he should pick from a joint short list, not pick a name I've said I don't like at all.

Me and my DH were struggling to come up with a name for our first son and there was nothing we were both as equally keen on. In the end I met my husband choose the name and even though I wasn’t keen for a good few months I then grew to love it and I love it even more now! (He’s nine years old).

Incidentally, my husband chose the name for our second son too as I really didn’t feel strongly about any name.

The names you like are pretty popular. If you're after unusual you'd be better going with your husbands taste tbh!