Oh god. The shame of finding myself on this section but GIVE ME BOYS' NAMES PLEASE

[FrannyandZooey]

I am so stuck. I have girls' names galore, please give me nice slightly arty boys' names that won't get hugely popular in a year or two

I really can NOT call my child Frank. I can't. Aitch I WILL NOT DO IT

River with my surname is hilarious
imagine River Smith
River Jones

What do you like apart from Magnus?

what name is nearly right but not quite?

vincent, then. or... laurence. i've never met a horrible laurence. shortened to laurie, which is a Boys' Name.

ARDEN
Arden is JUST right but I can't use it with my surname
and Sacha
Sacha is beautiful but we used it for ds's middle name and he says NO we can't use it again

Laurie is a GIRLS NAME in this house
vincent is starry starry niiiiiiight

Is Aidan too popular/Gaelic.

I know it's ridiculously popular in US.

What about Corbin?

I'm having a think about this one. L8a.

Laurie Lee? I had an Uncle Laurie who was a lovely person (and definitely not a girl).

Where do you stand on 'old men's names', like Albert, Walter, Fred, Sidney, Stanley, Alfred, etc.?

Madame... I loved Corbin when I was pg (vetoed by dh - and anyway I had two girls).

Haven't read whole threwad, but ...

Taran
Jago

I like the resurgence of old men's names in theory but don't want to use one
ds has a friend called Corbin, agree it is cool

Declan
Keenan

wonky you slacker
how can you possibly not be bothered to read the whole thread

I didn't put that much work into my own sons' names...

Franny I'm going to watch this thred and pick my way through for next time.

Love Corbin btw

How about Cole or Rohan?

What about Auden, as in WH Auden, the stop all the clocks geezer. NOw that's arty.

Or Brendan? Has some of the sound of Arden, but none of the artyness. I like Brendan, it's the Brandons, Braidens etc that make me wince.

I love old man names, but not the obvious ones. Arthur, nah, too 'of the moment'. I love Victor, Gilbert, Wilfred..

And in a less daring way, I love Richie for being a classic alternative to Archie, and for the hundreth time, would somebody somewhere please name their child Victor? What is wrong wiht you all, I would call my son Victor if I hadn't already named him?

Rocco is a fav of mine

Dh likes Holden

Arlo is growing on me. I do feel a bit sorry for his brother Ackney though - but at least he is easily spotted.

we can't really have an 'en' or 'on' ending name, except for, apparently, Lucien (surname issues)

Hmm should it be short or long then?

Harley
Cole

yes, short or long

Indiana.

dp's fave. I'm not convinced.

but he also says 'we could shorten it to Indie'

Now that's arty!