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

Congratulations! I'll never have a son so you are very welcome to 'my' names, F&Z, if you like any of them.

I love Hugo (nephew is Hugo - gorgeous boy).
I also seriously considered Gil and Leon.

A friend's son is called Eden, which I like (also the child can shorten to Ed if he grows up to hate it!).

Good luck and I hope you find the perfect name.

Patsy

Sorry, just saw your post re endings. If Lucien is okay would Julian also work?

I like Eden but it can't be done (surname)
Gil is nice isn't it

Indiana?

So that's Mogadon out of the running then?

yes Julian would be fine
I am not mad keen though (bit famous five)

Mir
ephraim
pablo
Ricardo

MOGADON! That's great
I'll tell dp

right thread over

Can you give us a clue to your sur name? Tell us what it starts with and put in a few asterisks.

Mogadon? Like it. ANd I was about to suggest Codeine.

well as said earlier it is not Boden but not a million miles away

What about Holden, as in Caulfield. That has a touch of the Arden about it. That must have crossed your mind. It's a bit more Masc. than Arden.

Does HOlden sound rubbish with your sn?

Noooo F&Z you're nearly at 1000.

I bet no-one's name thread has ever reached 1000 posts before, keep going ladies!

Ok, HOlden Boden. That sounds like a euphemism for something......

Basically anything with two syllables that ends in -en or -an is going to sound a bit lame.

So that just leaves you with Victor really

MadameC yes I'm afraid so

sorky I will probably start another one when this one ends

'franny's poncy name thread continued'

You were like I was. I was so stuck on Gus. Surname García. Gus Garcia, ummm lovely. But Gwyneth Paltrow did Moses Martin and what sounds worse than that?!

I didn't do Gus García in the end though, I just couldn't.

What about foreign names?

Giulio
Guido
Luca (quite popular, though)
Federico
Francesco/Franco
Davide (pronounced DAH-vee-day)
Stefano (emphasis on the first syllable)
Lorenzo (Laurie by another name)
Didier (my absolute fave French name; Didier Boden sounds fab)

How about
Alder
Beck
Conrad

Well, we have chosen ours (we are def having a boy) but you are welcome to it if you love it as much as us (most people in rl seem to hate it so far... oops... but you never know, it might do a 'finley' and become more well-known...). Our dd's name is pretty unheard of too but our ds will be

Skyler

and we prob will shorten to Sky... hippy boy!

(PS I put your books in the post today!)

no NOT foreign names please
I mean not overtly foreign ones

Oh, we/I/dh liked Emil, Leon, Dexter, Ezekiel and Felix too.

oh man, Beck
dp would like that
hmmmm

nope

Alder is a good one, I don't think so but I like 'nature' names

hello umlella! I was thinking about you - how is it going? Skyler is nice.

OK. Soz. I like Conrad.

I was thinking Ndugu - from 'About Schmidt' but probably too foreign.
Petros quite close to Pet Rock?

preen you like leander

tho as i never read the thread before posting i was probably not the first to put it lol

if it's a girl have zelda