Boys names that are out of the ordinary, or related to 'nature'

[chaoskay]

We don't know if we are having a girl or a boy and if we have a boy I have no idea what we are going to call him!

Help!

Our first daughter is called Daisy Harriet, and I've decided that if we have a girl the next one will be called Clover (possibly second name, Amelie) - corny I know, but it's because Daisy and Clover grow together. (she says a bit sheepishly).

I love names rooted in nature, but boys names are very hard to come across. I like the name Cyrus (no nature link there at all by the way), but apart from that I'm drawing a blank. I briefly considered the name Leif (kind of norweigian name I think, but it's bordering on sounding too hippy). I don't mind the name Seth, but it reminds me of that old bloke with a flat cap who used to be on Emmerdale.

These are the other names I've considered, but they do have to go with a very boring English surname, so some of them would sound ridiculous.

Lorne
Cassius
Cyrus
Juno
Isaac (meaning laughter)
Oren (tree)
Roden (from the valley of the reeds)
Varden (meaning green)
Merle (meaning blackbird)

Does anyone have any bright ideas?

Alasdair- mountain names are good- Skye has some fab ones.

bradon=keeper of water and salmon

It's the combination of Daisy and Clover that might provoke a reaction, rather than either name individually. I just have forebodings of lots of cow jokes.

How about Bryn (for a boy)? Welsh for 'hill'.

There are Logan berries so logan fits your nature theme

cahal=battle,great wariror,mighty and honourable

ciaran=little dark one

DP suggested (Bark)ley?
Or
(Elm)er
or
Hemp(frey)

Did someone say Ash?
Scottish

Lochie
Glen
Munro

Its tough when you like what you like. I loooooooove the name Mungo but everyone just looks at me aghast when I mention it as a possibility. I think its cool though.

torrin or corrie

Mungo is cool - the patron saint of Glasgow.
Oh another name is Cairns I used to have an English Literature lecturer called Cairns. It means big heaps of stones.

nairn too

How about
John
Peter
James
Thomas
Matthew
Andrew
Timothy
Simon
Nicholas
Alexander
William

Most of them are really unusual!

Agree with Seeker - I think you need to think v carefully before giving your child a wacky, hippy name.

30 years ago I chose what hippy name' (it wasnt) just a bit unusual at the time.

Within a couple of yeasr the Six million Dollar Man was on and it became as common as muck!

Names go around and come around, what is deemed to be 'odd, hippy, unusual now, by the time the child is aadult can often be common place.

So the old addage that the wouldnt be taken serously in later life with a different name really dosnt hold water.

30 yeasr ago you would not have dreamt of giving a child a ' old lady/man name' now it is the norm.

How about the much-debated Brock?

I love Jay,....

Reef
Brac
Cayman

Isn't Luka/Lucas Greek for dog or wolf (as in lycanthropy)?

I knew someone who had two boys called Moss and Bracken.

James shortened to Jay is lovely

Please not Sonny - how could you be a High Court Judge called Sonny?

Or for that matter, a middle aged man of any occupation?

I know someone who has two sheepdogs called Moss and Bracken!

tree hugging baby names

not read whole thread, scuse if already said, we gave ds2 middle name of Linden (tree) could be Den/Denny for short.