my accent ruins all boys names please help me

[Marzipan23]

hello,
looking for boys names and have a strong yorkshire accent to contend with, I also really dislike pretty much all boys names, finding on the baby lists they are either nice but way too common for my liking or really out there!
quite like robin (but hate rob as a nickname) austin and dexter
please help me! also no comments on the names I do like please 😂 the list is small enough

Maybe a short name like Max?

I think Austin is a good one, trying to think what it might be shortened to - Ozzie perhaps? But probably fairly easy to avoid if you don't like that.

I have family in Yorkshire with Austin as a surname so I can hear it exactly in my head and I think it sounds fine. Dexter might get the last two letters dragged in a strong Yorkshire accent, or end up as 'Dex-tuh'?

How about Sebastian / Seb? My own Yorkshire accent is very soft these days but I don't think I drag it?

Speak in a less strong accent if you don’t like it.

Austin and Robin are nice.

Max and Sebastian are both on the right path! added to the list thanks!!
I quite like ozzie as a nickname, I am wondering if enough time has passed that I wont get austin powers references...

As for my accent - be sensible, short of running elocution lessons for the entirity of Yorkshire...

I love a Yorkshire accent, far nicer than my common southern one 😂

Austin is great, Max is good, I think they all sound good tbh.

Austin is great or how about
Reuben
Quentin
Marcus

I like your name ideas, especially Dexter. I like the previous ideas of Max and Sebastian too. Do you like -

Evan
Ellis
Zachary / Zach
Patrick
Ralph
Frank
Ethan
Flynn
Alistair
Dominic
Laurence
Liam
Rex
Casper
Jasper
Peter

Ignore the comment about changing your accent OP, as if everyone in your area will change theirs too There's nothing at all wrong with a regional accent, and some words / names work better in some than in others.

As I said my accent is pretty soft after 20 years down south now but I wouldn't choose anything like Jake or Blake for my DC because I still naturally elongate the A slightly in that combination of letters.

I can’t imagine your lovely Yorkshire accent ruins the names OP. I like Dexter from your list. Reuben is nice too. Or just a classic like Tom or Ben.

If you like Seb/Sebastian what about Alex/Alexander?

As for my accent - be sensible, short of running elocution lessons for the entirity of Yorkshire

I didn’t think you were complaining about other people’s accents, just your own? Allegedly, my Brummie father joined the RAF sounding like Jasper Carrot, not a sustainable situation, and he now speaks ‘Queens English’, so it’s quite possible to soften an accent if it bothers you

I don’t see how your accent ruins boys names? How about Arlo, it’s popular now and suits any age, also a real name going back over 1,000 years in Britain.

I also live in Yorkshire, I don’t have a strong accent but was careful to choose baby names that would sound pretty much the same in any accent. Ruled out loads based on how they sounded in broad Yorkshire.

In an accent renowned for dragging vowels, Arlo would come out as 'Aaar-low' for me - confirmed by my just asking DH to say it how he thinks I'd say it

Never mind the widely Yorkshire habit of pre-fixing loved one's names with 'Our' or 'R'.

I can't imagine 'R' Aaar-low' is what the OP is going for

Arlo is a great example of a name than can be ruined by a broad Yorkshire twang!

@FoleyHuck more like Aaar-lor where I am!

AhI love Austin and Dexter, both on my very short list too! Sorry I don't have many suggestions but I feel you. We considered Ziggy, River and Sonny...but may be a bit out there for you

Elliot
Sam

Ethan
Soren

Haha😂maybe not then eh?

I have a 22 year old Robin and no one has ever called him 'Rob' ditto his father who's obviously a lot older. In fact at school bizarrely a Scottish teacher insisted on calling him 'Robbie' which I actually quite like but I assume she had misheard Robin at some point rather than a nickname.

Having said all that I actually wanted to call him Dexter but got veto'd. He always looks horrified that I had even considered Dexter.

How about a name starting with Eee? 😁
so, no names starting and ending with a vowel.
That narrows it down a bit.

Tom
Darren
Ben
James
Sam
Nathan
Logan

If only it were that simple.

Edward : Fine
Andrew : Fine
Arthur : Aaaarfer



It's the 'Ar' I struggle with, and then a tendency to drag out A's or O's within some words (We have an annual Boat Show in our area and I'm annually ribbed for the way I lengthen both words. See also 'Coke', 'No', and 'Toast').