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Catholic saint names (boy)

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BoysNameHelp · 06/07/2024 21:33

Help!! Looking for Catholic saint names for a little boy.

Names we like:

Wilfrid (too popular?)
Oswald
Bartholomew (too similar to our son's name)
Herbert

I love Ambrose and Augustine but DH not sold for a first name, likes for middle name

Very open to suggestion!

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Bunchesofhyacinths · 07/07/2024 07:42

MissyB1 · 06/07/2024 21:45

Patrick
Thomas
Francis

My 3 Favourites.

My grandfather and his two brothers. Great names.

CurlewKate · 07/07/2024 07:49

Michael
Peter
Jude
Simon

Lemonsole · 07/07/2024 10:05

Benedict

Abbreviates well, too, if they want to blend in more when older.

user1492757084 · 08/07/2024 16:18

Columbus
Nicholas
Oscar
Hugh
Arnulf
Clement
Constantine
Coleman
Charles
Thomas

3luckystars · 08/07/2024 16:22

Wilfrid too popular 😂that’s gas!!!

Gabriel Michael Raphael

Wild Card: Urban

mathanxiety · 08/07/2024 16:55

Eustace
Edmund
Henry
John
Richard
Alban
Ralph
Robert
(Among the 40 English martyrs)

Thomas / Becket

Cosmas
Faustus
Cornelius
Dismas
Erasmus
Titus (Biblical, but also Saint Titus Brandsma, Dutch priest martyred in Dachau)
Marius
Justus
Nicodemus

Damien
Adrian
Quentin
Lucien
Julian
Justin

Clement
Leo
Gregory

Ansgar
Benno
Casimir
Stanislaus
Isidore
Killian
Ivo
Jacoby
Jerome
Julius

I'd avoid Oswald because of Mosley.

I'd avoid names that are too obscure or any name Jacob Rees Mogg would bestow on his offspring (unless you're Mrs Rees Mogg of course).

TheBottomsOfMyTrousersAreRolled · 09/07/2024 22:39

BoysNameHelp · 07/07/2024 07:20

Thank you - lots of great suggestions to consider! We almost went with Bede for our son and it's actually his middle name so not sure if it would be weird to use it for another baby's first name... We love all of the history of the Northern saints.

I think my new shortlist is:

Dunstan
Florian
Oswald
Ambrose
Cassian
Aidan
Augustine
Wilfrid

Is go ambrose from that list. Definitely not aidan.

AliceMcK · 09/07/2024 22:47

LlynTegid · 07/07/2024 07:39

When your son is born, if it is the feast day of one of your shortlist of names, or perhaps the birth date of a pope who took one of the names, could that be the basis of your final choice?

This is a very good idea.

my dd is named after a saint, the name came about in a very meaningful way, we hadn’t planned on it as we had already settled on name we both loved.

Without being too outing as it’s a unique story I’ve told many times. A summary with a few changes, during a very heartfelt emotional visit to ancestral place I saw a sign, figuratively and literally. I wasn’t sure what it meant at the time, but the location of the sign had extremely significant meaning to my family. It as located on the same street named after one of the saints I listed above, a place my grandmother talked about all the time when I was little. We were on our way to a church my family all attended in their home country. Inside the church I learnt the sign was a saints name. There were so many connections to my family history and our family situation at the time to this saint including had I had a boy he would have definitely had a name relating to this saint, that was decided before we knew what sex we were having, regardless of the saint connection, it was an important family name. So that was it, I was hooked. I was 5 months pregnant at the time.

Gcsunnyside23 · 09/07/2024 22:53

Aidan
Jude
Maximilian (max)
Blaise
Fabian
Killian
Malachy

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