Please be kind to me ..

[mrssunshinexxx]

As the title says would really appreciate no one being too savage. I am asking for opinions but be gentle with me.
36 weeks pregnant with my third baby , first boy. With my girls I just knew their names nothing and no one could of swayed me but this time I'm struggling
There's one I LOVE but it is quite unique so that's what holds me back but then I think I look on this thread daily currently and in 20 years time when he's an adult his name is not going to stick out.
Surname one syllable Irish name.
Rocky
Sydney ( definitely spelt this way)
Phoenix
Harrison ( would like this as middle name to Rocky)
Sonny ( becoming really popular near me )

Thanks in advance

I love Rocco and you could call him that and shorten it to Rocky. There’s a wonderful novel by Barbara Pym, Excellent Women, with a male character called Rockingham, shortened to Rocky. Rockingham would be a bit much though!

Rocky - dreadful even for a dog
Sydney - not the capital of Australia. Sidney is not too bad.
Phoenix - Arizona
Harrison - OK, prefer Harry
Sonny - ok as a nickname but not as a name.

I'd choose Harrison nn Sonny.

Sonny is awful and I really don't get why people like it. It is as pp said just a synonym for boy.

Of the others, I love Phoenix, but I do think it is a hard name to carry off, trying to imagine an adult male phoenix and it sound lieke someone in a rock band, as a nn, not a real name.

I think Harris as a shortening of Harrison is really nice, and Harrison is a great name.

Rocky - makes me think of boxing films where guys are macho and thick and so would not name my son that.

Sydney, as other have said the y makes it seem like a girls name.

Harrison is nice.
Prefer Rosco or Rocco to Rocky

Harris is rhyming slang for arse.

Harrison nn Sonny is a great idea 👍

It's actually Arris, short for Aristotle.

most here now use Harris - it's morphed from arris. @SoupDragon

Harris and Harrison are popular where I am in Scotland. The other names are more for pets I think - Sidney is fine but is my friend’s dog’s name.

Sidney is lovely.

Sydney is a girl's name.

The rest are not nice.

I also thought Sydney was the female spelling. Spelled Sidney it's my favourite from this list.

I used to know a cat named Rocky.

I honestly can't understand Sonny as a name for an adult man.

Rocky - D-list boxer
Sydney - nah
Phoenix - nah
Harrison - fine
Sonny - D-list boxer

Have you considered Jamieson?

No @s3tut0y3r but don't like that but thank you always open to other suggestions

Sonny = D-list boxer

Or Cher's ex (although his real name was Salvatore).

Harris is the best one of all. Just up with that as his 1st name.

Rocky will be nn Rocco straight away but i like that.

Sonny is nice , where i live, there are lots of Asians spelt 'Sunny' short for 'Surinder'

Not sure it's helpful or not but I didn't name DC, or have a fixed idea for a name until they were born.
There were names I liked, but I had to see my DC to work out what name suited them.

I think your list is fine, if they're names you truly like (and potentially even the more 'out there' one you mention), but maybe wait and see?

@ymemanresu he won't , we hate that 😂

@TeabySea I'm steering towards doing this just waiting and seeing what feels right when we meet him just strange because k knew with my girls from the moment I found out

Rocky makes me think of the Rocky Horror Show. It's been around for about 50 years so I don't think it is disappearing soon.

I'm another thinking the spelling of Sydney makes me think it is a girls' name. I think there was an actress with it.

I think Harrison is the best IMHO.

I had thought in my younger days, that a DS would be William or Thomas and a DD would be Charlotte or Seren.
Nothing seemed appropriate when DC was actually here, and I did have a bit of a wobble, but none of those names would have suited.

I've always worked on the basis that if a name works for a baby, a stroppy teenager and a high court judge then it's a good name.