Can't decide name and it's driving me mad

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Hi all :) I've named changed because this is so outing.

So I'm due my second boy next year, we already have Oscar. Our surname is Cunningham. DH loves Stanley but I'm just not sure. DS has told my mum and DH's mum that the baby is called Stanley (our mistake for talking about names in front of him!🤦‍♀️) and the reactions weren't great. I think that's putting me off the name too which I know it shouldn't but I can't help it. What do you all think of Stanley?

Any suggestions for names? We also need a middle name😫

Names that we liked but don't anymore are:

Jack
Alfie
Harry
Ernie
Louis
Charlie
Jasper
Felix

There's an endless list of names that DH doesn't like but I'd be here all night🤦‍♀️

I just don't think we're ever going to have a name that I love which is such a shame because I love Oscar's name so much🙁

Stanley is terrible, sorry. What is wrong with some of the names you now don’t like? Felix and Jasper are lovely.

Joseph

I don't see the attraction of Stanley.

What about Sebastian? Seb is kind of cool, like Olly, and it goes with your surname.

I really like Stanley. It's not my usual style, but I like it. It's strong and not cutesy. Stan is great, very cool I think.

Other than Ernie I like all the names in the list of ones you no longer like.
Don’t like Stanley.

Lucas
Oliver
Max
George
Harrison
Henry
Jacob

Hopefully helpful suggestions!

Felix and Jasper are gorgeous names ❤️

I think Oscar and Jasper sound like brothers

I don't like Stanley. Other suggestions;
Wilfred
Ralph
Frankie
Conrad
Jonah

But Stanley is nice with your surname. It's a good, solid name. Ignore your parents.

Tbh I still like the other names we had and I like a lot of these suggestions but DH is the issue. He loves Stanley and can't see past that being his name.

Luke
Wilkie
Tristan
Ethan
Frankie
Jago

Oscar and Jasper go so well together! What about Isaac?

Stanley is badd, don't do it.

Noah?
Ryan - my son's name haha)
I also love Jasper and think Jacob and Max would also work.

Oscar is such a lovely name by the way

Oh god no to Stanley! It really does not go with Oscar.

If Cunningham is your DH’s surname then he has to compromise, sorry.

I think Jasper is too similar to Oscar.

Felix Cunningham
Leo Cunningham
Theo Cunningham
Jago Cunningham

Those are the same vibe and go so well with the surname.

Stanley Cunningham is just too much, it sounds like a footballer from the 1940s in long flannel shorts 😳

Well that's the image in my head now🤣🤣🤣I'll tell DH, maybe it'll put him off it!

Thanks for all the suggestions, they are very helpful😊

I like Stanley
I don't know any Oscars with brothers.

Oscar makes me think of Oscar Wilde. I'll Google names of that era and come back.

I think Stanley is great! Jasper and Ernie are also good.

My Oscar was nearly called Archie - which I now hate so glad I used the excuse of birth to overrule DH! I don't like the name Stanley personally. What about Rupert or Thomas?

Oscar wasn't in the top 200 in 1850. But below is an old MNet thread .thread www.mumsnet.com/talk/baby_names/2288536-Sibling-names-that-sound-nice-with-Oscar

I like Stanley! I also like Sidney and Ernest. They’re ’old man’ but still very nice names.

From my childhoodFlat Stanley

Sidney
Ted ( Edward )
Stanley is lovely btw

Stanley and Oscar don't really go. Stanley is very old fashioned. It's hard when one is set on a name. Could you compromise and go with Stanley as a middle name? Other names you could go consider

Otis
Jasper
Toby
Max
Ellis
Shay
Beau
Zac

Good luck x