Help! Save a poor boy from being called Jocelyn...

[EffiePerine]

DC2 not due for ages, but DH and I can't find ANY boy's name we can agree on. Girls' names not a problem (we had the opposite dilemma with DS).

DH's sole contribution is Jocelyn . Or Evelyn (though I think he may be joking on that one). Or Offa (he is definitely taking the piss there).

We had thought of James, but common shortening + surname is frankly comic. DH has vetoed John, Michael, Edward and we've used William and Joseph already. Help!

Friend's hb likes Hereward and Cadwalader

I said 'What, no Abelard or Aloysius?' and they've now made the list too.

Reggie

Simon. I think Simon is a nice, and underused, name.

Jacob
Jude
Louis
Matthew
Benjamin

Not Jocelyn.

Zachary
Gus

I love Robert and Patrick. They are both classic but I don't know a single boy of either of these names (know adults).

Arthur is lovely imo (didn't get it past my dh for ds2).

or Frederick?

I am liking Patrick a LOT

My suggestions of early church names (Ambrose, Jerome) did not go down well (sigh)

Gustave in the running for a middle name but don't think we can get away with it for a first name.

Richard
Adam
Edmund (Ned)

Edmund. Hmmm. I think I like it

Patrick Ambrose sounds good.

Patrick James

Patrick Lawrence

Ds is Patrick John Garnet for complex family reasons.

Patrick John is a lovely combination . I have emailed DH re: Patrick and awaiting response...

(at work today, hence MN in lunchbreak rather than being out in the sunshine - boo)

Our Patrick's cousins call him PJ, and we quite often call him Patrick John - it goes together really well, I think. Glad you like it - do hope your dp agrees!

I notice nobody is queuing up to have Garnet!

DH doesn't like Patrick. BOO

Think we'l have to leave this one and revisit later on: have been making wild suggestions such as Xerxes so could do with a lie-down

A garnet is a cheap ruby isn't it? Could be a silly combo that, Ruby and Garnet Cheeseman.

Patrick is a great name. I also like Peter and Robert.