Help with boy names?

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Struggling with a boy name! Please can anyone suggest anything similar to these, or any nice combos of first/middles? Surname is one syllable.

Leonardo
August
Ruben
Orson
Alistair
Theseus
Cassian
Ewan
Caleb
Artemis
Lucas
Lucian

August Lucian
Lucas Theseus
Alistair Ewan
Orson Leonardo
Cassian Caleb

I think you need to use three syllable name either in middle or as first, because two two syllable names might sound choppy with one syllable surname

other ideas
August Elias
Orson Frederick
Alistair Toby
Theseus Liam
Artemis Bruno
Lucas Gregory
Lucian Victor

@OP If you like names from other cultures - and why not - it's probably a good idea to get them right:
Eg Alasdair for Scottish Gaelic. NB It's not something misty and "Celtic", just international for the past 2000 years and more ( and = ancient Macedonian/by conquest Greek) Alexander spelled in Gaelic. A very nice name, regardless.

Artemis = female. So much so that she was the pretty implacable huntress of all kinds of male people. https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Artemis.html

Artemus is the rare but more definitely male version of the name.

Great list! My personal favorite is Cassian. :)

some combos you may like:

Cassian Taylor
Ewan Xavier
Caleb Gideon
Lucas Emmett
Stefan August

other ideas:

Evander Ewan
Roman August
Tristan Asa
Bellamy Rhys
Clark Theseus
Dimitri Lucas
Fitz Julian
Nathaniel Rhodes
Wells Alexander
Sander William

I like Cassian and Reuben

How about

Quentin
Magnus
Raphael

Blame Artemis Fowl.

@nameXname I'm well aware of both of those associations, thanks for the condescending response. I can spell my child's name how I like, it does not have to be deemed to be historically suitable. Language changes and so do names.

Thanks for the suggestions @MistyF @KayEmAy @Geranyums some nice combos there and I do like Magnus!

You're wrong, tho
Artemis is traditionally unisex name in English speaking worlds
this fictional boy is Artemis, but it been long been used as male name in English speaking world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_Fowl
Alastair - it's acceptable variation of Alasdair.

The original male versions are Artemios (Gk) Artemius/Artemus (Latin) meaning devotee of Artemis the goddess. You get other versions like Artemio in Italy and Artem in Russia via Artemy.

There are some Greek men called Artemis - but the Greek language allows for a masculine and feminine version - which is lost in the English translation.

Personally I wouldn’t call a boy Artemis as the spelling has neither the original indication of male devotee of the Artemis nor the masculine form used in Greece.

I like Leonardo and Theseus.

Really like Alistair.

Patrick James

Yeah, just like Andrea means male strength, but in most of world, it's feminine name.
Names change gender all the time between cultures, especially in English, which doesn't have gendered words and has more gender neutral names than other languages.

I love Alasdair!
Ruben and Caleb would be my runners up from your list, though know lots of baby Reubens.

I also see Artemis as a girls name, and only know girls with this name - but I do really like it for a girl!

My 2 yo is called Cassian. We call him Cass. I absolutely love it but then all my children have slightly unusual names

Some other possible ideas for you:

Cassius
Lucius
Marcus
Matthias
Ignatius
Mateus
Tobias

Cassian August or leonardo August 🥰

casper
leopold
jasper
austin
ludo
griffin
torin
caspian
silas
dorian
dylan
rowan

That hasn’t happened with Artemis though.

Half the world Andrea is male the other half it’s female.

In the vast majority of the world, Artemis is a female goddess. The number of men called it is minute, the majority are Greek and that has a masculine version.

Horatio
Hugo
Enzo
Geno
Raphael
Cornelius
Felix
Theo
Aloysuis
Ignatius

Alistair, Ewan and Leonard are my faves.

Alistair August
Alistair Ewan
Ewan Alexander
Leonard George

Angus Archibald
Alan Leopold