Ashton or Carter for Boy? Or alternative similar suggestions please

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Me and DH are having trouble naming our son - I liked Ashton he doesn’t, he likes Carter but I’m not sold on it.

Therefore (frustratingly!), we may go back to the drawing board, I’m asking for help - what do you think of these names?

And also, does anyone have any other suggestions of one or two syllable names?

Thanks!

Both are surnames, so maybe something like Hudson, Hunter, Casey, Dexter, Baxter, Cooper, Chester, Lincoln, Asher?

I don't particularly like that style of name.

Ambrose
Arthur/Arty
Acer
Axel
Alistair
Apollo
Arnold

Carey
Carrick
Casey
Cameron
Caleb
Cassius

@Emanwenymwe considered Asher but DH doesn’t like it either. I’m not keen on your other suggestions but thank you!

@TomatoSandwichesI quite like Cameron, thank you

I prefer Ashton of the 2 but neither totally my style. Some good suggestions above. How about also: Austin, Blake, Jackson, Colton, Mason, Brody, Riley, Parker

I like both of those choices, I also rather like Austen

I just googled Cameron and don’t like that it means ‘crooked nose’ in Gaelic 😔

any names you like but couldn’t use? Any girls names you liked just so I can get the gist of your name taste?

Dexter
Cody
Max
Beau
Huxley
Sebastian
Freddie
Arlo
Louis
Elliott
Xander
George
Jax
Henry
Wilfred
Oscar
Ralph
Dominic
Alexander
Zackery
Felix
Noah
Toby
Thomas
Elijah
Ryder
Vincent
Theo
Raphael
Robin

Austin is better than Austen. Every Cameron I know is Cam, and it is 3 syllables not the 1 or 2 OP asked for.

That will never be an issue. I know several Cameron's and that has never come up.

What about Callum (means dove), Conner (lover of hounds) instead?

Huxley
Mason
Cole
Eddison
Willoughby
Caractacus
Ashley
Joel

Me too.

I like Ashton best and Ash is a great nn.

Dawson
Corey
Maddox
Cyrus
Harris
Spencer
Cole
Lewis
Blake
Ethan
Liam
Dylan
Roman
Milo
Silas
Rio
Beckett
Leon
Evan
Hayden
Flynn

If you like those names you will be into cowboy style names from the American west.

Silas
Tate
Hank
Wyatt
Rex
Emmett
Seth
Jesse
Sonny
Buddy
Otis
Heath
Harris
Levi
Emile
Shiloh
Wilder
Jude
Amos
Abel

what about

callum
connor
austin
quentin
miles

Neither, they’re both chavvy boyband names.

What happened to nice names like Benjamin, Christopher or David? I hate this trend of yoonique American surnames, they’re awful.

At a push names like Jesse, Roman or Felix are ok, but all these surname names like Harrison and Greyson are going to date horribly.

in theory I have no skin in the game, but I’m an 80s child with an awful fashionable 80s dated name that was considered cool, so I feel irrationally annoyed by name posts that mean the children are going to be eventually left cringing.

It seems you like surname as names what about..

ones I like but would not use as it’s not my style would be..

Archer
Grayson
Preston
Spencer

@Helleboreri do hear what you mean completely which is why we both have reservations

what do you think about Cameron?

Cameron is a decent Scottish boys name

I probably prefer Carter but not a fan of either personally. Other suggestions

spencer
parker
ellis
fletcher
asher
archer
austin
carson
Huxley
oakley
leyton
casper

Fraser
Hunter
Orion

I actually really like Wilder, mentioned above.

I like Carter. Takes me back to ER Dr John Carter

Cameron is my favourite out of your choices. The other two sound American. Are you in the UK?