Feminine Sounding Boys Names

[nameobsessed]

I am a ‘frilly’ name person, I mostly like three syllable names and two middle names to match mine and DH’s. I have such an easier time with girls names, my girls list is close to a hundred names I would use but it’s so hard to find boys names I even like.

Lots of people on here seem to hate the boys names I like, calling them ‘wet’ or ‘feminine’ (as an insult?!) and assuming they’re going to get bullied- in my experience that isn’t true but is besides the point. If anyone has any names they like (or hate!) for boys that fit that criteria I would really appreciate hearing them.

Some examples of boys names I like:

Constantine
Gabriel
Augustine
Christian
Leander
Alistair
Ambrose
Dorian
Isidore

Marmaduke is great. You don't get many Marmadukes these days. Bring it back!

Florian was our choice if we were to have a boy!

Just how it looks - fer-dee-a or fer-dya- with emphasis on first syllable. I love it too.

Some of the Greek/ /Roman/ other male deity names are both masculine and attractive. Eg Odin, Aquilo , Ares, Dion. Have a google.

Some of the male Scottish names have a softer sound - Glen, Murray, Sandy etc.

I’m going to need to have a lot of babies to use up all these names! Absolutely adore Montgomery, it is taken in our family but it’s one of my absolute favourites.

Quincy
Allardyce
Crispin
Matteo

Artemis
Artie
Bellamy
Casper
Blake
Austin
Oakley
Clement
Fergus
Noah
Rue
Frankie
Pip
Eden

Don’t think I’ve seen

Lorne

on the thread yet?

It’s apparently unisex. Scottish. Was introduced to a male bearer of the name sometime in the mid-1980s on a street in Cambridge, well after midnight, outside a kebab shop. He was utterly charming and I’ve loved the name ever since, but have never met another.

Kelly, Kerry, Kim

Adonis
Alexander
Alistair
Anton
Apollo
Atticus
Aurelian/us
Balthazar
Bastien
Benjamin
Bartholomew
Caspian
Darius
Dashiell
Emerson
Emilian
Ezekiel
Fabian
Florien
Fraser
Gabriel
Idris
Inigo
Isaac
Jonathan
Julius
Levi
Lucien
Miles
Nathanial
Nicholas/Nico
Orlando
Ossian
Orion
Otis
Rafael
Reuben
Sebastian
Solomon
StJohn
Theodore
Tobias
Tristan
Valentino
Xavier
Zachary

Clarence

I LOVE Lysander!

DB and SIL let me choose my nephew's middle name and I suggested that...babies being the last thing on my mind at the time. Could have kicked myself when I went on to have two boys later 🤣

Have probably been mentioned up thread but:

Valentino
Theodore
Laurent
Roderigo
Hilary (US only I think)
Maximillian
Maximus
Vassili
Sebastian
Jasper
Etienne
Bartholomew
Cecil
Beaufort (but please don't 🤣)

Julian
Caspian
lucien
tristan
swbastian

Wesley
Aubrey
Percy
Barnaby
Julian
Rafferty

Also someone above mentioned about being a target for bullying. I think bullying for names will be a thing of the past soon - all the babies and toddlers I know have different names, It will just become normal. One of my relatives who’s a teacher said when they were at school children wearing glasses were bullied, but now that never happens.

Julian

Etienne is the French version of Stephen .. which is abit disappointing.

when you said feminine names I think of more weaker sounding things like Timothy , Tristan .