FAO Hatrick, VS and Sweet Kitty

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this is getting ridilious now, ffs, have just been in borders and bought 2 baby names books

thank goodness I have 8 more shifts at work so I'll have time to work read them

well that knackers

Dylan - welsh
Duncan - scottish AND a surname

all of my others [meep]

what about

Caleb
Saul
Sonny
Rowan
Will
Rufus
Joshua
Jacob
Jonah
Noah
Jack
Curtis

stanley?
george
archie
herbert - herbie/herb?
hugo - I LOVE hugo!!!
hugh
jonathon - nn jonty?
jordie

Caleb - isn't that forrin
Saul - begins with S and ergo sounds odd with surname
Sonny - S
Rowan - Prefer for a girl
Will - have about 6 in family/close friends already
Rufus - dog
Joshua - too common
Jacob - love but one in family already
Jonah - as good as rhymes with surname!
Noah - already slagged it as too common on one thread tonight!
Jack - old man
Curtis - I like. Dh just frowned and said no, and referred me to Steigers .

Am not pointing out that Dylan and Duncan are foreign, or the list will be empty .

Duncan has class

I like Caleb and Sonny. Also Cameron. S's and Cs.

Duncan, despite being the name of my first boyfriend, is a terrible name.

stanley? - see earlier thread on this name
george - love Georgie for girl, but don't like George for boy
archie - know one. Don't think dh likes
herbert - herbie/herb? - my grandad = selfish pig
hugo - I LOVE hugo!!! - I love it too, but have to avoid names with emphasis on 'O' sound. (You'll soon work out our surname!)
hugh - grant
jonathon - nn jonty? - me yes. dh no
jordie - you're avin a larffff

ok bloody hell, your house sounds as bad as ours for names. ok last shot and them I'll off for the night and will think about it some more tomorrow

Christopher - Kit
Ronan/Roman/Roan
Fergus
Phillip - nn pip (for baby obviously)
Corin/Coran
Dashiell - nn Dash (tis fab!!)
Max
Conrad
Daniel
Connor
Bailey
Aaron
Albert - nn bertie
Edward - nn Ted/Teddy/Ned
Theodore - Theo
Leo
Leon
Kerr
Finlay - nn Fin
Fraser
Sean
Tristan
Niall
Tom
Guy
Giles
Alex
Zander/Xander
Reuben
Mitch

am just throwing everything in the pot so I can work out what kind of things you like!
you already know the names I like for a boy so there is no point in me suggesting those

Joseph - an underused classic imo

Joseph Elliot is nice

CSWS, please spell Jonathan right if you do use it

Caleb is biblical not foreign

hunker [meep] tis late and am tired - spologies for terrible grammar/spelling/typos etc!

Hugh
Hector
William
Edward
Theodore
Alfred
Duncan
Simeon
Lawrence

DD, twas CSWS, not you

couldn't go to bed without suggesting

Otis
Otto
Eugene - nn Gene
Lennon
Lennox
Odin
Luke
Matthew
Dean

Elvis

night all!!

Dean !!!!!

Oliver
Oscar
Bradley

right enough, I really am switching off now

REALLY!?!!?!?!? you're exclaiming at Dean and NOT Elvis!?!?!?!?

right lady, homework for tonight, pick some you 'like' even if you can't use them for some reason or another and I'll have a look at them tomorrow

seriously thought, night

Christopher - Kit - blimey - dh says Christopher ok but not keen on Kit. I'm the other way round! We both like Christian, but don't want it shortened to Chris, and friend just used.
Ronan/Roman/Roan - dh making a zero sign at me
Fergus - I like, dh scores 4 out of 10
Phillip - nn pip (for baby obviously) - dd is Philippa, so a definite no!
Corin/Coran - 1 out of 10
Dashiell - nn Dash (tis fab!!grin) - zero
Max - one of best friends has one
Conrad - 5 or 6 out of 10 from dh. It was on our list if dd had been a boy, so he's fickle!
Daniel - like but too popular
Connor - Irish 2/10
Bailey - surname minus 27 from dh
Aaron - 6/10 from dh. Less from me, although used to really like.
Albert - nn bertie - Bert too much my grandad
Edward - nn Ted/Teddy/Ned - too ordinary
Theodore - Theo - nothing beginning with T, as both mine and dh's names have this initial already.
Leo - friend has one
Leon - friend has one
Kerr - is this actually a name? Dh scores it minus 9,450
Finlay - nn Fin - 1/10
Fraser - minus 1 from dh. I like it.
Sean - zero
Tristan - that's just gay (dh's words)
Niall - Dh can't spell (is a bit dyslexic)
Tom - friend has, too ordinary, not good with surname
Guy - 3/10
Giles - 1/10
Alex - friend has. 1/10 from dh
Zander/Xander - dh is asking me to clarify his maximum minus score so far, so that he can give this less!
Reuben - is on our list, but dh says too Jewish as our surname is apparently Jewish
Mitch - I put on a list once, dh laughed it off.

Am off to bed now too - this is my latest night in ages!

I copied and pasted DD's 'jonathon', so ner ner ner ner ner to you hunker .

Lawrence is on our list BM, but we realised last week that I spell it that way, and dh spells it Laurence.

fwiw ds is 16 in a minute and has a friend lawrence who NEVER gets a pet name

everyone calls him lawrence which i think is great

he is extremely tall and handsome

Otis - nope - dh says it's a dog in Garfield
Otto - I like this but dh says it's German. 'O' sound probably too prominent.
Eugene - nn Gene - nah - geeksville for me.
Lennon - surname, dh hates John
Lennox - we're not black or boxers
Odin - that's just stupid (dh's words)
Luke - we like, but not enough. dh had falling out with good long term friend of that name, and it puts him off it.
Matthew - too ordinary
Dean - nah - just doesn't do it for us
Elvis - dh works in Memphis quite a bit at the moment, so reckons you're joking!

So on our list of names we both like we have

Elliot
Dominic
Lawrence/Laurence
Toby but the 'O' sound rules it out
Barnaby
Dylan (but too popular now I've rechecked the list)
Duncan
Jacob (but too popular and one in family already)
Gabriel, although it doesn't feel quite right for us
Christian (but don't want shortened and friend now has)
Julian
Isaiah (but dh will never spell it right)
Jeremy (but I like more than dh, and I actually slightly prefer Jeremiah)
Benedict (but don't want inevitable shortening)
Abraham
Reuben

But the last 2 plus Isaiah have the Jewish problem, which dh will take some work to get over.

Patrick was a strong contender last time as a middle name with Elliot first, but dh has gone off it since.

We would say nothing from the current top 100 names, but both Dominic and Elliot are just within that, so I guess we'd have to say nothing from top 50 as an absolute cut off.

We've been through the top 1000 names from last year, and these are the only ones we agree on. There are plenty of others that I like (Zachary Elliot being the combination I would be very happy to use), but dh is hard to please.

You haven't answered Rufus CSWS.
(Loves it, but then I have an Alexander (Alex/Lex/Xander) so your DH obviously has really bad taste)

I never imagined I meet someone with more issues for picking a name than me but hands down CSWS - you win