Help I don't like any boy names

[SometimesIcantsleep]

Just found out today I'm having another boy, I'm gutted not to be using my girl name as I was convinced this was going to be a girl. I have both a girl and boy already, and really struggled last time, I ended up just letting my partner choose his name because I didn't like any of the thousands of names I looked at. I didn't love the name he chose, but it has grown on me and it suits our little boy and everyone loves it.

I don't like anything that comes up on the naming websites or google searches; looking for uncommon/unusual but not weird/made up names

What was the girl’s name you liked?
And is there any specific vibe or association you’d like a boy name to have?

I sympathise OP. I have got two boys and I let
my husband choose both their names because I genuinely didn’t have any strong feelings for any boy’s names. I would have said no to my DH’s suggestions if I really didn’t like them, but I went with them and thankfully they both suited the boys and I love them now.

I think for a lot of people it can be really hard to name boys 😬

I'm willing to look at anything and everything 🤣 the girls name would be really outing and we've not told anyone I'm pregnant, but it's not something that can be altered to make a boys name or anything, it was French

Francis (Frankie for short) it means French man!

Even if I have a name I could get on board with I then don't like the way it would be shortened or the nick names. It also has to go with a difficult last name which rules out quite a lot of things too, I managed to hold it together while in the scan but I cried when I got home, not because I don't want a boy just because I found it so hard last time 😩

Uncommon but not made up… Jago, Ivo, Orson, Cyrus, Dashiel, Darius?

Tobias
Ivan
Ivor
Evan
Elias
Cruz
Isiah
Micah

I think the same thing will happen as last time;

you may not love the name you choose to start with, but soon you will think it's just right.

Cyprian, Jasper, Laurent?

I will give you a list of boys that are in my family list to see if any inspire you:

Patrick
Lucas
Peter
Aaron
Matthew
Nicholas
Lewis
Christopher
Jamie
Ethan
Noah

So nothing too “out there” and nothing “made up”.

Some are quite common/popular but I would always opt for a sensible/practical name if there aren’t any names that you feel particularly strongly about.

Always best to play it safe in these situations.

Matthias
Robert
Richard
Philip
William
Simeon
Jonathan (Jonty)
Christian
James
Joseph
Adam
Leo
Hugo
Josiah
Inigo
Pierre

I also used to look at tv and film credits for inspiration.

Adam
Richard
Guy
Simeon
Blair
Toby
Leo
Callum
Scott
Jason
Howard
Jeremy

I agree, and maybe go for a classic rather than out-there. Let it sit with you for a bit rather than feeling you need to definitively decide now.

What's your other boy's name?

Can you give us a nudge towards the genre @SometimesIcantsleep.

Rex
Spike
Woody
Tobias
Amos
Seth
Oakley
Jasper
Casper
Cassian
Magnus
Quentin
Lachlan
Quinlan

Well, its a bit tricky but starting with what you have said you liked for a girl (French and you prefer girl names) have you considered something unisex and French like Camille?
Or softer-sounding male names, which many French names are: Maxence, Aurelian, Gabriel, Jean, Antoine.

Or is that going off on the wrong track? Do you like very boyish, even surname type names for boys? Or traditional Anglo-Saxon?

You can't go wrong with James.

Peak MN!😂

Are there any unisex names you like:
Alex
Robin
Sasha
Charlie
Jules
Quinn
Darcy
Leo
Jude
Sam
Jamie

Don't stress yourself out about it, you managed to like the name your partner chose last time maybe he will just have to do it again. Perhaps ask him to give you a list of 3 and you choose one so you've had some say .

Enjoy your pregnancy, your little boy will be here before you know it.

OP have you seen Julia Donaldson's "Book of Names"? Some nice inspiration in there.

I will have a look, I might actually go to the library and look at the books there as they tend to be older, nothing I've seen so far on this thread is sticking out as something I'd consider, my little boys name has been mentioned. I honestly don't have a vibe or a theme in mind, I'm not a fan of traditional names at all, when we have told the family i will update with my kids names 🙂 I've genuinely looked through thousands probably, and I just don't like any boys name, with my daughter before we knew she was a girl we didn't even look at boys names, her name came from a book.

I honestly don't have a type or a theme I just feel like I'll see it and it'll be right but that's not happened yet, I just don't like any boys names, I think they suit other people's kids and are good choices for them and they are lovely for choice for their parents because I see how that name is so them (if that makes sense) but when I think of that was my boy - nope I hate them all, it's really hard not to offend others choices in what I feel, but I have looked at so many and I just don't get that feeling with anything so far, and it's now the 4th (one horrendous misscarriage) that I've been looking as I feel like you start thinking about names quite early on, I suppose I've still got 4 months 😂

Kester

Reuben

Zebulon

Oswald

Gilbert

Sargent

Micah

Malachy

Ezra

I have the same issue - I just can't find a fondness for any boys names like I can with girls names. Fortunately I had a girl, otherwise she would have renamed nameless for some time.

Have you tried downloading name data for England and Wales from the ONS website? It comes in the form of a spreadsheet and tab 6 shows every name used in that year for at least 3 or more babies born. You could start at the bottom to see the most uncommon names used and scroll up.