Mission Impossible- find me a boy's name conforming to (my) strict criteria...

[CaptainNancy]

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find a name (or names) for my son (due January, plenty of time yet). This is no ordinary namequest- there are strict criteria to adhere to...

• no Top 50 names( I do not wish my child to be known as xxxx G. throughout his schooldays, I would prefer he was the only one in the school with his name)

• cannot begin with 'G' or 'J' (surname issues) or 'R' (DH pronunciation issues)

• no biblical names (I am a fervent atheist, DH is buddhist)

• Unusual, but not wacky

We are m/c academic types, I am not an earth mother, nor a lentil-weaver (sadly); we are also quite removed from popular culture. I am therefore never likely to name my child 'Celestin' or 'Zaphod'...

...or Guybrush.

Or Neo.

This thread will self destruct in 30 days (judging by the number of name threads at present),
TIA

isnt not is... not that it makes any difference.

Patrick
Nicholas
Peter

LOVE Christopher-known-as-Kit whoever suggested that!

ratbunny -YES! though in my defence MI is about 20 years old now!

Lio I love, love, LOVE Kester.... but DH vetoed it years ago

JeanGenie Haymo? what origin is that?

So many great suggestions here though- thank you all!

yey - guybrush threepwood!

how about Bobbin Threadbare (did anyone play that dreadful game Loom?) DS was called Bobbin from conception to about 4 months.

How about Wulfric? I think it sounds cool. Taliesin?

Well, I know two guys called Haymo (both GORGEOUS btw!) and they're irish. Both are actually academics and come from that sort of background - so I don't know if it's a little known name from way back when in Ireland. It's an odd name - but you know when you meet people with an unusual name and you like them - you sort of end up liking the name too!

CaptainNancy: I might be going off your dh

I'm guessing he won't like Cosmo, then? Jago? I like all the 'o' names:

Milo
Ludo
Otto (which dh vetoed because of the Bismarck)

Alexander
Xaxier

Oops - meant Xavier

love the monkey island ref! so nice to know other people have experienced it. There is a 'Guy' at a group I go to, and it is imposiibly hard not to call him guybrush....

still no help on the names there, sorry

Joakim, Albin, Arvid, Tim, Björn, Tobias, Patrick, Bob

what is your shortlist like now????

Agamemnon
Edward
Titus

Trajan
Juvens

Allardyce?

(ok not serious)

Titus is fabulous though!
There was a Polish character called Titus in that Juliet Stevenson film - 'Truly, Madly, Deeply' wasn't there? Maybe not the best character to name a baby after though on second thoughts - think he was a plumber??!!! (nothing against plumbers obviously).

Kit is a fab name too (one of my girls has a name that we shorten to Kit) so love it (but also know a little boy called Kit and he is gorgeous).

Titus is very Biblical!

and think of the jokes with his name!

Nice sounding name though.

is it Biblical? oops, sorry bout that, I am a bit vague, which bit? its a Roman Emperor

Jovian
Gregory

ok have googled, is very very Biblical Not a Bible character tho, just a book!

Hector, Marcus, Finton, Barnaby, Barnabus,

BTW googled the names to avoid for you - here they are:

1. Jack
2. Thomas
3. James
4. Joshua
5. Daniel
6. Harry
7. Samuel
8. Joseph
9. Matthew

10. Callum 11. Luke 12. William 13. Lewis 14. Oliver 15. Ryan 16. Benjamin 17. George 18. Liam 19. Jordan 20. Adam 21. Alexander 22. Jake 23. Connor 24. Cameron 25. Nathan 26. Kieran 27. Mohammed 28. Jamie 29. Jacob 30. Michael 31. Ben 32. Ethan 33. Charlie 34. Bradley 35. Brandon 36. Aaron 37. Max 38. Dylan 39. Kyle 40. Reece 41. Robert 42. Christopher 43. David 44. Edward 45. Charles 46. Owen 47. Louis 48. Alex 49. Joe 50. Rhys

Luca?

dorian
tristan

dalerex ... watchin too much bbchesterjamiewillgood luck we are struggling with boys names too

Declan