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

[ratbunny]

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

[seeker]

Patrick
Nicholas
Peter

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

[CaptainNancy]

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!

[pooter]

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?

[jeanjeannie]

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!

[Lio]

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)

[prettybird]

Alexander
Xaxier

[prettybird]

Oops - meant Xavier

[ratbunny]

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

[jellygirl]

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

[Collision]

what is your shortlist like now????

[TwoBigNorks]

Agamemnon
Edward
Titus

[TwoBigNorks]

Trajan
Juvens

[frazzledoldbag34]

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).

[Collision]

Titus is very Biblical!

and think of the jokes with his name!

Nice sounding name though.

[TwoBigNorks]

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

[TwoBigNorks]

Jovian
Gregory

[TwoBigNorks]

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

[Quattrocento]

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

[norkmaiden]

Luca?

[blueshoes]

dorian
tristan

[mustsleep]

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

[TwoBigNorks]

Declan