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Unusual (but not too wacky) boys names wanted.

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MrsJoeMcIntyre · 21/01/2009 15:11

My cousin is having her second boy in June, and is trying to come up with a name. She is veto-ing everything I come up with.

Any gems?

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troutpout · 21/01/2009 15:57

Elijah
Josiah

troutpout · 21/01/2009 15:57

Elijah
Josiah

troutpout · 21/01/2009 15:57

Elijah
Josiah

ScattyStudent · 21/01/2009 15:58

Talon is my cats name lmao (but spelled differently)

I probably wont help I wanted to call my son Random, but sanity prevailed

Jayden
Jacob (is that unusual?)
Gabriel
Reuben (I love that)

MrsJoeMcIntyre · 21/01/2009 15:58

Ooh, Elijah is a good one.

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belgo · 21/01/2009 15:59

Bruno

NorktasticNinja · 21/01/2009 16:00

MrsJoeMcIntyre - don't know if you thought I was was being harsh, but I'd have said the same regardless

BexieID · 21/01/2009 16:01

Jenson

I like Rueben too, although my fav boys name atm is actually George.

MrsJoeMcIntyre · 21/01/2009 16:02

Jenson, I also like a lot.

Thanks ladies, I will email your suggestions to her, and I promise you all, she did ask me!

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BexieID · 21/01/2009 16:07

We would have called Thomas, Jenson, but DPs surname is Henson.

GossipMonger · 21/01/2009 16:10

MrsJM - who were you before? give us a clue!

Zac
Owen
Kyle
Logan
Levi
Malachi
Jerry
Lionel
Norbert
Alastair
Benedict
Carl
David
Edwin
Frankie
Archie
Alfie
Stanley
Vernon
William

a small selection of names from my school

Fimbo · 21/01/2009 16:10

Jenson Henson LOL cool in an odd way.

Campbell (silent p)
Struan
Archimedes
Lucien
Clement
Odin
Fraser
Linus

Themasterandmargaritas · 21/01/2009 16:11

Pink you need a Barnaby. Everyone needs a Barnaby.

Themasterandmargaritas · 21/01/2009 16:13

Gabriel
Joel
Sholto
Sandy
Findlay

MrsJoeMcIntyre · 21/01/2009 16:13

TMAM - are you outing me????

I've emailed her, Theo is in the lead.

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NorktasticNinja · 21/01/2009 16:27

Lovely name, Theo, but hardly unusual...

MrsJoeMcIntyre · 21/01/2009 16:28

I'm not sure how unusual she means when she says unusual, but I am still emailing all your suggestions to her.

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SoMuchToBits · 21/01/2009 16:36

Ozias
Ezra
Wallace
Horace
Elbridge

FairLadyRantALot · 21/01/2009 16:37

My boys have unusual names...not sure if you would consider them whacky, lol
they are called
Sven, Yannic and Flynn

MrsJoeMcIntyre · 21/01/2009 16:38

She lives in the Isle of Man, I'm not sure they're ready for some of these suggestions!

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VersdeSociete · 21/01/2009 16:39

"Susie, jesus, bogart, sam, leslie, jill and jeff
Rita, winny, andy, fran and jet
Boris, bono, lucy, ethel, bunny, reg and tom
Thats a lot of names to try not to forget

Carrie, marlon, mo and steve, la rue and jerry lee
Eggplant, rufus, dummy, star and the glob
Id need a damn computer to keep track of all these names
I hope this baby thing dont go too far"
From Lou Reed's Beginning of a Great Adventure. anything useful there? Obviously some are girls' names..

VersdeSociete · 21/01/2009 16:40

The lack of punctuation is from the lyrics website, ...

NorktasticNinja · 21/01/2009 16:40

Cassius I love, it was top of our list before I found out it meant empty / vain

Yannick is DPs name, am bias about that one...

bossykate · 21/01/2009 16:41

kevin, leslie, alan, derek - so unusual! you can bet there won't be tons of those in each class! or did your sister actually mean fashionable?

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