Can you help me find a traditional name that no one has used yet????

[Jackaroo]

We are fairly late having our latest DS, and everyone else we know has already had their second, if not third. They have "taken" most of the popular boys names.

I never imagined having more than one son (no idea why) and so have never had more than the one name I was really attached to. So, we've used that for DS1.

I just want a strong traditional name, that has similar impact to first DS, and I want to really like it. As per LittleMissWorryHead's posting, I'm really worried that it will be such a compromise that it will end up being a problem forever...

So the following are off our joint list but sort of the right lines
Dan/iel
Nic/olas
Jo/seph
Ben/
Will/

To give you an idea, a friend has just called their son Felix. I don't think i would have chosen it, but it's a traditional name but not common iyswim......

I'm very worry that at the moment our list has two names on it, and neither of us is super keen on either of them:

Leo
Henry

Am I making any sense at all, is this just too boring for anyone else to bother with??!!

All idea gratefully received......

J

Samuel
Harry

Charles
Edward
Edmund
Edwin
Gabriel
Michael
Jasper
Peter
Miles
Angus
Arthur

There aren't many Nicholases about these days - that's nice.
Timothy?
I like Edwin and Edmund as well

Christopher

James?
Was just thinking there hasn't been a James in nursery for 3 years.

Christopher
Kit for short

we are awash with james/jamies round here

Seth

Er, I see a problem here, it looks as if I said they were from our list, when I said "off our list" when what I meant was that they were "off the list" ie, we can't use them!

So, list of unusables is now
Dan/iel
Nic/olas
Jo/seph
Ben/
Will/
Samuel
Harry
Edward
Edmund
Edwin
Gabriel
Michael
Jasper
Peter
Miles
Angus
Arthur
Timothy
Christopher

Whilst we're here, does anyone have a strong objection to those on our (new) possibles list?

Leo
Henry
Charles

James and Seth both vetoed by DH... but thanks for trying!

leo, henry OK prefer Charlie

James
Henry
Alexander
Alastair
Toby
Nathaniel
Oliver
Henry
Thomas / Tom
Matthew
Dominic
Max

Would be interested in knowing what people think of Toby and Alexander as they are on my shortlist too. I have a Samuel already and DS2 is on the way. I also love Miles /Milo.

I know a Leo and think it is a lovely name
how about Archie
Kenny
Leon
Noah
Terence
Ted
all children that I know

leo is nice
i prefer Leon though

Anthony
Alastair
Russell
Christian
Johnathon
Nicholas
Peter

I am very excited - I think by the time I come back in the morning we will have an answer (no pressure MNers..).

SammyMummy - i'm not keen on Milo, but it's definitely a complete no-no here in Oz, as Milo is a drink like Ovaltine or Bournvita. ALthough if i could get him sponsored by the milo company til he leaves home I"d consider it

Max
Reuben
Ned

Maxwell/Max?

Julien/Jude

Jethro

Julius
Cornelius
Adam

or if you want to be really sure

Roger
Reginald
Keith
etc

Richard, Giles, Sebastian, Marcus, Andrew?

Someone further up mentioned Nathaniel-great name and Nat is a good nickname.

Edgar?

David

Joshua
Edmund
Leon