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

Michael (Mike/Mick)
John (or Jonathon)
Arthur
Alistair (Al)

Nathan
Alexander
David

My DS is a David Alexander
I'm therefore biased

Wilfred

Clement
Abraham
Claude
Damon
Edgar
Gregory
Gerald
Germin
Graham
Harold
Hortensis
Jonah
K eith
Linden
Nigel
Quincy
Simon
Trevor
Wendell
Xavier
Zachary

I like Jonah and Clement

thankyou hanaflower, Rory is my eldest sons name

Gregory
Jonathan (vastly underused IMO)
Richard
Toby

I like Charles
Peter
Michael
Max
Laurence
Alan
Peirs
Andrew

I like

Sebastian
Gregor
Edward
Quentin
Tobias (Toby)

I have a Charles Henry! V nice name imo.

Phillip

What about Alexander ?

Alistair

Bruce.
Calvin, Caleb.
Ian, Raymond, Mark, Lance, Robin, Jeremy, Norman, Dennis, Nelson.

Josiah - Jed for short....

I don't know why you're even worried - Leo is a gorgeous name. Classic but cool and stylish.

Ditto Charles.

Either of those would be a lovely choice IMO.

Derek, Owen, Peter, Jonathan, Nathan are all favourites of mine.

Henry Charles is really nice
I think Charles goes really well as a middle name (is ds middle name with one of your vetoed choices)

Tobias (Toby) is really nice

Weirdly thought I had replied to this but cant see my response

Conrad
Neil
Vaughan
Carradoc
Emmerson
Emmett

WEll, if that doesn't sort us out............

Love lots of those, but are on DH's veto list, mostly for being too "poncey", but then he is one of 4 friends called Dave.. and it's a bit different here in Oz (keep reminding myself that That shouldn't matter!). Quite alot I have to veto too - didn't know I'd had so many boyfriends

Slowreadingprogress gets a star for most flattering reply :-)

Will get back to you if we come to a conclusion any time soon.

Thank you so much!

Luke
Frederick
John
Matthew

My DS is a Leo, so I obviously like it. I wanted Gabriel but DH not keen, other names I like are:

Elliot
Dominic
Jude

John
Matthew
Andrew
David