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

my ex-employer made up the name Kylum for her son. i know you wanted a name no-one has but i really like this and he is the ONLY boy with it.

I vote for Hugo or Theo.

I have a Sam, so I really like that I also like Hugo, as others posted, Elliot, Thomas, and Will. Andrew/Andy? We went through this same thing with Sam- we wanted a "normal", more classic name.

Angus/Gus, Isaac/Zak

Adam
Lewis
Jonathon
Malcolm
Martin
Andrew

Augustus
Percy

Giles
Marcus
Anthony (my cousin is Anto for short)

Matthew / Mark / David / Simon / Andrew

Open an old book or the Bible randomly and you'll get many an idea. Choose the genre you fancy- herois, classical, etc- and there you go.

All names I reallylike but don't know any babies (well one matthew) who have them

DS1 ma\y have been David but have 2 uncles a cousin and a BIL called that already! All 40+ though

Charl;es is nice, ds's friend is a Charlie

Matthew
Michael
Andrew
Davis
Jonathon
Paul

(I really liked Marcus crumper but dh vetoed as he is a MArk. Boo)

Humphrey
Godfrey
Montagu
Sebastian
Albert
Augustus
Cornelius
Josslyn
Barnaby
Maurice
Trist an
Tarquin
Josiah
Caspar
Julius

DS1 is a giodfrey as middle name, he likes it, good name (was my maiden name); ds4 is a Sebastian but there are a few (not many but a few) about now.

Ours are- Samuel Godfrey, Stirling Max , Harold Jarvis Griffith and Sebastian George

Clarence. Surely due a revival.

Walter?
Stanley?

Leslie?
Frank?

Aubrey?

I'll leave now ....

Clement?

I like Joseph.

Paul
David
Michael
Josiah
Jeremy
Peter
Phillip
Dominic
Robert
Mark
Marcus
Eugene
Colin

Gil?

short for gilbert.

How about Jay?
not common and really nice

Dominic?

Blimey, well 10/10 for diligence, you're all still here!

I tried asking DH what he DID want and he said "Will" or "Charlie".. or something.

So, I know, maybe I should just be content with one of those, but it doesn't Mean anything to me ifswim, and we already know one of each.

I don't want a name that no one else has, just not in our close circle.....

At least we've started laughing about it(It was getting very serious).... I suggested Ned, then asked what Ned was short for, and DH said "Nedward?".. so Nedward it is

I love Leo not Henry.

Along the lines of
Dan/iel
Nic/olas
Jo/seph
Ben/
Will/

I also like

Saul Guy Gus (Fergus)
Greg(ory) Dominic Richie (Richard)
Rob/Robbie/Robert
Marcus and Julius are two brilliant Roman Classics. Love them both. Marcus a tiny bit more approachable, but love Julius.

A bit quirkier, but I love Victor, Donald and Bruce.

My ds is a Wilfred,,, a friends ds is Arlo.....