Boys names, feel we are being too boring...

[TabithaTwitchet]

Just wondered if anyone would like to think up some inspiring suggestions to add to our (in my opinion slightly uninspired) list of boys names.

At the moment we like:

Me: Edward, Peter, Joseph, Jesse, John - not actually totally sure about the last 2

Husband: Stephen, Andrew

We both think each other's choices are OK but not blown away by any of them.

Additionally we have had to discount the following names (all of which I really love) on the grounds that they are the same or too similar to other family members, or don't go with our surname etc: Alexander, Robert, Benedict, Michael, Matthias, Christopher.

Tabitha glad you like Patrick (it's DHs name)

Here are some that are a bit less traditional

Joshua
Owen
Christian
Nathan
Max
Rory
Dylan
Jonah
Evan

Not keen on Jesse at all - only one I like is Jospeth but not enough to name my child it.

Names I like

Oliver
Oscar
Sebastian
Elliot/Elliott
Lewis
Freddie
Laurence/Lawrence
Henry

My ds is Patrick - and, if it matters to you - in all his 8 years we have never met another one!

I think that gender ambiguous names are generally a bad idea, because they can be a pain in the neck (I have a niece called Sam - she's quite a senior academic and she gets SOOOO fed up of people doing a double take when she turns out to be a woman!) - but (unfair, I know) I do think that being a boy with a name perceived as female could be difficult. There have even been songs about it.....!