Right, I need a boys name thread all of my very own <<self indulgent>>

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I need to cheer myself up and focus on the positives after my 20 week scan yesterday (baby showed soft marker for Trisonomy 18)

We aren't thinking about that any more and are focusing on buying clothes and choosing names

I like
Felix
Milo
Cassius (not possible with surname)

I also like Jasper, Caspar, Silas, Rafferty and Asa but wouldn't actually choose them I don't think.

DH likes Jude and Finn.

Please feel free to make loads of suggestions .

DD is Madeleine and DS is Noah.

I like Finn, Milo and Rafferty.

toby was on my list for a DS

sorry about the soft marker.. are you having further tests ?

Awww, are you having a boy? Congrats!

I really like Rafferty, and Jude.

I know a silas too and it's a pretty good name.

Reuben?

I love Felix and Milo. I think they sound great with your other two as well.

I loved Reuben for DS1 but DH wasn't keen. No Lulu we aren't having the amnio. It was just the choroid plexus cyst.

Lulu do you think Rafferty would be ridiculous with my surname? DH has an inbuilt 'ponceometer' and I think Rafferty might be way off the scale on it .

Milo will forever be a blue tweenie to DH- I love it. My top choice is

Felix Asa.

I personally wouldn't have a Milo with a Madeleine and a Noah (similar sounds, could be confusing when shouted up the stairs/across the park). But I really like Felix and Cassius was on my sister's shortlist so I didn't orginally like it but have got used to it over time... still sounds a bit, er, girly somehow to me (but that's just me).

Finn is great (also on my list for DD1, who has the same name as your dd in fact, so we have common tastes!) but is a bit too popular now for me.

How about Fergus? I love that, just met a little Fergus and it's such a good name.

DH not keen on names of a scottish origin

Rafferty no no no no no no

Rapheal instead of Rafferty?

Raphael is even poncier than Rafferty! DH just uttered a resounding NO at Rafferty.

Rafferty was slagged off for being chav on the thread about the couple on Location, location last week! So no sure where it falls.

I think it is 'American' in style. I like Raff though. Lovely. Rafael or Raphael is a trifle too poncey for me. I'd choose Raff short for Rafferty especially if you have a tenuous connection to Ireland. every flown Ryanair/ or had a Guinness or an O'Brien's sandwich? That's ok then, use Rafferty.

What about Rory? I LOVE the suggestion of Fergus or Gus btw, also Guy Greg or Rory maybe short for Gregory?.

Also love Felix and Leo, not crazy about Milo but I don't dislike it. Prefer Leo and Felix by miles (ha ha) did you see what I did there?
What were the other names??

Em, not crazy about Cassius, although I love Julius and Marcus.

Jasper -ok reminds me of Jester though, but it's alright. I like Victor more.
Caspar - prefer this. I knew a very handsome one, so it has been 'normalised' for me.
Silas - ok, prefer Saul or Seth
Asa - Spanish for handle. No.

ps Saul or Reuben would go really well with Noah.

ok.

surname.. good point !!

i know a reuben and an elijah and a gabriel.

all lovely names i think

i think felix asa is as poncey as rafferty , so your DH's ponceymeter will go off

but poncey in a good way.

Seth is a no-no as is anything with a 'th' sound as DH can't say it.

Still loving Felix, not sure DH loves it as much as me. at Asa meaning handle.

I wouldn't have thought Rafferty was classed as a chav name, but I have never come across anyone with the name.
Gus is great! A would have Augustus, Gus for short.
I would avoid Felix with your surname.

DH doesn't like Gabriel or Reuben. I just think an Elijah or any other biblical name will be too much with Noah. We are not remotely religious.

Was going to say Noah but you already have one. If this baby is a boy he will be Noah

What about Lewis? That's my ds' name.

Congrats on your boy

I think Felix goes ok with surname. Nothing is ever going to 'go'. It sounds better than Cassius . Imagine if he has a lisp.

I have nephews called Finn and Jude - both such sweet names. Also know a Judah which I think is very cool, and seems to me to go well with Noah. In same vein as Rafferty, how about Ralph (with the Rafe pronunciation), or written as Rafe? Traditional yet unusual and cool.

I knew this was your thread before I even opened it.

I really like Jude.

No Scottish stuff... okay (my DP is Scottish so that's ruling out a LOT of our favourites!)

Looking back at your list, I like Caspar and Silas a lot. I didn't know Asa was a boy's name, I would have automatically assumed a girl's name but that's my ignorance.

Did a Nymbler search with your top three names and your DH's two names. Here are the top names (I've bolded the ones I like):

Ezra
Japheth
Augustus
Eli
Alexander (Scottish )
Asher
Caleb
Jabez
Zed
Jack
Benjamin
Leif
Napoleon
Aidan
Ignatius

Taking out your DH's choices the list looks like this:

Marcellus, Philo, Ephraim, Jasper, Lucian, Theophilus, Sinclair, Augustus, Ezra, Atticus, Leander, Adolphus, Montgomery, Simeon, Erastus

Typing in your two children's names you get:
Jesse, Mitchell, Caleb, Isaac, Zachary, Ari, Ian, Joah, Noam (why would you want either of those two if you have a Noah?), Jedidiah (go on, I dare you!), Elias (which I do like), Gabriel, Ishmael, Ethan and Benjamin

That enough names for you?

X-posted there with lots of posts - see you don't want biblical names so that rules out lots of the Nymbler suggestions, sorry.

I don't know your surname but understand if that rules certain names out.

Would Eli be okay (as not obviously religious in the same way as Elijah is?). I know an Eli and think it's lovely.

Joel?

Love Caspar and Jude

I just don't like Felix because it's my brother's name and we don't get on

You have good taste , I really like your name suggestions, especially Jasper, Caspar and Felix.

I'm ot keen on Jude as it sounds a little feminine to me (I know a Judith, nn Jude), nor Cassius which has too many 'ss' in it and doesn't roll of the (my) tongue easily...

Have you considered

Victor
Quentin
Tobias (Toby)
Rory