Name ideas please (boys esp).

[LaDiDaDi]

I'm due in Dec and need to while way time until then and I love a good baby names thread sooo...

I have lots of ideas for girls names and basically I would like something not too cutesy and a well known but not very fashionable right now iyswim.

Nina
Alexa
Harriet
Ruth
Elsa
Susannah

Really struggling for boys which I have the same criteria for

Stephen
Arthur

also like but can't have

Michael
Edwin
Edward

Any ideas please?

What about a christmas name, Holly, Carol, Noel, Stephen, Stephanie, Nicholas?

my son is called harley aiden jack my friends son is hayden but i also like
kain
jayden and
benjamin louis
damian.jay
jason.leigh
dacota
girls
my daughter is mia.grace ebony
my my partners baby sister is annie eve
and i also like
skyla louise megan
cora
chelsea
kyla
rachel.mae
and
faith

Hugo
Miles
Oscar
Anthony

None of those are fashionable are they?

Alexa and Harriet are very popular. Love the others though

Surprisingly Arthur is also quite popular as is Edward which you probably know. I like Michale and Stephen.

If you like Edwin and Edward but can't have them how about Edgar/Edwin/Edbert/Edison/Edmund?

Thanks all.

I like Hugh in preference to Hugo. Miles is good too. No to Oscar and Anthony.

Christopher fits my criteria but I can't use it for a complicated reason.

Not sure about the variants on Edward/Edwin, none of them really jump out at me.

I wish that National Statistics had published proper name popularity tables for 2008 so I could see what is zooming up the charts.

I like Hugh and Hugo. Miles is nice but also zooming up the charts it seems.

Is it nappyaddict?

Hector
Vincent
might get on the list.

Isaac.

Abe
Christopher shortened to Kit
Noah
Love Jethro (despite the comedian and I don't like Jeff as nn.)

Love Hector and Vincent. Yep I know quite a few baby Miles at the moment. Even more Isaacs.

Harriet Ruth
Tobias Noah

Sorted!!

What does everyone think of Jed? Too nicknamey?

I like your choices janeite, will have to convince dp though!

I know a Jed who is 60

I know a Jed who is atleast 75...

i know a Ged - it's short for Gerard (he is 40), but I like it.

Love Hugh. DS2 was very nearly Hugh, if there is ever a major slip up and we have another baby (that turns out to be a boy!) then he will be Hugh.

Cecily is my fave girls name.

Sorry but I really don't like Jed. I just want to add an 'i' to the end. Tis very different to the solid, old fashoned type names you've mentioned before.

fashioned

Jethro
Felix
Jude

Bryony
Jemima

I like Jemima, I don't think dp does and I do wonder if it's a bit frilly iyswim.

Jed is a bit different to the others isn't it?

Veering towards Elliott for a boy today.

Rachel? Orla? Mabel?

Mabel is nice.

Not sure about Rachel, sometimes I think it sounds very harsh and I hate Rach but it does fit with my criteria.

Orla is lovely but I think it would sound silly as a sib for Laura.

I like Mabel, Felix and Jude. My main criteria for names were that I couldn't know more than 2 children with it so for me Jemima, Orla, Rachel and definitely Elliott would be out.