Odin...

[PavlovtheForgetfulCat]

What do you think?

DH and I are thinking it is actually quite nice. Goes quite nicely with our surname.

[reuset]

I like the 'Goes nicely with our surname' reason for using

[SmugairleRoin]

Holy shit this is from 2009. How did I end up here? Apols everyone

[SmugairleRoin]

Would your dh like Ezra op? Similar sound to Erasmus but less out there iyswim

[minouminou]

One other thing to bear in mind is that these names might seem a bit out of place if your son may turn out to be slight of build.
I know a Styrbjorn, and a Thor, and a Torbjorn, and they're all bloody great hulking chunx-o-Nordic, so these names suit them.

[cory]

Agree, Stybrjörn is good.

[minouminou]

Styrbjorn's another good one. Lotsa history, but no dodgy stuff.

[cory]

Another one to avoid, I'd say, is Balder. For the same Aryan Nation reasons.

If you want Scandinavian: Thor, Björn, Torbjörn, Thorfinn etc come without connotations.

[minouminou]

Yeah - like those people in America, with Aryan Nation and her brother Adolf Hitler.
Not that I'm saying the OP's like this....soz if it came across like that.
Another vote for Thor, though.

[minouminou]

Eeek....I'm with Cory here with the Scando neo-nazi thing (IYSWIM). I - even I - wouldn't do it.
Having seen a neo-nazi rally passing through Stockholm....some of the flags and symbols and all that shizzle....nah.....
It's a good name, though, but it's all a bit too Wagner-ish.

[cory]

I suppose you might get away with it if you never propose to visit Scandinavia. To me, as a Swede, it sounds like a far right political statement. You'd expect a sibling called Adolf.

[LucyOnTheSchoolRunWithDiamonds]

I know an Odin. His mum rather earnestly told me that they'd gone for a name that was "unique, not freak"

She errs on the side of the later, tbh. It's an okay name, but there are nicer myth/ legend names I think ...

[AramintaCane]

What about Loki if you are into gods

[MrsWuh]

Doesn't Erasmus mean 'beloved' or somesuch? I like it actually!

[southernbelle77]

I personally wouldn't use it, but it's not horrible and it has quite a nice sound to it! Better than your dh's other suggestion!!

[cory]

You may find that it has neo-Nazi connotations in some parts of the world. The people who are into the Asa gods in northern Europe also tend to be into a few other things.

Thor/Tor is widely used as a name in Scandinavia, so is more neutral.

[nooka]

Odin is a bit silly really, just too obviously the name of the god and nothing else (plus the Norse gods weren't really very nice, and although Odin was the god of wisdom he was also the god of both war and death). Name for a pet only in my book. Erasmus is interesting . We were going to use Ezra though (I still in some ways regret not having a boy just for the name, although dd is obviously very lovely).

[BerylCole]

Awful

[seeker]

[PavlovtheForgetfulCat]

Well thats quite a good response. I was expecting a pounding to be honest, so good on yer ladies

DH is not impressed with it now, he has, in the space of several hours gone off it. And is now talking about Erazmus. WTF! I have told him there is NO wiggle. Not happening.

[OurLadyOfPerpetualSupper]

I'm afraid I also find it too close to Onan (as in the sin of Onanism.)
Sorry.

[seeker]

Don't forget Frig....

[apostropheisback]

How about the less well known ... Tisiphone ?

[Ondine]

I don't like well known God names for children, too much to live up to.

[seeker]