what if i have a boy after all?!!! Names needed

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DC2 due next week. at my 20 week scan the sonographer said the baby was 'probably a girl', so i have a girl's name pretty much picked out. However, she could be completely wrong and i could end up with a little boy in my arms in a couple of days and not a clue what to call him!

I used to like v conventional boys names (Joseph, Joshua etc) but recently i've been thinking it would be better to go for something a little more unusual (but not weird).

Asked dd (nearly 4) what we should call the baby. She thinks Cupcake or Pretty if its a girl and Max if it's a boy!

I quite like

Laurence
Theo
and Max is actually growing on me!

Any ideas along similar lines would be most welcome...

Also might end up having Ronald as a middle name after my grandfather. Surname is v traditional english, ends with '-ward'.

Cupcake or Pretty! My 4-year-old niece suggested I call mine Jellybean.

How about Henry or Oliver?

Jellybean's lovely!

Have a cousin Oliver (who's not someone i particularly want to pinch a name from, although i do like it...)

Henry is lovely, but as our surname begins with H, not sure how i feel about doubling up initials, might end up a bit 'enry 'iggins with our east end family!

Joseph is timeless.
Laurence is strong.
Theo and Max more of the moment.

Laurence with an H surname.

Does have a ring to it, i'll give it that much...

bring on the names tho', i need inspiration!

Laurence AWFUL, SORRY
Theo GREAT
Max GREAT

How about

Zac
Niall
Joel
Sean

Like Theo and Max, not Laurence.

I like Theo, Max and Laurence, in that order.

They are not really names of a type though, so it's hard to know what to suggest.

What about Elias? Unusual but easy to spell/pronounce.

With the current vogue for Arthur, I rather like other medieval sounding names like Gawain and Roland and Geoffrey - all traditional but unusual these days

Jonah
Coran
Roan
Reuben
Hugo
Hector
Xavier

I love Donald, not ready for Ronald again yet! Theo is ok.. I used to love it but I have gone off it a bit. I would go for just Leo. I think that's more classic, will date less, but there will be fewer his exact age.

ironlikealion, I like Roland! I would use Roly. I know of a baby Geoffrey. Nmsaa but Gregory is nice. Gawain is nice. Is that 'gowan' or gavin?

oh and I am always trying to persuade people Fabian is a great name

It is! I really like that.

Recently thought about Jago for an unusual option.

DS1 wanted us to call DS2 Noddy. Two years later he thought Squillie would be good middle name for DD, first name Millie!!

Jago is already very much out there though. In some pockets of London, Jago is mainstream.

sorry i thought this was the predictions thread. Jago is a lovely name.

OOh sorry, I'm a middle aged northerner and everyone's called Jason up here !

Joel

jago always sounds a bit, um, derogatory to me, like Dago. sorry.

i love Jonah but dh wouldn't let me use it in a month of sundays (reckons he'd never be let on a boat, esp bad as we live by the sea)

Joel also nice.