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different...but not ridiculous boys' names?

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motherbeyond · 18/03/2010 13:05

title says it all really.i've picked my girls name,but we just cannot agree on a boys.

austin
hugo
paddy
quinn (love this but already have a fin!)
milo (not sure though)
oisin

are some of the ones bandied about,but dh says no to them all.
we've got a few weeks left before dc3 arrives,and i'm worried i'll be pressured into picking a name i don't love because i ran out of time !help....please!

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westender · 18/03/2010 20:07

Malachy.

Beautiful name.

And is celtic.

BrigitteBardot · 18/03/2010 20:13

Oisin is beautiful and goes very well with Finn!

HelenDoula · 18/03/2010 20:37

wow ! some cool names, almost wish I was having another baby !! .... half of those names go to my childrens school!!!

McBitchy · 18/03/2010 20:43

Gorgeous names on here including three of my children's AND my cat's!

I love

Emile
Amory
Rhodri
Crispin
Caspar

oxcat1 · 18/03/2010 20:45

I, too, thought quimm 'was the most precious part of the female anatomy'.....

Facebookaddict · 18/03/2010 20:47

Love love love Austin and wanted it but DH put foot down as said would have hated to be called it. Austin Powers big turn off.

Rafferty
Xander (alexander)
Mason

love these too

MamaLazarou · 18/03/2010 22:06

Quim means fanny hair round here.

lowrib · 18/03/2010 23:00

GladioliBuckets you beat me to it! I was going to suggest the Welsh version of Oisin too.

Or there's the Scottish version as well, Ossian, which can be pronounced Oshan, Ossian, or Oshian.

Lovely name, with a great story behind it.

Here are some other suggestions:

Rowan / Rohan
Dara
Innes
Niall
Eden
Elias
Arlo
Kelvin
Tadhg (sounds like the beginning of Tiger)
Aldous

McBitchy · 18/03/2010 23:00

don't think anyone was suggesting it as a name

Quinn was the suggestion

lowrib · 18/03/2010 23:10

Or how about ...

Atticus
Tawno
Ezra
Elliot

lockets · 18/03/2010 23:50

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motherbeyond · 19/03/2010 07:55

yes,i wasn't suggesting quim as a name!i told my brother that i liked the name quin and he said,eyw,it sounds like quim... and told me that's what it meant.

i like a few of the suggestions,but have just read them out to dh over brekkie,and he said no to all.....driving me mad

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schroedingersdodo · 19/03/2010 12:09

motherbeyond I so sympathize with you!

I want something not very popular for my DS as well, and I never like the suggestions I'm given!

I saw that someone mentioned Joachim, and there's a reasonable chance my son will be called that. I like Emil and Milo, but I plan to have an Emilia someday, so both are out for now.

If you have a name you absolutely love, you can tell your DH it's your one suggestion - maybe he will get used to that eventually. It can work if he has no strong preference so far. Did he suggest any names?

mathanxiety · 19/03/2010 15:25

Ruadhan (pr ROO-awn)
Raftery NOT RAFFERTY (the blind poet Antaine O Raifteiri - Raftery - was known as the last of the wandering bards)
Roland

littledawley · 19/03/2010 15:28

Tadhg is such a great name!!

LittleMissWorryHead · 19/03/2010 15:33

Arlo.

Done

pogleswife · 19/03/2010 16:14

How about something 'different' in the sense that it's unusual at the moment but a well known name so not 'out there'? Thinking of Steven - don't know any young ones, but a good name and Steve or Stevie really cool. ( think Steve McQueen )
Others along same lines: Richard , Duncan, Philip, Martin, ...

laughalot · 19/03/2010 16:17

Aidan

laughalot · 19/03/2010 16:20

Or archie, alec, evan

DinahRod · 19/03/2010 16:42

Poppy, Fin & Artur/Arthur/Arty

Poppy, Fin & Angus

Poppy, Fin & Cosmo

Poppy, Fin & Rowan

Poppy, Finn & Euan

Poppy, Fin & Colm

Poppy, Fin & Innis

Poppy, Finn & Ioan

motherbeyond · 19/03/2010 18:35

he's just in from work and i've read out the list...he said "nope" to every one!
dinahrod COSMO?!!!!

oohhh,he's just come in and said maybe to rohan...and i quite like that too

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laughalot · 19/03/2010 19:03

reece, corey, robbie, cole, ralfie, ewan, owen, nyle, thomas or you could go for the option of the little boy in my ds class whos new baby brother has been called smirnoffand no im not lying i started a thread a few weeks ago on it. Why the hell would yo all it smirnoff

laughalot · 19/03/2010 19:04

sorry my keys are getting stuck

Cadelaide · 19/03/2010 19:04

Fin and Quinn would be somewhat hilarious.

kitsmummy · 19/03/2010 21:51

What about Kit?