Ideas needed for boys name please.

[Xavielli]

Right, where to start? I'm only 15 weeks at the moment. I want to find out the sex but DP doesn't, so we need to decide on a name in the next 5 weeks, otherwise I know I'll keep suggesting names for the right sex and will ruin it for him.

To make matters much more difficult this is out first together. We have two DC each with completely different names. I'd like a name that wouldn't look/sound completely out of place with either set of siblings.

Mine, as you may have guessed, are Xavier and Eliana. His both have celtic/gaelic girls names which are quite popular at the moment.

We have such different tastes it is difficult, somehow we managed to agree on a Girls name. The surname begins with a D and has a hard C sound in the middle, if that helps.

Probably a little more explanation than you wanted but hey-ho! HELP!!

Right, off the top of my head, these are on the more unusual end of normal:

Gabriel
Marcus
Saul
Cyrus
Solomon
Christian
Rufus

GIRLS
Arianne
Harriet
Henrietta
Genevieve
Caitlin
Faith

BOYS
Hugo
Rowan
Dougray

Erm.. .....

Evan
Asa
Ezra
Leon

Elliot
Quentin
Vincent

hmm.. You all seem to be leaning towards my way of thinking, which he hate.

His ideas are Conor, Blaine and Finn.

I don't mind Finn but would rather it was short for something and there seems to be rather a log of them about

hates lot. Must learn to preview.

What we did was to go through the last few years Top 100 and wrote down 20 names we both liked. We then compared. We did this as a whole family so whilst my DS's name is not my first choice it is one I liked and so did everyone else.
Obviously you're not restricted to just the Top 100, you can put whatever you want on the list, but make sure everyone has it on their print-out or whatever.

Hope that makes sense.

Do you think he'll like any of mine? They aren't too weird.

Finn is lovely, but pretty popular, Conor is OK.

Laurence (Laurie)
Jude
Malachy
Lorcan
Patrick

Leon

Oliver

Callum

Charlie

Max
Rory

< on a roll now >

Finlay is a great name (name of my DS!).

PS SOrry I missed the only boys names needed bit!

If it's any help at all the girls name we agree on is Niamh

So, what do you think of my Irishy names above then?

Niamh is nice bTW

LOVE Rowan and Malachi.

i think Finn and Xavier go quite nicely
a few from me...
Fionn
Cian
Brodie (i know thats scottish not irish but i think it goes nicely)
Marcus
Iomar
Eainna (need to check the spelling on that one...)
Justin
Jarlath
William
Declan
Fernie
will brainstorm for more

Ambrose

tough brief!

I think Clodagh would tie in with his daughters' celtic names for a girl, and maybe something either a bit ecclesiastical/Saintsy like Dominic, Brendan or Leo for a boy. Or a celtic name like Fergus with Gus for short. Gus and Xavier go well, and Fergus in full ties it in with gaelic names.

I really like Marcus as suggest by a pp. Good one.

At the moment my favourite Irish boys name is Diarmuid. That might be too Irish? but it has a lot of history and background like Xavier.

Patrick is also a classic name which would 'go' with Irish names or English names.

Orla would go with Eliana

Roisin ties in with your dh's girls names but could be Rosie for short. Eliana and Rosie works well.

Fionn is the tradition spelling of Finn is it not?

DP is Scottish so Scottish names are fine.

I love Fergus, and Douglas. DP wasn't keen.

Brendan is too close to my surname, which is Irish. William and Rosie are already taken by my siblings children.

Another question; I don't mind Conor as a name. The thing that bothers me is that I know if either of his children from his previous marriage had been boys they would have been called this. Am I being totally stupid?

You are all great by the way! Sorry for being so difficult!

No - we love it!. Don't know if it's stupid or not, but the Conor thing would bother me, too. Hold out for something you both love

Corin
Frederick
Aaron
Charles
Duncan
Donald
Gregory
Hamish
Hector
Lawrence
Liam
Moray
Ma xwell
Maurice
Philip
Rory
Tristan

The conor thing is a little odd. What about Cormac? I prefer that. Also, Cormac is Scottish and Irish which is better for you I think?

I only recently discovered that Conor is pronounced the same as connard which is the French for bastard and that is not great. Not terrible I know as the streets aren't full of fluent french speakers,,,, but still...... Now perhaps that is silly.