your favourite unusual boy's name

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Tell me so I can steal it please!

DS2 due oct- DH hates the ones I like (Jude, Gabriel) because he says they are girly . He likes Edward and George, which are ovely names but I think I'd like something a bit more unusual.

I also love Seamus (my family is Irish) but it sounds odd with our very English surname!

Hector
Bruno
Percy
Jasper
Jarvis

Ah, Percy is cute.

Claire, just pick a name you love and you think your child can live with/ up to. If you love Kester then go for it- you'll never please everyone so you may as well please yourselves.

Leander

It turned out we didn't have a boy, but it would have been hard to use because I was afraid people would have said Leen-der instead of Lee-an-der.

Isaiah
Balthazar
Casimir
Clement
Arnaud/ Arno

and most Irish names

I love Balthazar
DH refused to entertain it for either DS
If we ever have DS3, he will be Brodie.
Also love Asa, and Jarvis

Ozias (my great, great, great grandfather's name)
Absalom
Alvar

meadowlarks - Marlon is cool because of Marlon Brando - but it always reminds me of The Perishers.

Fabhead - Jago is pronounce Jay-go and if Inago is the same as Inigo (as in Jones) then it's In-i-go (middle i pronounce as phonetic i, not the letter name - if that makes any sense at all?)

Dorian
Balthazar - another vote for this
Ambrose - as above
Hamish
Valentine
Quentin
Julius
Ptolemy
Octavius

Also like Lucius and Lucas.

So glad some others like Eden for a boy. I am having a running battle with DH about that name at the moment for DS3 due next month. We already have 3 unusual 'E's (have a DD as well as 2 DSs), the DSs names have been listed on this thread as well.

'Eden' reminds me of a handsome, dark haired, kind & gentle man (just like DH actually but don't tell him that!). So many people are saying it's a girls name though .

My friend has a Basil and a Herbie! I like Seamus but don't want to be thought of as Oirish (even though we both have Irish dads).

Murray
Tate

Cuthbert
Lyle
Travis (but not if your surname is Perkins)
Fergus
Lennox
Sylvester
Irving
Gillespie
Spencer
Rowland
Magnus

I actually really liked Marcus for our DS but it wasn't selected in DH's list of names he liked culled from an old book of baby names. They do put the kibosh on a lot of mummies' choices, don't they? My father told my mum that she had the final say on names, as she was the one "doing all the work". My DH is less enlightened...

Raphael
Rory
Leander
Clovis
Byron
Rowan
Raven
Jasper