Boys name dilemma - sorry to be boring

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Having huge problems deciding on a boys name. So far the list is as follows:

Freddie (I like Frederick too but husband doesn't)
Magnus
Tom
George

Bit worried that Freddie has got a bit too chav (with Jade's baby & featuring in Eastenders)and that Magnus is a bit obscure.

My daughter's name is Jemima - which we decided on almost immediatly!

Any opinions most welcome

John

picking up on Lapsedrunner, I actually really like John - but I would have it as Johnny like Mr Depp does! I think Johnny is a really cool name for a boy...Johhny and Jemima has a good sound to it!

Of your choices though, I love Magnus. I do know what Twig means, it MIGHT sound a bit smirkable if shouted to small boy in supermarket aisle but so what - it's a really distinguished, masculine name that is at least a bit more unusual.

Freddie IS to chav at the mo, and Tom is just SOOO common that as someone said he'd be with 20 others at school.

I also love George. Lovely name.

1 Magnus
2 George

I love George but my sister has a George.

We have decided on Benjamin (but Ben mostly, unless he is naughty )

I liked:
Sebastian (Seb)
Tobias (Toby)
Joseph
Nathaniel
William

My fave would be George tho...

How about Malachi?

Magnus might end up Maggie. Otherwise it's very nice.

Tom is incredibly boring imo.

I love Rueben, Sebastian and Caspar. I have 2 girls, tho. Just as well , I hear you say!

I love Magnus, what an excellent name!

I have: Samuel Godfrey, Stirling Max (Stirling Scottish enough for anyone? LOL- it's Mr Moss here I am afraid); Harold Jarvis Griffith.

I like Magnus too. Pity it doesn't really have any shortenings though. Does make me think of Strongest Men, so not entirely boffiny connexions!

Spookily enough, i was just channel surfing and TMF had a programme called awesomely wacky celeb baby names and they were discussing 'magnus' (son of some guy called Will Farrell????). Implication was that a Magnus should be tall/strong. Didn't catch why they thought it was wacky though - also featured were kids called 'Audio Science' and a family of boys called Racer, Rocket, Rebel and Rogue!!

Loving that someone likes Sebastian, but please don't shorten to Seb - not in my house anyway

we met a h ohnny on holidayt
dh coulnt refer to him wihtout starting to snigger

Johnny

I like Frederick too! Or Frederic?

Think Magnus is the best from your list; unusual but not weird. I don't know of any little Magnuses, and it goes well with Jemima.

yes I think I would snigger if I met a "h ohnny" too

hya hya hya

Magnus = Gus, shortly??????

Sebastian was a possibility ofr ds3, would have been shortened to Bas, on my insistence.

Re Sebastian - Glad it's not just me PeachyClair - I call him Bastian for short

why do parents insist on calling their children a name and then shorten it. why not just call them that name in the 1st place????

Jemima and Tom has a nice ring to it.

I fear if he was called Magnus it may be shortened to Maggie in years to come?

peridot, I think it's because a shortening is almost a way of showing affection. It's a 'fond' thing to most people. Many people with long names find that the long name is a bit 'formal' for use all the time. If I was Elizabeth I would love my full name and be glad of it in my day to day or professional life but if my dad wanted a cuddle or something it would sound nicer to me if he said "Give us a cuddle Lizzie" iykwim!

Hope this makes sense, Peri.

(see what I did there? )

btw, I do know what you mean - if someone is absolutely always called a shortening and even registered at school under it etc.....but I think sometimes the long name is there for in case the child becomes a high court judge or something and wants to sound professional!

why do parents insist on calling their children a name and then shorten it. why not just call them that name in the 1st place????

Potentially because they recognise that while Spike (or whatever) may seem to them an adorable name for their new baby, the child will one day be an adult with views of his or her own, and may prefer something more formal.

My brother was named the full version of his name, always called the short version throughout childhood, but as an adult has chosen to use the full form. I don't think storing up that future flexibility is a bad thing (although in my personal name choices I'm more in a name-the-full-thing, use-the-full-thing mode).

we picked our kids name so that they cant be shortened. defeats the purpose of choosing a name then shortening it.IYKWIM

Hi, my sons are Gus and Albie. Thats how it appears on the birth certifcate because I am not one for giving long names and then shortening them.
I think that if my boys don't like the names I have chosen when they are older - its easy to change them to something they do like.
I like Magnus and Angus - I would avoid Tom or Oliver though because they are becoming quite well used. (not wishing to offend)

I chose my children's names with care for both the long name and the shortenings, and call them a mixture of the two (and some other completely unrelated nick names too!). I would like for them to have some choice, because when they were born I didn't know who they were going to be, and wanted them to feel that they had plenty of options as they grew up. I always think it is a little unfair when I have met Grace's who were anything but, or girls with very pretty names/boys with very butch names who turned out not to suit those names. I have a few friends who have changed their names, but it's not an easy step to make. I'm also old fashioned and I like "proper names"! But then as I have a very unusual name (which I like and am proud of), I perhaps take names more seriously than I should!

Oh, and my grandmother tried the no shortenings possible thing, and it didn't work - both her children ended up always being called by their nicknames!

i like tom