Help needed ...to find a boy's name

[lucy123]

I know we've covered this before, but I'm still stuck, so I thought I'd start a parallel thread to Ghosty's

names I kind of have in mind...

Lucas
Luis
Cameron

I'm kind of constrained by the fact that the name has to work in Spanish (although I don't mind if he has an English given name as long as I like the equivalent in Spanish). Cameron obviously is not Spanish, but apparently there is a famous Flamenco singer with that name.

Also I have a thing about family names (as ds will have dp's surname) so the name has to work well with Robert, David, or William as a middle name. Actually I would like Albert or Kenneth as a middle name but dp is against this.

Oh yes, Joseph is another possibility (Jose or Pepe in Spanish).

But I'm stuck!

Manuel or pedro.
My son is a reuben.

I like -

Daniel, Joshua, Liam

I like Laurence
Charles
George
Crawford

No clue on the spanish, but if dd had been a boy she would probably have been Owen (owen james), maybe ewan or finlay

i like:

Ben
Jai (ended up calling DD this as middle name, after a horse, long story . .)
Jasper

Actuall,y theres not many boys names I like. ;(

I think all of these can be spanish; Andrew (Andres), Philip (Felipe), James (yago), Paul (Pablo), Marcus (Marcos), Alexander (alejandro). Hope you find something you like soon. xx

There is a boy in my ds' class whose Mum is Spanish and he is Nicolas - Spanish spelling and easy to pronounce in both countries - usually gets called Nico.

Also, thinking of my male colleagues in our Spanish office - names that could be used here too are Ramon, Sergio, Raul, Tito (he's gorgeous) Rafael, Victor, Ruben, Zacarias (Zak), Benjamin.

Oh, I like Nicolas - and Nico.

(Wanted to call DS2 Nicholas but family wouldn't let me - I think Nicky is nice for a little boy, and Nick is great for a grown-up.)

Javier or Pablo maybe? But I like Nicolas or Tomas too. Robert Graves had a Tomas and I think it works very well in Spanish and juxtaposed with English names.

Does Javier really work in English though? I like it in Spanish. I think I know too many "nasty Nick" s for that to be a choice. Does sound nicer as Nico. And Zak is good. Must look that up...

can you tell I still haven't got much closer to a decision?

I teach a Tomas this year; kept wondering where the spelling came from.

I'd forgotten Nasty Nick. I only know one grown-up Nick and he is not nasty (possibly a bit too touchy-feely though!)

alfie rodrigo,rory,rodry
tom
sam
marcos
raul
daniel
roberto
enrique,kike,kiko
iker
javier,javi or xavier
max(it doesn't have to be maximiliano)

Has anyone mentioned Matias/Mateo/Matthew or Gabriel or Alejandro/Alex or Oscar or Julian?

I know people called Julio Cesar and Miguel Angel ... hmm. Also Robert Downey Jr has a son called Indio - it sounds good in English but would perhaps take some living down in Spain.

Dinosaur, I take your point about Franco not being such a good choice in Spain. The ones I know are South American so it's not such a problem.

i do as well dinosaur,why didn't i think of it before i had ds,oh well

i like rory but keep thinking of the rory the mascot from haven holidays and it puts me off iykwim

Stig

Rhubarb - I think dp would love Stig. His suggestion was "Darth".

I love Max, but it sounds like a porn-star name with dp's surname. And it would have to be Maximiliano or Maximillian - I have a thing about giving babies the full name (for telling off purposes, and just in case ds turns out to be a high court judge or somthething).

Lucy123 - I started a similar thread a month or so ago - my baby is due next week and I still don't have a name!! Agghh - girls names are so much easier. Have you decided yet?

OK everyone - still undecided (and have even changed my own name now. perhaps that says something)

Current shortlist is:

Lucas
Tomas
Xavier
Adan (pronounced aDAN - the Spanish form of Adam)
Alden - like this mostly because it means "old friend"
Rafael (though suspect dp will hate this)

What do you think? Other ideas welcome!

Or does Dax sound silly?

Dax sounds like Jatsia (sp?) Dax (dacks?) from Star Trek! I like Lucas, it's quite unusual isn't it?