Please come and be judgey at my name list. Thank you please.

[NBheebieGeebies]

Austin - I like but, you know, theres something there iyswim.

Rohan - dh and I keep saying it as Rowan but I prefer Rohan iyswim, so if we call him Rohan will we be thought of as numptys who have changed the spelling of name?

Jansen - but I would have to pronounce it Yansen or I'd feel daft, then I'd feel daft saying Yansen when we're clearly not sweedish/finnish.

Jenson - does it sound sad and does it make you think that we've just called him after a racing driver?

Lewin - Cant make my mind up on it.

Honesty please!

Austin makes me think of Texas makes me think of G Bush. What about Parker if want a surname-y kinda name? (or is it a girls surname-y name?)

Welsh names are beuatiful, but only if you say them right!

"girl's"

nbg

ian rankin novels

Rohan.

It's gaelic/irish and also Sanskrit origin apparently, meaning Red.

You say that Le-well-in though dont you MB?

It was in a huge baby name book Lewin.

There are lots of other names I liked but dh didnt.

The other two which I've stuck on the back burner are Devon and Cole.

Parker too American, imo

Lou-ell-in

although there is the tricky LL bit at the fron that sounds like a cat spitting up a hairball

Cole is quite sweet, or Clement. Or Cassius. Or Otto. Or Otis...

Devon and Cole chavvy

You could be daring and outlandish and go for ....John!! Lead the backlash against 'different' names, as well as being him being the only one in the class

yes they are chavvy

Ieuan?
Iestyn?

i secretly like Kevin

ahhhhh Ian Rankin

Parker was another choice of mine.

I also loved Mack, Sebastian, Seth (although increasingly popular), Sullivan, Woody

and yes, dh has made the point about the Disney theme.
(unbeknown to me at the time)

Is Cole chavvy - like Cole Porter? What about Porter?

People will think Cole as in footballer

Truman?

No, you dont not say Lew el lin

LL doesn't male the L sound in welsh at all, it is a very different sound.

'The ?aspirated L? is a phoneme exclusive to Welsh and in modern usage is written ?LL? as in ?Llewelyn?. '

To quote the internet. Please don't give your son a name you can't pronounce.

Agree with other posters that Devon and Cole are a bit chavtastic.

Also Devon = Ambrosia Custard to me.

there arent enough Williams these days as far as i am concerned

William is a lovely name, we are going to have it for db3 middle name (if he is a boy)

I can pronounce it, I just can't write how I pronounce it

See I thought Cole as in Porter, not as in footballer. Whilst I wouldn't choose Devon or Cole myself, I prefer both of them to your original list.