Okay..after the girls names thread how about boys' names!?

[babyonboard]

We had a firm name for a girl, but after two scans he is 100% a boy..and it's harder than with a girl I think..soooooo.....

It's funny..whenevr we are in shops I browse the bookshelves looking at the authors names, or pick up dvds and read the names on the box..hehehe
I have found baby name books hard work! They are full of awful and just outlandish names

is it possible to not like a single boys name? am I living in some sort of denial?

Hahaa..we had that same problem..we had tons of girls names, and everyone was convinced this was a girl..
then had a period of utter cluelessness after the scan and we still can't decide. With girls we had so many firm favourites...

i sympathise

if i was having a boy and I had to pick a name from your list I thik I would go for

hmmm I like Victor although can never have it as have a historial dislike of someone we know calle dVictor.

Oliver is nice, well Oli is .

Milo!!! (my ds). The only other name i like was Elijah- but hubby said NO!

oh MT just had to post, your first five names are (almost) my ds1 and ds2?s names, how spooky is that??????
I also like the other names you mention.
Also Gabriel (but dh said NO), Miles, Hugh.
Would avoid names like Matthew and James and Thomas and Jacob unless you want ds to be one of several in the class.
John is classy and almost trendily obscure these days!

yes I like John but due for a revival

also David

Barry
Larry
Garry

I'm probably going to offend a few people now but as I am pg I don't care. I think Alfie and Archie border on criminal! Do they really think the child is going to appreciate this at 17? At job interviews for serious jobs? As a grown up in general? Yes, can them Alf or Achibald and use the affectionate name, then at least they have the choice when they are older.

Sorry, Archibald

Leyton

I'm trying to think of boys names too - I love loads of boys ones but can't think of a single girl name i like!!

For boys I like Jacob, Samuel, Oliver, Harvey, Lennon (apart from being called Len), Isaac/Zac and Kalen.

DS is Finlay/Fin

My ds is Louis... I love it!

My Angels are Samuel, Harold an Stirling.

My current faves otherwise are Rio (because we are int he carnival scene), Benedict / Ned, Gabriel and Malachi.

We have Benedict John for this baby if it's a boy, already have DS called Harry and love also:

Edward (won't go with our surname)
William (would be a bit royalist with a Harry and a William!)
George
Thomas
Joseph

We have been 100% in agreement both times with girls names..but argue like mad over the boys names!

I also love Patrick, but not with our surname. And Peter, too.

I love Malachi! And Irish not 'trendy' - however dp not impressed. Still Finlay (Fin) - Zephyrcat - does your ds like his name, any probs with it?

If DD had been a boy she was going to be Oliver Joseph.

Other names I like (some we can't have cbecause of our surname) are:

Jacob
Caleb
Harry
Alfie
Finlay
Jack
Joshua
William
Callum
Tobias
George
Zachariah
Edward

Hiya Finlay is only 15 months at the mo so doesn't have much say in his name yet - no doubt that'll change!! We love it though and haven't managed to come up with any silly nicknames for it and the only other thing he's likely to get called (and does get called) is Fin which I prefer!!

The funniest thing about it is dp wouldn't let me call him Cameron because it was 'too Scottish' ......... and then chose Finlay!?!?! Bless lol

my 2 ds are Keir and William, both names that just appeared on my list when i was pregnant and when i said the name to dh he was in agreement.

if i was to have another boy, i quite like
Jasper
George
Oliver
Jacob (although wouldn't use as would be shortened to Jake)

ds2 would like a brother called fungus, after the bogeyman!

Enid - I'm like you, found it impossible to think of a boy's name I loved.

rachey - DD2 was going to be Malachy if she was a boy! maybe a bit less "trendy" if you spell it with the "y"? although I love it with an i too.

Might even have to try again for a boy I love it so much !!!

my auntie was going to call her little boy wolfie! but her dh said that if she did he would divorce her.

My sis always fancied the name Earl, until she married Mr Court that is! And I always dreamed of a James until I married Mr Peach. Surnames are a pain.