Do you like the name Finlay??

[dewberry1]

Have I even spelt that right?? ha
I also like Fraser..
and if it a girl I have no ideas..My darling son wants Olivia but ive been put off by people saying its common..sob! xx

My ds3 is Finlay, which can be shortened to Fin when we like.

Good choice!

apparently it means sunbeam in Irish, which is very cute.

Like Finlay, Finn, Finnian (maybe that's going a bit too far?)

Olivia is not common - my DD would be distraught if you said that. Mind you she is 13 and when we gave her her name nearly everyone was saying "ooh how unusual, that's a strange name" etc. etc.

Miaou, I have CATd you

is my ds middle name
so i like it
olivia's classy! not common... there are quite a lot around, but fewer than all the rubys, eleanors and megans.....

Aw thanks hunker! Dh is hogging the laptop so I will check later

I have a Finn and he's soooooo handsome, even at 11 months but I am biased of course.

I like it. It was our 'boy' name when we had DD!.

I like Finlay too, its one of those names that you can imagine suiting a baby as well as a toddler/school child/grown up... prefer it to Fraser personally...

Olivia is quite common round here too but is a beautiful name, what about Olive for something similar yet a bit unusual.

Am also considering Esme for a girl but get a really mixed reaction - see thread posted a few down...

What about Phineas (Phin for short)..

No, but I like Finn. Wouldn't go for Finbar either ? there was a character in Vizz magazine called Finbar Saunders and his double entendres.

Hurrah! Ds1's name mentioned TWICE on the same thread. How good is that? (of course he was the only one in the world when we named him!)

He's never yet been shortened to Fin, but we call him Finti a lot.

I love Finn, it is my number one choice for ds3 due in 3 weeks - I like the Irish Finn Macool warrior legend. I don't know any round here (S.Wales) have talked dp round to Finlay/Finley but I think we would just call him Finn all the time so trying to shift him! My dad is Irish and in gaelic it's Fionn really - 'fair warrior' (but round here that is a Welsh girl's name so we can't spell it that way). Finlay feels a little too Scottish for us (being Irish/English/Welsh), Finley is English version I think (Finley Quaye?)

We are struggling to find a middle name to go with Finn - any suggestions please? (It can't end in an -on/an sound because of our surname)

I like Calum or Liam. My DS is Euan. Finn is cool - isn't there a Norwegian version with slightly different spelling?

Unfortunately, that name reminds me of a local Finlay - whos a pain, sorry
At the end of the day, have whatever name YOU like and stuff what everyone else thinks

My Finn's middle name is Andrew after his Granpa. When put together with his very Scottish last name it sounds lovely. Do you want an exotic middle name or something more traditional?

My Fin is Finlay Alexander

Finlay Clarkes is the name of a garden centre round here, so can't hear of it without thinking of that, for some reason. Love Finn though...

Calum is a totally cool name. And so is Finnian.

I like Calum too, Miaou

And Finnian's good. Hmm...

Oh yes, particularly like the name Fraser as well

I wanted ds to be Finnian so we would have Caitlin (Cake Tin), Eilish (Eyelash) and Finnian (Onion)

mean mummy

pagan..if a ds he may be called finlay paul..as thats dh middle name..what do you think?? xx

That sounds great - for some reason it has a familiar ring to it but I can't think why

Am loving Finn Alexander - prefer traditional middle name to give baby choice when he's older! Like Calum but it's my nephew's name, Paul is dp's father so becoming partisan! Have to watch the x's as ds2 is Max and there's an x in his surname too.