I need to choose a boy's name - please help me!

[Mandymoo]

I have posted numerous threads on this subject so please dont get mad with me!

I am due in 9 weeks - i cannot choose a name i like.

So far we have:

Alfie - too chavvy?
Tom/Thomas
Harry

But nothing really grabs me - our surname is one syllabul so Jack, Luke, etc are out (hence Thomas/Tom)

Any suggestions?? TIA XX

It's really hard chosing a name. I particularly found it hard for DS2 after DS1

DS2 is Bailey - I presume you have a baby name book - go through it once more and say the names out loud with your surname.

We didn't decide on DS2 until the last minute, we had two choices and just looked at him and decided which one suited his face.

We figured this worked.

Aloysius would be nice with a single syllable.

(Kidding)

Alexander
Benjamin
Sebastian
Nicholas
Christopher
Daniel
Maximilion
Oliver
Theodore
William
Joshua

Plenty of time with ds we didn't decide till after he was born.....

Relax.....

Ichabod.

Jonathan

I'm posting the same as I always do on these threads so sorry if you've read before

Reuben
Max
Sterling
Dexter (thats a new one for me)

Ptolemy.

Benjamin is a nice name

Oliver
Benjamin
Daniel
Leo
William
Michael

Inigo.

dinny, I know a baby called Ptolemy.

Larch.

9 weeks is still quite a way away. It is a good thing for DD that she wasn't DS2 instead as we really couldn't think of any names that DH and I both agreed on.

Rowan
Sycamore

I really like it in many ways. Cleopatra's brother, if I remember correctly.

would be sooooo annoying for the kid having to spell it a zillion times constantly though.

Augustus
Tiberius

I like Solomon.

Would love a Gus. V cute.

you could always try what some friends of my aunts did. they had a baby last year and each morning at the school gate they'd announce 'she's alison/lucy/bella/etc today'. the next day they'd say 'oh it didn't suit' and try another. never heard whether they picked one in the end as my aunt started avoiding them after about three weeks!

personally i'm thinking Caleb if mines a boy at the minute but will all depend whether he looks like a Caleb so i'm desperately hunting for backups!

Not that I'm biased or anything - but I love the name we chose for our DS .... Matthew (it means Gift from God). It also can't be shortened to anything hideous - Matt or Mattie is about as much as you can do with it. Also consider what initials he'll have you don't want him to end up spelling something icky or embarassing!

Twitchell

means comes from a narrow passage

Tom and Thomas are very popular if that bothers you. A friend has a Thomas and there are five others in his class at school (class of 28....)
Harry is also quite popular but I like it. Alfie is an abbreviation (I'm not keen on those as given names), quite like Alfred but I don't know if any Alfie's are actually called that.
I like names that go with the other children's names, start with a different letter (also different from dad otherwise mail gets confusing) and are easy to say and spell. Your choices are all the last two anyway!
Dinny, my sister knows 2 toddler Ptolomys, wtf???
I also like:
Angus
Edward
Edwin (a bit samey, I know)
Fraser
Stanley
Sidney
Albert
(some of those a bit out there I will admit. Searching for a name for DS2, needed to be old english in style, trawled a names site and ended up musing seriously over Fairfax! what was I thinking. Luckily DH laughed out loud)

oooh sorry about aberrant apostrophe there. Alfie's indeed!

when pregnant with dd2 - we considered

Benjamin
Warwick/Warrick - okay cause we live in Aus
Caden

Dd1 has the following in her kindy class

Cameron
Riley
Brayden
Rafeal
Raul

the rest are girls

we're going with 'ethan thomas'
but i loved

jasper
lucas
nathan
jonathan
david