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Another boys name thread-with a difference....

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Familytree · 14/08/2006 13:49

...well I think so anyway but I would say that as I need some responses!

We're having a boy and would like some suggestions for names but we're quite fussy in so far as we don't like modern names and would prefer more old fashioned/trad names that aren't used very much IYKWIM. In our immediate family the names we already have are:

Miles
Theodore
Kit
Henry
Dylan
Frank (Francis)
Oscar
Leo

Anyone?
The only one we can think of are Felix and Caspar but they don't make me go "yes! That's it"

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Familytree · 14/08/2006 15:32

Mind you, our son may end up being a geri-curled dustman anyway.

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CountessDracula · 14/08/2006 15:33

he will if you call him Lenny

(that was a joke btw of course if you want to call your child Condom Orangutan you are free so to do)

tortoiseshell · 14/08/2006 15:34

Abraham
Aidan
Colum
Solomon
Noah
Zechariah (Zack)
or if you're brave
Hieronymus
Ignatius
Icarus

Norah · 14/08/2006 15:34

Condom Orangutan - now I'm liking that CD......

Wilbur · 14/08/2006 15:37

Spooky familytree - the two names you've put at the end of your first post are those of my ds2 and his cousin (they are exactly the same age, 2 weeks apart). And my ds1 is in your first list! I think you and I must like the same names so here are my also rans which I love:

Edgar
Dexter
Laurence
Alfred
Jasper

sancerre · 14/08/2006 15:38

Another vote for Jasper here - great name imo

Phineas (Phin or Fin)
Lucas
Morgan

sancerre · 14/08/2006 15:44

Orlando

cupcakes · 14/08/2006 16:29

Laurence
Archibald
Harold
Algernon
Earnest
Frederick
Charles
Cecil
Percival
Walter
Montgomery
Edgar
Gerald
Horace
Nathaniel
Oliver

Ptolemy?

mummydoc · 14/08/2006 16:50

ooh love ptolomey ( he is dishy restoration/ historic building cahppy on tv) , loved the name but had 2 dds. we also thought about bartholomew which isn't american as i thought but apparently an old english name and the traditional shortening is Tolley not bart - we loved that also!

bigfatbump · 14/08/2006 16:50

Haydn?

southeastastra · 14/08/2006 16:52

bart

TambaTheDragonSlayer · 14/08/2006 16:55

Jonathan - Traditonal, Simple and Beautiful. What more could you want

stingray · 14/08/2006 17:26

what about sidney?

sancerre · 14/08/2006 17:39

anyone said Tobias?

emzickle · 14/08/2006 18:22

Hugo
Jasper (instead of Casper)

emzickle · 14/08/2006 18:22

Oh yeah - before we found out baby is a girlie one, we had chosen Basil?

cece · 14/08/2006 18:42

Where I grew up wasps were called Jaspers.

emzickle · 14/08/2006 18:43

my DH says that...

cece · 14/08/2006 18:43

Laurence

emzickle · 14/08/2006 18:49

fuck me that's Dh's name

now you're scaring me

cece · 14/08/2006 18:50

OH I don't know you honest!

Is he from the West Country????

emzickle · 14/08/2006 18:58

born in Whiltshire...

you have properly scared me and Im home alone

lapsedrunner · 14/08/2006 19:01

No one has mentioned John yet....ds is John Edward..

southeastastra · 14/08/2006 19:04

lurking with interest here at the spooky thread

maretta · 14/08/2006 19:21

We have an Albert too Spudballoo. It's a great name.
I also like,
Freddy
Stanley
Arthur

How about Walter. You don't get too many of them.