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

[Familytree]

...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"

And Dominic - love that one.

Oh yes, Digby. Our Bertie was very nearly a Digby, but to be known as Digger. Might reinstate that one.

I also love Quinn, but vetoed by my H, too near old fashioned word for lady parts apparently.

Quentin. I like that, mostly because there was a very dishy boy at school called Quentin, known as Q. Oh what a big pash I had on him....

We've got a Freddie Spitfire and a Monty but Felix is a top name. It doesn't really matter what my boys are called because I always forget and use the dogs name by mistake.

i like jasper

and theo (but you have a leo in the family i see - not bad if not a brother)

felix nice

and hugo

Thaddeus
Somerset
Humphrey
Rollo
Lucian
Beaumont

emzickle

spookiness ended as I am from Devon!

love Lucian.
Otto
Theo
Percy
Edmund
Edward
I know a Hector and Atticus - lovely names, I think.
Laurence
Tobias

Barney
Dennis
Eric
Bertie
Archie
Hector

angus

i went through a phase of wanting ONLY names used in shakespeare plays for my children but dp flat out refused. However he gave in for ds2 who is called Lysander which i think is just so lovely.
Also liked:
Nathaniel, Othello, Horatio, Tybalt
and randomly
Bastien, constantine, zachariah and ds1 name noah
Oh i love name choosing!

I'm convinced my baby will be a boy as we can't agree on names for boys!
Have you tried this site? www.angelfire.com/id2/heathersnamepage/

It has lots of more unusual names and lists of little used, old fashioned, traditional names.

we have a gus and a moses (well before that bloomin paltrow woman stole it).
also like
gabriel
hugo
edward
edgar
ned
felix
gilbert

I like Gilbert too. Could be shortened to Gil or Bertie both of which I like.

Hugo is out DH has put his foot down again

There are nice old-fashioned unisex names too

Kay
Christy
Hilary
Kerry
Lawrence/Lawrie
Kim

Has anyone said Rafe already?

Glad to see Arthur featured here. DH and I were having problems with boys names when I was pregnant and finally agreed on Arthur. We had a girl...

ah now greeny, I have one of those unisex names on yr list and I have to say I have never liked the fact that it?s a man?s name as well (less common, but still).
Just as when I was a child i hated the fact that my short hair meant people often thought I was a little boy

My DP is called Sherwin. (Well that gives my identity away if anyone knows me!!!)

It's Anglo-Saxon for 'true friend'

gosh familytree - are you me? Just read your post about liking Gilbert - that's ds1's middle name. I think whatever you choose - I'm going to like your new baby's name !

Hey Wilbur, great minds and all that!

All of our names are on here- Samuel Stirling and Harold. How about DS1's middle name, Godfrey? That's cool (and also my maiden name)

Other names I like are Rigby, Christopher, Christian and William.

Angus
Claude
Morris
Murray
Reuben
Rufus
Gabriel
Isaac
Inigo
Jasper
Jonah
Milligan

nad Mortimer

Familytree ...

I LOVE old fashioned names

Someone I know VERY WELL has a DS called Edward, shortened to Teddy as a baby but now at 6 is often called Ted ...
IYSWIM??????

Friends of mine with old fashioned boy's names have:
Stanley
Archibald (Archie)
Freddie

I used to teach an Augustus (Gus), a Gabriel, a Theo (pronounced Tayo - they were German), a Jaspar and an Oscar ... Love all of those too ...