why r boys names so hard?

[nadinetd]

im really struggling to come up with a boys name, we like frankie and alfie anyone think of any more?

It took us forever to choose, to the extent i'd have felt hard done by if we'd had girls! Ds1's name came from a keyring in the end!

Alfie's nice, but there's quite alot around now (she says trying to be tactful).

am struggling also with boys , have loads for a girl but not many for a boy, we have a Ben but want something a litlle different next time but not TOO different
Like Noah

see, lockets likes it too

Found it fairly easy, but then I very specifically wanted a simple, English name with a long history. Names I considered included George, Charles, John and William. I chose another one in that vein in the end.
My only regret is that I didn't choose a family name (Charles, Thomas, John or Joseph) as a middle name. I know firmly believe that all middle names should be family names.

Oh, and I disapprove of giving nicknames as names - have to give the full name. Actually, I would have liked to give Christopher as a middle name too.

If dd had turned out to be ds she might have been Angus (Gus) or Gilbert (Gil). We have an Oliver (of which there are now gazillions).

am with Aloha on the Trad English names front - John, James, Edward, Benjamin etc are all great names as they have obvious diminuitives (Johnny, Jimmy, Eddie) for babies, cool abbreviations (Jim, Ed, Ben) for teenagers and sufficient gravitas for when they're chairmen of the board / called to the Bar etc.

Frankie and Alfie are indeed cute for a small boy, but do consider giving them the full version in case they become a High Court judge or similar...

Funny we having the same probelm but with girls names, as if we have a boy this time DH wants to name after his father which i don't mind as his DF has no family and Robert is a nice name.

As for girls names dd only has the name she has as it was the only one we could agree on, DH did mention that if we have a girl we could call her by our second choice from last time, but i don't like it anymore so it just as well it was not our first choice.

We are really struggling this time round as well. We already have a DS (Max) and I'm 19 wks pg with our second DS.

There is only one name that we agree on, and goes with our surname (James) so that will probably be the one, but that is the extent of my short list. My cousin is due 8 weeks before me and on the off-chance they have a James I have no plan B!!! My DS's middle names are / will be their Grandfathers names (Henry and Andrew)

But I find boys names definately harder than girls. If this LO was a girl we'd have had about 5 names to chose from.

The trouble with boys names is that there is a samller pool that is used more frequently. So it's difficult to avoid already knowing someone with that name. Of teh conventional non-made-up names variety, I mean.

ooh lockets i love Kit for a boy, short for Christopher I think isn't it?

Jed is soo cool

I also gave my 2nd a shortened version of a longer name. Did consider giving the full version but didn't because I specifically don't like one of the other shortened options of that name.

I found boy's names much easy to decide on that girl's names when I was looking.

We had chosen Oliver Joseph had DD been a boy.

Other names I like, although not all I would go with for various reasons:
Jack
Harry
Thomas
William
Samuel
Caleb
Joseph
Edward
Samuel

same here TInker - I hate the long version of DS's name, sounds completely different

should have asid = he has the shortened version on his birth cert, much to mIL's dismay (the ponce)

totally agree

had loads of girls' names lined up

but apparently tis another

may use ds1's middle name as ds2's name - shouldn't have blown both of my favourite names on ds1 it appears...

another boy

I like Kit, that's a good one. Had DD been a boy, she would have been Andrew, shortened to Drew instead of Andy. I think Tinker's right that the boys' name pool is smaller, plus it seemed to me that there was a pile of very conventional names at one end, a pile of totally whacky stuff at the other, and not as much middle ground as with girls' names.

Alfie I love
Toby
James
Elijah
Noah
Oliver
Joe
Albert (Albie, Bertie)
Edward (Ned, Ted)

tutter, some friends of ours did that. They have a Jaspar Dominic, and a Dominic something (can't remember)...I think its cool, and the boys like it.