Nameless baby help!!

[Belle]

Coach Beth Wrote:

> Personally, I like short, simple boys names - Tom,

> Sam, Ollie, Elliot, Ben, Jake

>

Me too - but it's a bit ridic in our house now as my two sons, and husband, each have 3 letter monosyllabic names - I quite often get them mixed up :-$

[Coach Beth]

Other ideas could be:

Art (Art Pepper - jazz musician) is a sort of unusual name over here in the UK and goes nicely with Archie. A friends grandchild is called Che if you'd like that revolutionary feel.

Django (Django Rienhart) for a cool jazz effect? Woody (Woodie Guthrie - folk hero, Woody Shaw - jazz trumpeter) is a jazz/arty name too.

Grayson (Grayson Perry - artist) has a distinguished feel - Gray would be a nice nickname.

[Petrichor]

Stan? Arlo?

[Vickster]

My son is Theo, we also had Dylan and Oscar on the list. I liked Jasper but husband said no, apparently he considers it a dog's name! I also really like Fraser and Heath is fab.

[Mrs TP]

I know an adult Heathcliff (35-40?), who we call Heath and is in your original post - go for it.

As for a middle name depends on your surname and do you really need a middle name or would you like two middle names?

Think about the initials and what they might spell.

My 7yr old daughter is watching me type this and likes George and Jacob. Our cat is called Trevor and we love this retro name.

Names are sort of v. important but also not as he will bring his own personality to whatever name and it is the most fun frivolous part of being a parent so go for whatever you want.

I have 3 beautiful girls but the most fav boys name we ever agreed on was Jeremy or Johnathan James Edward Surname.

Have fun being creative and enjoy your little one whatever.

[SBot]

What does your toddler like? Maybe says the names to him, see what reaction you get!!

[sophiechristophy]

Dustin.

[lillyanginger]

Dexter - really like the sound of that.

[hellosailor]

Huxley

[nylonmeals]

Love this thread!

Have you named the little one yet?

We have two boys - Felix Louis Arthur and Eugene Hector. We wanted something slightly different but not too out there. But all of them work with your surname :-)

Good luck x

[Growlybear]

Even nowadays children still get bullied for having unusual or strange names, so I think it's really important to bear that in mind. When we chose names for our daughter we were also very careful to avoid names with initials which could spell a word - I was teased regularly as a child for the word that my initials spelt out.

[givemecake]

I love the name Ambrose...

[teagan]

My husband is called Jago, good name. he always gets..where is that from? I think that it is Cornish for James. That's what I tell people anyway.

My son is called Jed james Lancelot!

I like the name Orlando and also Orson. If I had another boy I would call him Luke.

Did you decide yet?

When you register him you get a year to change the name by just going back to the registry office. We did that with my son as we originally called him James Ed so that he could be called 'Jed' but after a year we decided that he could carry off just Jed! So we went back and changed it.

[GSJ57]

I have a Luke! Always loved the name and was lucky enough to be able to use it!

[Otta]

We have 2 girls, but boys names we had decided on were

Issak (Izzy)

Emanuel (Manny)

Jonathan

Jonathan was for more personal reasons. My favourite was Manny. (although I did like Izzy for the Guns N' Roses connection)

[neilly1973]

what is he called??

[matt300]

Joseph

Richard

[Anna27]

Good to know that we can change it if we need to, I had no idea you had up to a year!!

Still no closer, we don't even really discuss it because were so busy with the boys, I can recommend naming your children asap because it gets harder the longer we leave it.

Names I Like, Arthur, Orlando, Ralph, Heath (but I worry about the SE London accent being applied and it sounding more like eath/Keith!! like zack but not sure Zack Watts works. Also Fred, Flynn??

Thanks everyone x

[snowboarder]

One of my boys is Zach and I love it. He's Zachary about 50% of the time...

Like Findley/Finn and Flynn.

[BB100]

This is a great thread. You might find Arthur a bit of a mouthful if you already have an Archie. I wouldn't worry too much about unusual names, there are very few 'usual' names at school these days and all with odd spellings. Out of your list I prefer Zach too - then you will have an A to Z!

I love Jude and Joshua too. Actually Archie and Josh sound quite good together. Hope you decide soon....

[snowboarder]

Thought of some more that were on our list for baby 2 earlier in the year (having an insomnia moment!): Nathaniel, Cyrus/sirus, lawrie, Kester, Cassius

We chose one of these!

Can't believe baby is 7 wks old!! Do you just call him baby atm?!?

[crystal7]

Love Felix and Cassius. We also liked Sasha and Rowan- Ro for short. I think it's hard to think of nice boys names that are different without being too out there. Wouldn't worry about teasing at sch. I'm a teacher and haven't ever noticed chn being picked on because of a name. Maybe it sarts in secondary school though.

[new mother]

Tom, Hugh, Oliver, William, Robert, Charles, Edward, Rupert, Henry?

Any decision yet?!

[The Nappy Lady]

My theory is that it's hard to find a name that works for a baby, a boy and finally a MAN. I don't know why this is LOL, but I'm so glad we had 2 girls, as I found girls names much easier to decide upon!

Zack was one I loved but hubby banned for some reason!

[Otta]

Zack just makes me think of "Saved by the bell"... Ah, I used to well fancy Kelly when I were a lad.