akmommy Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 We have a Ryker and know a Norrick, Caid, Judah, and a Garrett. I absolutely love the name Atticus. I'd never read To Kill a Mockingbird until after DS was born or he probably would have been a Atticus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Grayson (NN Gray) Rhys (Welsh spelling -- pronounced Reece) Quinn, I like Quinton (different spellings) Spencer Josiah Dane Wyatt Joel Finn or Finnian Tiernan Griffin Rory Asher I like these names out of the ones that someone else liked... :-) Carrie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtroad Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 One piece of advice from a good friend.... Play this game with the names that are liked..... Ask a group of people to say the first thing that pops into their head when you mention the NAME. EX... say WYATT... people often say Earp Ex... say Sydney... people often say Australia.... This might help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I know a Ring. What about Hector? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennefer@SSA Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 My boys' names are Thatcher, Haddon and Beckett. My dh has an unusual name and he loved that growing up. He wanted his boys to have unique names too - unlike mine...Jennefer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarlaS Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Parker Rory Gunther Wade Maury Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly in FL Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I'm not sure how "different" these are...but, Miles, Scott, Wyant, Trace, Lance, Jade, Graham, Dean, Ivy, Mason, Neil, Oliver. ~Holly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristusG Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 My DD was getting a haircut a few months ago and a little boy and his grandfather walked in. The grandfather called him Gamble. I really liked it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawana Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 How about Quentin? I have a cousin by that name. Haven't heard of any others. Lawana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Katia Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 How about Quentin? I have a cousin by that name. Haven't heard of any others. Lawana This reminds me of the soap opera Dark Shadows that I used to watch as a little kid; Quentin was the vampire, LOL. :001_smile: Guess that dates me.:D Anyhow, I like: Dylan (pronounced Dillon) Kent Dustin Emery Clarke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starr Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 She certainly has a list of names now! :) Katia, I haven't thought about Dark Shadows for a long, long time. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMamaBird Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I've always like the name Corbin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patchfire Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 My favorite boy name is Cole; dh hates it, so it will never gets used. Ds's middle name is Sirius. I have a friend whose son is Neo. (As an aside, if Neo'd been a girl, she'd've been Bellatrix.) When I was pg with dd2, we talked about Thrace and Orion both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendi Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Old Surnames make great boy names.... Flannigan, Hannity, Bailey, Kaylor, Mayner, Lee, Jackson, Smith, etc. Look at the names of families in the babies family tree & draw inspiration. I love Angus for a boy but was never brave enough to use it. Also love Duncan & Colin... but I have an ancestry that ties to Scotland. These aren't heard on every corner but aren't as "different" as Dwizzle. Oh, several nice young men in our area are named WILSON. My great-great-grandfather was named Angus Duncan. Scottish, of course. Wendi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn in OH Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 My 8 year old is named Fionn. Fionn mac Cumhaill (Irish pronunciation: [ˈfʲin̪ˠ mˠak ˈkuːw̃əːlʲ], English: /ˈfɪn mə ˈkuːl/) (earlier Finn or Find mac Cumail or mac Umaill, later Anglicised to Finn McCool) was a mythical hunter-warrior of Irish mythology, occurring also in the mythologies of Scotland and the Isle of Man. The stories of Fionn and his followers, the Fianna, form the Fenian cycle or Fiannaidheacht, much of it supposedly narrated by Fionn's son, the poet OisÃn. Ewan was on the list for our youngest, but Dad vetoed it. He got Owen instead. I still like Ewan. Liam is another favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah CB Posted July 1, 2009 Author Share Posted July 1, 2009 We have a 12yo Harper across the street. He's a sweetheart, and it's a great name. (But I have a dd named Flannery, so Harper is probably out for us, boy *or* girl.) I don't think we can do Harper as our PM is Stephen Harper. It would be like naming a child Obama :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helena Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 How about Cody, Clint or Cash? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlockOfSillies Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I don't really like the name Ephraim, but I think it's one of those old-fashioned boy names that's coming back into style, perhaps because the likelihood that it will be girlified is pretty low. Once people start naming their dds with boys' names, the parents of boys tend to start looking for more masculine names. There are at least five Ephraim Bacons in my family tree. It's a very... colonial name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgilli3 Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 These are some of the names that were on our short list when I was pregnant with #3 ( which was a girl...lol) * Harper * Hudson * Harvey * Jackson * Finn * Miller * Harrison * Griffin * Campbell * Mason * Cooper * Logan * Tyne * Baxter * Sultan * Callum * Cailin * Bayley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzybearybake Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I have sons named Keir (sounds like ear) and Tristan. I also liked Kaelan, Aidan, Trentan, and Skylar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saille Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 We are pregnant and if we have a boy his name will be Graeme (British spelling of Graham) I have a Graeme! (Insert silly virtual high-five here...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saille Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Toss the baby names book and pull out a good old atlas instead. Surely there will be all kinds of old town and city names that are terrific name possibilities. Then they can enjoy a family vacation! A friend of ours named her son after an old French town that her dh drove by often on his work commute. It's unusual and appreciated by those who hear it. Also, once she finds one that sounds good, she should look up the meaning of the name... wouldn't want a cool-sounding name to backfire because it has an undesirable meaning. Yes, but avoid naming a child after the place of conception, if at all possible. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blossom'sGirl Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Chase. All my other boys have very popular names and there is always at least one other kid on their teams with the same name. I like original names as long as they don't get too crazy phonetically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dooley Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 My son's named Kellen. Love it. Watched a movie when he was little, about an Irish family, and one of the boys was named Malike (mal-uh-kee), and of course, loved that too. BTW, I also like Ilishe (Irish, girls, eye-lish). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalicoKat Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 friends of ours named their son Steel, as in Remington Steele. It's a great name for a boy. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammyla Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I knew a guy named Cassimer years ago and we called him Cass. He was always the cool guy with the cool name in school;). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabetika Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 "I have a Graeme! (Insert silly virtual high-five here...) " I'm high-fiving back! Woo-hoo!! :lol: Do you often have to spell it or prounounce it for people? Most of the time when I mention this name, people want me to say it twice. I've never known any Graeme's, or Sullivan's, which is my other favorite boy's name. I think I'm destined to name kids with "What was that?" names. My older dd is Kenzie, which most people hear as "Mackenzie," and my younger is Piper, which people hear as all kinds of things, from "Paper" to "Hyper." Now honestly, who would NAME a kid HYPER?!!:tongue_smilie: I loooooooove this thread - so many fabulous names!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loupelou Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Two of my brother's are Silas & Jonah, unusual but nice. My sisters have used surnames for theirs: Avery, Jackson, Morgan, & Wynne What a list she'll have from the looks of things baby names have quite a following!:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katemary63 Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Our daughter, ClaireAnna, was going to be Josiah James, if she was a boy. Not too unusual but I love it. ClaireAnna is a combination of my DH's grandmother's names: Clara and Anna. Her middle name is mine - Marie. So she is named after 3 people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabrizia Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I'll admit to not having read all the posts. DH and I like uncommon names, but names that have been heard of before. Some of the names on our boy's list include: Desmond (DS' name) Graeme/Graham (would have likely been DD's name if she was a boy) Galen Emmett Elias Alastair Everett Byron Augustus/August Beckett Callum Finnegan Gareth Griffith/Griffin Phineas Broderick Eamon Sullivan Arthur Fergus Conall Caspian Tavish Archer Hamish Henry Ronan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RegGuheert Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Reginald! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay in Cal Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I have a Corwin as well... my boys are Corwin Drew and Kieran Danger. Other boys names I like: Brand, Bleys, Gwyddion, Cirroc, Tor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saille Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 "I have a Graeme! (Insert silly virtual high-five here...) " I'm high-fiving back! Woo-hoo!! :lol: Do you often have to spell it or prounounce it for people? I do, but I don't much care. Bookish sorts recognize it because of the author Graeme Base. We did the family name thing with our oldest, but I'm glad I didn't with the other two...looking at my family tree now, the names I like the best are the unusual ones. It can be boring climbing through six generations of Johns, Jameses and Williams. Besides, since all three of our children wound up with old English names, (Will, Rosemary, Graeme), they still dovetail. I only wish we'd thought to nickname my oldest Liam while he was small and agreeable. My dh goes by Bill, and I do get sick of the wrong person yelling, "What?" when I call. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheBrink Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 My 2 year olds name is Atticus (and we got all sorts of compliments on his name) and we are thinking of naming our due-in-October son Ephraim. He's 2 already?? I remember when you were considering his name! I'm sure that was just 6 months ago! Anyway, unique boy names...Hmmmm. Location names can be different, if you refrain from using the popular ones (like Austin, London, and Paris). Or, last names of people in the family tree. Or, use royal titles as a first name (Baron, Caesar, etc.) HTH a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraceinMD Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Well, my dh (an archaeology/history major) *really* wanted to name our son after the great Hittite king, Suppiluliuma (pronounced, as best I can tell, 'Shu pil ooli oomash'). I said, "Great thinking, honey. No." The funny thing is, though, that 10 years later, dh met the husband of someone he works with - they got to talking, and it turned out that this man (an archaeologist/anthropologist) *really* wanted to name his son after the great Hittite king, Suppiluliuma. Dh's colleague's wife apparently said, "Great thinking, honey. No." So, your sister could stand with Sup....'s mother as the only other woman in history to allow such a thing! (Well, there was also a Sup... II, but your sis would still be in a VERY exclusive club!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirstenH Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Some I like: Leo, Dane, Finn, Fisher, Silas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 I liked Caedmon, or Griflet, but never got to use 'em. :) I have a friend who named her son "Olórin" (Gandalf's elvish name). Another friend recently named her youngest "Zen". I've known several Dantes, Romeos and Ashers. Do you know if your friend and/or her son has any trouble with people understanding the accent mark and actually using it? DD has a Tolkien-Elvish name, and it properly has an accent on the first syllable, but it tends to get left off when people type it. I've taught DD to include it when she writes her name, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lahmeh Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 My son is named "Kessler Davis". :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom2boys Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 I have a friend who named her son Rhett. I also like Colin, you don't hear it much in the US. . Colin is very common here in the Midwest. I guess unusualness depends on where you live. :) Some unusual names I really like are: Anderson, Wyatt, Wilson, Clayton, and Grayson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runamuk Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Our son's name is Malcolm (a family name) and we've had many comments on how unusual it is. We also considered Angus (another family name), Oliver, and Oscar. My sister named her boys Wesley, Maxwell and Owen. When we were stationed at Camp Lejuene, I got used to hearing unusual boy names like Diesel, Rocket, Gunner (not Gunnar), and Semper (as in Semper Fidelis). One of my husband's coworkers named his children after Marine Corps bases and battles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr8tcook Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 How about, Sebastian, Elliott, Caspian, or Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshyne Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 If our lil one is a boy, he will be named Cassian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Hen Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Here are a couple I didn't see in the list: Angus --- we met an Angus on a hiking trail in the Teton's last year, quite different. Then there's Calvin and Dexter, my niece's boys names --- I just think of Calvin jeans and Dexter shoes whenever I hear their names. Then my nephew had a son born a few days PRIOR to Michael Jackson's death. The baby was already named Jackson ----- hmm, I wonder how many folks are going to be asking him if he was named after MJ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamagistra Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 One of my favorite standout names is Rigel, from the star in the constellation Orion. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFwife Claire Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 LOL, we have an Anna Claire, named after 2 great-grandmas (on my side), as well as my dh's mother (who is Ann)! And of course, my name is Claire too, so it really worked out as a great name for us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Dominion Heather Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 (edited) I always liked the boys names Jude Julian I have a Jude. : ) He was very close to being Julian, which I also love, but I have a crazy uncle Julian... So dh was not in favor of that one! I've got a London and a Ransom as well for middle names. Out of all the names we have chosen, Ransom is probably my favorite. Edited July 10, 2009 by Old Dominion Heather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katemary63 Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 :DI completely forgot how unusual my own DH's name is! He is Tedrick! We have never met another. I wonder if he is the only one with Tedrick as a first name. I have heard of it as a last name, though not met anyone with that either. He was called Teddy as a boy but now goes by Ted. I just love it and hope someday to have a grandson with that name. I am totally willing to bribe my kids to do it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renee in NC Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Cayden Jaxson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacey in MA Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 I love thinking of baby names! Here's a few that crossed my mind when we named our last (who is a boy): Cyrus (think Cyrus the Great - my daughter ended up using this one for her snake Webkinz instead - ha!) Galen ("Chief" on Battlestar Gallactica - his character first name was actually Galen. The meaning has something to do with a medieval medical healer scientist guy - can't remember. DH was wondering if it sounded too much like "Gay" and then the kid would be teased when older. It really grew on me though, and almost made it to the top of the list!) Duncan - means darked skinned warrior Auric - means golden Merrick - means something like warrior god of the sea; Oh there were more! I can't remember now. He's 2 and it seems like so long ago! Good luck to your sister (inlaw??)! And to you, auntie! :-) - Stacey in MA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacey in MA Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 I once knew a little boy named D'Artagnan (pronounced Dar tan yan). The name is made famous from the Three Musketeers - he was one of 'em. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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