Anybody heard any good baby boys names.

SugarSpun

Kai is quite a common German name.

We named our daughter Molly after a relative and had to show proof that it was a real name in our country of origin

Guinea_2

Our little boy is called Johnathan. We added the H in which some people thought was unusual, although someone said that it was the old fashioned way of spelling it. We just liked the name and liked the spelling that we chose!
He WAS going to be William George, Charles James or Noah but they just weren't right for him!
A girl was going to be Isabel Sophia, although since having Johnathan we have heard a lot of baby girls being called Isabel and would now not choose that name.
We wanted a traditional name, although one that was not common. It was very hard to choose names as I am a teacher and have taught many children. I could always think of a story about each name, although I have NEVER taught a Johnathan!!

Counting_Pennies_2

I haven't had a chance to read the other responses yet, but I heard this name a few years after I had named my son and I wish I had called my son Xander.

It is short for Alexander. So I would have christened him the full name and shortened it for the rest of the time.

hth

kafkathecat

Some of the names we considered were Kim/Cymbeline, Aneirin, Keir, Taliesin, Killian, River, Dylan, Dante.
We chose one of them.

peachyprice

Counting_Pennies wrote: »

I haven't had a chance to read the other responses yet, but I heard this name a few years after I had named my son and I wish I had called my son Xander.

It is short for Alexander. So I would have christened him the full name and shortened it for the rest of the time.

hth

Probably just as well you didn't as it's pretty common now, along with Xavier.:D

BitterAndTwisted

Counting_Pennies wrote: »

I haven't had a chance to read the other responses yet, but I heard this name a few years after I had named my son and I wish I had called my son Xander.

It is short for Alexander. So I would have christened him the full name and shortened it for the rest of the time.

hth

Unless you lived in Scotland where Alexander is often shortened to Sandy. Which would make our American friends smirk because that's always a girl's name there.

Sometimes you just can't win whatever you choose

sal-ad_daze

Interesting thread!
My son and his gf had great fun choosing their daughters' name, she came up with RC Saint's names and he countered with Sci-fi names!
She liked Jocelyn but I asked them to think again, I was concerned that if she took after ds (who is tall and skinny) she would inevitably be nicknamed 'Joss - stick'. Up until she was born they didn't have a first name, her middle names were her mum's confirmation name and her maternal grandmother's name but no first name; she was born in the evening so ds suggested Eve and there you go! It really suits her.

Just have a look at the influences around when you are choosing your name, film stars, singing stars, soap stars - soap babies, it seems everytime a baby is born in 'soapland' the name given becomes increasingly popular.

In my area Callum, Connor, Rhys, Jake, Charlie all seem very popular.

Princess_kate

I have a brand new nephew, born on monday called Zachariah, to be known as Zach, lovely name & really suits him!

susan1105

I have the boring surname Smith and live in Liverpool where everyones names seems to be shortened so I have

Aaron James (fathers middle name)
Toby John (my dads middle name)
Leo Francis (no idea how we came up with this one)

First names cant get shortened and with our surname seem to work out ok my name is one of the third most common names in the country and hate that.

susan

tankgirl1

Haven't read the whole thread, but my lil boys sunday name is Zacharias William *******
We call him Zach for short, but that is so so often spelt wrong! Zac, Zak, Zack
NO - Its short for ZACHarias, so the shortened spelling is Zach! lol

I must admist I thought about how his name would sound if he was ever ;
a - politician
b - tv presenter
c - respected peer in his field
d - at school! how many of that name would be in his class!?

etc etc, and to me, Zacharias William covered all the bases