OT - Need original baby boy name...

[MickQuinn]

Our ds is Quinn Julien. Quinn was my great grandmother's maiden name and Julien is my grandfather-in- law's first name (French- Canadian). We really debated about the name, but it suits our son and is a wonderful tribute to his grandparents.


As a teacher, please, please, please consider the pronunciation of a name you give your child. Every year there is at least one name where the pronunciation just doesn't match the spelling and the poor kid is embarrassed over and over.

 

[Mermanaid]

I'm a little partial to our DS's name - Truett (or you can spell Truitt). Different but not too out there. I've only ever heard of one other!

 

[CapnJacksGirl]

My oldest's name is Declan. It's old Irish - an 11th century saint.

I know what you mean about the Aidens. In Declan's preschool class, there are only six boys and there is an Aiden, a Caden, a Jayden, and a Hayden! It must be a nightmare for his teachers!

 

[bowlingchicaroo]

kyler
colton
casen
owen

not sure how popular these names are, but thought i would share...

 

[Delilah1310]

What about Conner (or Connor)?
Also know a little boy named Sawyer that I think is a pretty cute, original name.

 

[mommy*RN]

Thank you so much for all these suggestions! There are quite a few great options I can discuss with DH now. Thank you!!

Here are some that I like:
Mason
Parker (my favorite!!)
Carson
Cason
Rylan (my other favorite)

My current youngest is a Rylan. I love his name .

My oldest's name is Declan. It's old Irish - an 11th century saint.

I know what you mean about the Aidens. In Declan's preschool class, there are only six boys and there is an Aiden, a Caden, a Jayden, and a Hayden! It must be a nightmare for his teachers!

I love, love, love the name Declan and it was on my list. DH poo poo'd it. Apparently he has NO taste. I'm still keeping it in the game though.

 

[ireland_nicole]

Collum, Caleb, Jonah, Niall, Euen, Collin, Brendan

 

[kkmcan]

My ds's name is Bennett. We've only ever heard of one other Bennett. We really liked the name Ben but didn't want a Benjamin so we went with Bennett.

 

[Erica09M]

Don't know if you'll like any of these, but these are my favorite boy names:

Asher, Anderson, Beckett, Brooklyn (yes, I know LOL), Colin, Callum, Cullen, Drake, Elliot, Elijah, Ezra, Griffin, Halen, Jude, Kai, Kellan, Keiran, Lane, Liam, Lincoln, Lachlan, Madden, Nolan, Noah, Owen, Parker, Page, Reese/Rhys, Sebastian, Stellan, Wesley, Xavier

 

[MomNeedsVacay]

My ds's name is Bennett. We've only ever heard of one other Bennett. We really liked the name Ben but didn't want a Benjamin so we went with Bennett.

My DS is also Bennett---ha! now you know of two!

An Irish name that I wanted to use, but DH vetoed b/c it was too "Irishy" was Eammon (pronounced Ay-men) ..I loved it and there is a fish and chips joint in town named Eammon's

 

[Malacai]

I have a Mason and a Maddox

Other names I liked/considered:
Marcus
Matteo
Marlon
Micah
Marcel
Myles

 

[luckey-lasvegas]

If DD had been a boy her name would have been Desmond Edward
Desi for short.

I also like Chaz and a friend of mine named his son Dash, like in the Incredibles.

 

[Colleen27]

We have a Sebastian and our boy names that we didn't use when I was pregnant with our girls were Kenneth and Sawyer. None of them are very common these days, but they aren't unusual enough to be constantly misspelled or mispronounced either.

 

[buffalogirl]

My favorite boy's name is Aaron . It's biblical and traditional and not overly popular.

 

[mjkacmom]

My oldest's name is Declan. It's old Irish - an 11th century saint.

I know what you mean about the Aidens. In Declan's preschool class, there are only six boys and there is an Aiden, a Caden, a Jayden, and a Hayden! It must be a nightmare for his teachers!

We have lots of Declan's and Dante's here - everyone is either Irish, Italian, or both!

 

[Julie*]

My son's name is Myles Emery. Myles is #213 in popularity according the social security website. Obviously, I love the name and we only know 2 other Myles and both spell it Miles.
Emery is a family name. It's my DH and his fathers middle name and DH's fathers maternal grandmothers maiden name.

 

[crysplefty]

When I heard Sarah Palin's son's name, Trygg, I fell in love with it. So much that I put it on our list of names when I found out I was pregnant with baby number 3. We found out two weeks ago we are having a boy, but my husband doesn't like the name Trygg. We agreed to name him Austin Jacob. We already have a son named Cameron Michael and a daughter named Macy Lynn, so I too like unique names. Some of the other unique boy names I had on my list were Blaine, Gavin, and Ryder.

 

[BigEeyore]

Nathan (Nate - what we were going to go with if we had a boy)
Parker
Gavin
Anderson

Congrats BTW!

 

[canadianjovigirl]

I love different and unique names, but never got to use any of my boy choices as i had girls and our son was adopted and all ready named.....my boy choices were and still are:

Remington - Remi for short
Memphis
Roman
Drayton

I have had friends each use the above names once, but dont recall hearing to many by those names..........

 

[my3sons77]

My boys names are:

James (Jimmy) - Named after my husbands father
Jonathan - Has my dads middle name
Jacob - Middle name is Andrew