Boy baby names

[JsmokeVR6]

so my wife and i are having our first child. we dont know the sex, but are set with plenty of agreed girl names. we can not agree on ANY boy names. i want something you either never known someone with or very few. i guess abnormal. i need some ideas from you guys, shes getting pissed i dont have anything other than these which are really the only ones i can think of i like.

Kyler
Roman

[JsmokeVR6]

oh yeah...........i already know "Jason" is the most awesome name ever, however i dont want a Jr.

[scandalous_cynce]

You're going to let Vortex name your baby??

[naturaldub]

Whats wrong with a normal name? William, Jacob, Brian, Johnathon, Alexander, Douglas, all shortenable with good nicknames.

[Spell Check Desk]

Kyler
Roman

Put down the crack pipe, sir.

[JsmokeVR6]

Put down the crack pipe, sir.

haha no crack pipe here. just looking for ideas.

[Papa Dras]

I am not up in arms like a lot of people with the new age Hollywood type names, but there is something nice about hearing someone name their kid a solid old school name. A friend of ours thought they were being creative and unique naming their kids Cash and Clavin and then actually got annoyed by it and named the latest Jacob. I hate calling their boy Clavin when he comes over, so I just call him Little C.

A name I had not heard of, but I do think it's cool is Bishop. My buddy just had a boy and named him that. Not old school and not weird.

[JsmokeVR6]

^^kind of do like Bishop

right now im in Jamison. call him Jamie

[Papa Dras]

Yeah, my daughter would have been named Bushmills or Basil Hayden.

[Spell Check Desk]

haha no crack pipe here. just looking for ideas.

if you keep coming up with crack-induced names like that, you're definitely smoking the crack pipe!

Give your kid a kre8ive name and they will hate you for it in the long run.

[GreenandChrome]

Aldous
Haphaestus
Prometheus
Trajan
Nero
Caligula
Coriolanus
Helvetica

[jnm2.0t]

Try something popular in another country, not so popular here, but still common enough to not be weird. We didn't do that consciously but our kid's name was #1 in the UK in 2011 but in the US:

2011	78
2010	88
2009	98
2008	118
2007	140
2006	173
2005	209
2004	229
2003	245
2002	268
2001	299
2000	305

cool site... http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/

[nobbyv]

Roman

Oddly enough, at my workplace of ~120, we have both a Roman and a Romano.

[GreenandChrome]

Oddly enough, at my workplace of ~120, we have both a Roman and a Romano.

But do you have a Greco on staff as well?

[moose82]

We're in the same boat not knowing the sex. We were originally going to go with Carter Jensen. My wife thought Carter was too preppy and I wanted to change the middle name to my dad's late brother's name. Now if it's a boy it's going to be Ethan Phillip.

We wanted a name you don't hear all the time, but not something so off the wall people couldn't pronounce it.

If it's a girl, she'll be Charlee Anna

Edit: looking at the SSA data, apparently Ethan is pretty popular. Oh well.

[16vracer]

We went with Soren Frederick (my first name) Anderson.
The wife and I are both Scandinavian so it fits. His big sisters name is Sophie Elyse(no meaning, we just liked the sound of it).

[FigureFive]

If we had a son we were going to name him after my maternal grandfather: Easten. We had two girls and are done, though.

[true story]

Named my son Maddox, cause we thought it was a pretty safe name. Can't believe how much people mess it up and call him Mad Ox. I guess we should have spelled it Maddex for all the idiots out there. I really liked Rhys for a boy, but the wife thought it was a girls name.

[prom king]

Gus

[Hurt]

dayquanda
shayquanda
rayquanda da durd
da boo boo

[jjcrt2]

I'm having my first baby with my gf and for a boy Logan for a girl zoey we had names.picked out before she was even pregnant

[dunhamjr]

^^kind of do like Bishop

right now im in Jamison. call him Jamie

how about you name your kid Jameson and call him Jameson.
why would you name a kid one thing and then never use that name?

my name is James. not Jim, Jimmy or Jim-bo. James.

our boy's name is Jackson. we call him Jackson. if... when he is old enough to decide he wants to be called something different like Jack, Jackie or JR... i am still gonna call him Jackson.

[JsmokeVR6]

how about you name your kid Jameson and call him Jameson.
why would you name a kid one thing and then never use that name?

my name is James. not Jim, Jimmy or Jim-bo. James.

our boy's name is Jackson. we call him Jackson. if... when he is old enough to decide he wants to be called something different like Jack, Jackie or JR... i am still gonna call him Jackson.

most people get nick names. my name is jason, most people call me jason, my mom always called me J. with name like Jackson, which i love but wife doesnt. Jax is a bad a** nick name.

looks like we have settled on Brayden anyways. no nick names with that.

[StayGold11]

Soren and Blaise are my boys names
Soren is named after Søren Kierkegaard
and Blaise is named after Blaise Pascal

[green meanie]

Brayden isn't a bad choice. I've heard it a lot before though. I thought that was one of the things you were leaning against.

[JsmokeVR6]

Brayden isn't a bad choice. I've heard it a lot before though. I thought that was one of the things you were leaning against.

it is, however maybe its because where i live. in my lines of work i meet tons of people. i have never met one, or know someone who named there kid that. so it's rare to me.

[PoorHouse]

^^kind of do like Bishop

right now im in Jamison. call him Jamie

Friends named their daughter Jamison. Initially I thought it was weird, now I like it.

We're in the same boat not knowing the sex. We were originally going to go with Carter Jensen. My wife thought Carter was too preppy and I wanted to change the middle name to my dad's late brother's name. Now if it's a boy it's going to be Ethan Phillip.

Carter is more preppy than Ethan? I would think the opposite.

how about you name your kid Jameson and call him Jameson.
why would you name a kid one thing and then never use that name?

my name is James. not Jim, Jimmy or Jim-bo. James.

our boy's name is Jackson. we call him Jackson. if... when he is old enough to decide he wants to be called something different like Jack, Jackie or JR... i am still gonna call him Jackson.

Lighten up James...

it is, however maybe its because where i live. in my lines of work i meet tons of people. i have never met one, or know someone who named there kid that. so it's rare to me.

Once you have a kid you'll see there are a bunch of Braydens and every variation of Aiden.

I don't know any adults with those names. Now that I have a kid it seems like there are dozens of

every variation.


Good luck OP, picking a name is hard.

We went with Duncan (my grandfather and my middle name) Robert (wife's dad).

We wanted names with connection to family. I always liked Duncan and he has Robert and all
its variations to fall back on if he hates it.

[dunhamjr]

Lighten up James...

meh.
had a bad week when i read it and nicknames have always been a bit annoying for me.

i just dont get the point of picking a name for your kid, then calling them something else.

if you like the name Jamie, name them Jamie, not James.
if you dont want a 'formal' name why use one?

example.
grandma wanted to name my dad Jack.
back when my dad was born Jack was actually a nickname for John.
the hospital tried to put John on the birth certificate.
grandma raised hell that his name was not John, it was Jack, and they would damn well put Jack on the birth cert... nickname or not...

Jack was put on the birth cert.

[PoorHouse]

Good question on how name changing/shortening ever got started.

I'm a Jacob but have always been called Jake - My parents knew they would call me Jake but went with

the formal "official" name.

Oddly, if I shorten or change my 2 year old's name in any way he stops and tells me

his name is Duncan, he adds the emphasis. He may be sensitive though as his cousin calls him Dunc-a-chunk.

He'll have to get used to it, I'm sure he's going to be "the donut man" or some variation all through
school.

[JsmokeVR6]

meh.
had a bad week when i read it and nicknames have always been a bit annoying for me.

i just dont get the point of picking a name for your kid, then calling them something else.

if you like the name Jamie, name them Jamie, not James.
if you dont want a 'formal' name why use one?

example.
grandma wanted to name my dad Jack.
back when my dad was born Jack was actually a nickname for John.
the hospital tried to put John on the birth certificate.
grandma raised hell that his name was not John, it was Jack, and they would damn well put Jack on the birth cert... nickname or not...

Jack was put on the birth cert.

i understand, met few people dont like using shortened names. out of curiosity though, do you call Volkswagen's Volkswagen's? or do you use VW or dub?

[moose82]

Carter is more preppy than Ethan? I would think the opposite.

Talk to my wife....

Moot point as we had a girl. So Charlee it is

[TTurboNegro]

My GF is 8+ mo pregnant with our first child..
We also had a hard time with names..I know how it is, u want something different but not too weird and not too common..
We went with Wyatt
Sounds tough & old school to me
Congrats and good luck by the way

[Adolfsatan]

Kolton

[Spell Check Desk]

looks like we have settled on Brayden anyways. no nick names with that.

oh dear god please for the love of baby jeebus don't name your kid Brayden! Do you know how many Aydens, Braydens and Jaidens (and Kaidens) are out there?

[JsmokeVR6]

oh dear god please for the love of baby jeebus don't name your kid Brayden! Do you know how many Aydens, Braydens and Jaidens (and Kaidens) are out there?

haha ive still havent met anyone around here with it. everyone around here is poppin out babies and naming them all jackson. lol

were at 31weeks. either going to be Brayden Alec or Brayden Alexander