I have gotten some great help from this forum during past pregnancies, so I’m back. I’m 30 weeks pregnant with baby #8 - our fifth son! - and we really have no favorites this time. Naming boys has always been difficult for me, and turns out that naming four already has basically zapped all of my creativity. We even re-used an initial last time for boy #4 - something we have avoided up until that point.
We have three daughters and four sons, in this order:
Off your current list [name_m]Wilder[/name_m], [name_m]Wyatt[/name_m], and [name_m]Fielding[/name_m] all seem to fit nicely!
Some ideas:
[name_m]Thatcher[/name_m]
[name_m]Warren[/name_m]
[name_m]Forest[/name_m]/[name_m]Forrest[/name_m]
[name_m]Orson[/name_m]
[name_m]Maxfield[/name_m] (it’s an M, but fits in well and feels different enough from [name_f]Maya[/name_f])
[name_u]Rowan[/name_u]
[name_m]Turner[/name_m]
[name_m]Breccan[/name_m]
[name_m]Ferris[/name_m]
[name_m]Dashiell[/name_m]
[name_u]Torrey[/name_u]
[name_m]Holden[/name_m]
[name_m]Booker[/name_m]
[name_u]Guthrie[/name_u]
[name_m]Truman[/name_m]
[name_m]Prescott[/name_m]
[name_m]Redmond[/name_m]
Bumping for more help. I’m liking [name_m]Milo[/name_m] and [name_m]Theodore[/name_m] ([name_u]Theo[/name_u]/[name_u]Teddy[/name_u]).
I really like [name_m]Henry[/name_m], but it’s really popular right now. I can deal because it’s also very classic. But I need more names like [name_m]Henry[/name_m] that are not so popular.
I also like [name_m]Josef[/name_m]/[name_m]Joseph[/name_m] (NN [name_u]Joey[/name_u]), but same issue as with [name_m]Henry[/name_m] - classic (good) and popular (bad). Other names that could have [name_m]Joe[/name_m]/[name_u]Joey[/name_u] as nicknames?
[name_u]Joey[/name_u] could come from…
[name_m]Jonas[/name_m]
[name_m]Jove[/name_m]
[name_m]Joel[/name_m]
[name_m]Jovanni[/name_m]
[name_u]Jordan[/name_u]
I do like [name_m]Joel[/name_m] a lot. We haven’t used it because I have a cousin named [name_m]Joel[/name_m] that I’m not close to, and none of our other kids have family names. My cousin is fine, but how to use his name without naming after him?
And [name_m]Octavius[/name_m] is also on the list. We are into both numbers andLatin here. Our last son’s middle name is [name_m]Augustus[/name_m]. Our fifth son’s middle name is Five. Nicknames for [name_m]Octavius[/name_m]? I like [name_u]Tavi[/name_u] - but long or short a?
I like [name_m]Hayes[/name_m]! (I must be the only one, as I didn’t see anyone else suggesting it from your list, but I don’t mind…)
[name_m]Hayes[/name_m] is actually on my list if [name_u]Baby[/name_u] #3 is a boy. My husband isn’t totally on board, but I wouldn’t say it’s off the table.
My faves from your list are [name_m]Wilder[/name_m] and [name_u]Flynn[/name_u] but I also really like the suggestion someone else came up with: [name_m]Patrick[/name_m], which has always been one of my faves and fits nicely in with your ‘style’.
[name_m]How[/name_m] about [name_m]Jethro[/name_m] [name_m]Tavish[/name_m]? ([name_u]Tavi[/name_u] from [name_m]Octavian[/name_m]). [name_m]Tavish[/name_m] is cute, I think, and that combo is handsome, quirky, and daring all at once.
[name_m]Jethro[/name_m] Aught is kind of cute, too - like [name_m]Ott[/name_m], for eight…
[name_m]Jethro[/name_m] [name_m]Fielding[/name_m] is handsome as well. Good luck! You are a brave lady for having eight!!!
