Boys' names like: [I just can't help myself]

I recently decided I couldn’t look at Boys’ names because girls are hard enough and I do love my boys’ list and have more that I genuinely LOVE than I could ever use.

But… here we are.

What are some more names like:
[name_m]Ulysses[/name_m] “Ulyss”
[name_m]Ferdinand[/name_m] “[name_m]Ferdie[/name_m]”
[name_m]Lucien[/name_m]
[name_m]Alexander[/name_m] “[name_u]Sasha[/name_u]”
[name_m]Raphael[/name_m], “Raph”
[name_m]Gawain[/name_m]
[name_m]Corentin[/name_m]
[name_u]Oberon[/name_u]
Rubeus

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Ulysses “wrathful” - [name_u]Killian[/name_u] “war strife”

Lucien “light” - [name_m]Elio[/name_m] “[name_f]Sun[/name_f]”

Angelus
[name_u]Corbin[/name_u]
[name_m]Donovan[/name_m]
[name_m]Emmanuel[/name_m]
[name_u]Gabriel[/name_u]
[name_m]Jacob[/name_m]
[name_u]Lincoln[/name_u]
[name_u]Remington[/name_u]
[name_m]Sebastian[/name_m]

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Lorenzo
[name_m]Almanzo[/name_m]
[name_m]Lancelot[/name_m]
[name_m]Laszlo[/name_m]
[name_m]Lazarus[/name_m]
[name_m]Albus[/name_m]
[name_m]Silas[/name_m]
[name_m]Caspian[/name_m]
[name_m]Hyram[/name_m]

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To add onto @jonquils comment, I went to school with a boy names [name_m]Ulysses[/name_m]! He wore it well, and no one ever made negative comments about it it seemed.

I absolutely love [name_m]Ferdinand[/name_m], [name_m]Raphael[/name_m], [name_u]Oberon[/name_u], and [name_m]Lucien[/name_m] from your list!

I don’t know if any compare to your lovely list, but here are a few suggestions:
[name_m]Achilles[/name_m]/Achille/Achilleo
[name_m]Aeneas[/name_m]
[name_m]Aloysius[/name_m]
[name_m]Aquilo[/name_m]
[name_m]Arturo[/name_m]
[name_m]Balthazar[/name_m]
[name_m]Bastian[/name_m]
[name_m]Benvolio[/name_m]
[name_m]Bernard[/name_m]
[name_m]Bruno[/name_m]
[name_m]Calixto[/name_m]
[name_m]Caradoc[/name_m]
[name_m]Carwyn[/name_m]
[name_m]Cassander[/name_m]
[name_u]Celyn[/name_u]
[name_m]Corwin[/name_m]
[name_m]Desmond[/name_m]
[name_m]Deveraux[/name_m]
[name_m]Didier[/name_m]
[name_m]Eamon[/name_m]
[name_m]Edmund[/name_m]
[name_m]Einar[/name_m]
[name_m]Elden[/name_m]
[name_m]Emeric[/name_m]/Emory/Emrys
[name_m]Endymion[/name_m]
[name_m]Eskender[/name_m]
[name_m]Etienne[/name_m]
[name_m]Ettore[/name_m]
[name_u]Florian[/name_u]
[name_m]Frederick[/name_m]
[name_m]Hector[/name_m]
[name_m]Ilario[/name_m]
[name_m]Julius[/name_m]
[name_u]Larkin[/name_u]
[name_m]Lazaro[/name_m]
[name_m]Leander[/name_m]
[name_m]Lelio[/name_m]
[name_u]Lirio[/name_u]
[name_u]Lorien[/name_u]
[name_m]Lysander[/name_m]
[name_m]Mercutio[/name_m]
[name_m]Meriadoc[/name_m]
[name_u]Meridian[/name_u]
[name_m]Merlin[/name_m]
[name_m]Montague[/name_m]
[name_m]Orson[/name_m]
[name_u]Penrose[/name_u]
[name_m]Percival[/name_m]
[name_u]Peregrine[/name_u]
[name_m]Pilou[/name_m]
[name_m]Pollux[/name_m]
[name_m]Prospero[/name_m]
[name_m]Rafferty[/name_m]
[name_m]Riordan[/name_m]
[name_m]Rodion[/name_m]
[name_m]Roland[/name_m]
[name_m]Ruslan[/name_m]
[name_m]Selwyn[/name_m]
[name_m]Seraphim[/name_m]
[name_m]Sherwood[/name_m]
[name_u]Sullivan[/name_u]
[name_m]Sylvan[/name_m]
[name_u]Taliesin[/name_u]
[name_m]Tarquin[/name_m]
[name_m]Templeton[/name_m]
[name_m]Theseus[/name_m]
[name_m]Thierry[/name_m]
[name_m]Tolliver[/name_m]
[name_m]Torquil[/name_m]
[name_m]Toulouse[/name_m]
[name_u]Tristan[/name_u]
[name_m]Tullius[/name_m]/Tulio
[name_m]Tybalt[/name_m]
[name_m]Valerio[/name_m]
[name_m]Viggo[/name_m]
[name_m]Wesley[/name_m]
[name_m]Wilfred[/name_m]
[name_m]Xanthos[/name_m]
[name_u]Zephyr[/name_u]
[name_m]Zorion[/name_m]

I will come back if I think of more!! :blush:

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I’d like to suggest [name_m]Pericles[/name_m], [name_m]Virgil[/name_m], [name_m]Marius[/name_m], [name_m]Benedict[/name_m], [name_m]Silvius[/name_m], [name_m]Philemon[/name_m], [name_m]Leonides[/name_m], [name_m]Erasmus[/name_m], [name_m]Jolyon[/name_m], [name_m]Perseus[/name_m], [name_m]Nicandro[/name_m]/Nikander, [name_m]Demetrius[/name_m], [name_m]Sulien[/name_m], [name_m]Maynard[/name_m], [name_m]Bascom[/name_m], [name_m]Everard[/name_m], [name_m]Ulrich[/name_m], [name_m]Casimir[/name_m], [name_m]Barnabas[/name_m], [name_u]Darian[/name_u], [name_m]Zebedee[/name_m] and [name_m]Savion[/name_m].

I assume some of these names may have come up before but it never hurts to consider a name a second time.

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to add to @jonquils and @regionlatbest, I went to school with a [name_m]Ulysses[/name_m] who went by the nickname Uly (OO-lee)

I love that name, and I remember it seeming so exotic at the time!

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Sorry for repeats:

[name_m]Upton[/name_m]
[name_m]Audric[/name_m] / [name_m]Alaric[/name_m]
[name_m]Fabian[/name_m]
[name_m]Julius[/name_m] / [name_m]Jerome[/name_m]
[name_m]Gerald[/name_m]
[name_m]Bastian[/name_m] / [name_m]Barnaby[/name_m]
[name_m]Titus[/name_m] / [name_u]Tristan[/name_u] / [name_u]Thaddeus[/name_u] / [name_m]Tobias[/name_m] / [name_m]Tobiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Conlan[/name_m] / [name_m]Clement[/name_m] / [name_u]Constantine[/name_u] / [name_m]Castiel[/name_m] / [name_m]Caradoc[/name_m]
[name_m]Emil[/name_m] / [name_m]Emrys[/name_m]
[name_m]Sylvan[/name_m] / [name_m]Sylvester[/name_m] / [name_m]Seamus[/name_m] / [name_m]Solomon[/name_m]
[name_m]Rockwell[/name_m] / [name_m]Roland[/name_m]
[name_m]Desmond[/name_m]
Ilarion / [name_m]Ignatius[/name_m]
Pericval / [name_u]Peregrine[/name_u] / [name_m]Peter[/name_m] / [name_m]Phineas[/name_m]
[name_u]Quentin[/name_u] / [name_u]Quinlan[/name_u]
[name_m]Loic[/name_m] / [name_m]Laszlo[/name_m] / [name_u]Larkin[/name_u] / [name_m]Ludo[/name_m] / [name_m]Ludovic[/name_m]
[name_m]Kelvin[/name_m]

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Orlando
[name_m]Cortez[/name_m]
[name_m]Oslo[/name_m]
[name_m]Icarus[/name_m]
[name_m]Titus[/name_m]
[name_m]Alastair[/name_m]
[name_m]Barnabas[/name_m]
[name_m]Dimitri[/name_m]
[name_m]Wolfgang[/name_m]
[name_u]Constantine[/name_u]
[name_m]Salvatore[/name_m]

Endymion ‘Teddy’
Albion
Lysander ‘Sasha’
Balthazar
Isidore
Azarius ‘Asa’
Uriah
Adriel
Elyan
Percival
Constantin ‘Kit’
Eleazar
Beowolf
Alaric
Cenred
Brynmor
Caedmon
Peregrine
Benvolio ‘Bo’

If only we could use [name_m]Hercule/name_m. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: DH has said yes to it as a middle name, but if only it didn’t start with H.

I’ll be back with a compiled list of the ones I like from everyone’s offerings. Thank you!

Oooo this is my style of boy names. [name_m]Gawain[/name_m] is one of my favourites!

Repeat Suggestions
[name_m]Lysander[/name_m] “[name_u]Sasha[/name_u]”
[name_m]Percival[/name_m]
[name_m]Alaric[/name_m]
[name_u]Peregrine[/name_u]
[name_m]Demetrius[/name_m]
[name_m]Ignatius[/name_m]
[name_u]Tristan[/name_u]
[name_m]Montague[/name_m]
[name_m]Leander[/name_m]
[name_m]Devereaux[/name_m]
[name_m]Lancelot[/name_m]
[name_m]Alasdair[/name_m]

More suggestions
[name_u]Augustine[/name_u]
[name_m]Evander[/name_m]
[name_u]Valentine[/name_u]
[name_m]Tudor[/name_m]
[name_m]Soren[/name_m]
[name_m]Crispin[/name_m]
[name_m]Cassian[/name_m]
[name_m]Romulus[/name_m] ‘[name_u]Romy[/name_u]’
[name_m]Edmund[/name_m] ‘[name_u]Teddy[/name_u]’
[name_m]Dominic[/name_m]
[name_m]Leopold[/name_m]
[name_m]Anselm[/name_m]

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Never before considered, but intriguing (@kachenka) :
[name_m]Sulien[/name_m] (this is striking!)
[name_m]Caradoc[/name_m]

A list (on the current longlist for baby 3)

Sebastian / [name_m]Sebastien[/name_m]
[name_m]Endymion[/name_m]
[name_u]Florian[/name_u]
[name_m]Julius[/name_m]
[name_u]Meridian[/name_u]
[name_u]Taliesin[/name_u]
[name_m]Theseus[/name_m]
[name_m]Tolliver[/name_m]
[name_m]Tybalt[/name_m]
[name_m]Titus[/name_m]
[name_m]Tobias[/name_m]
[name_u]Constantine[/name_u]
[name_m]Icarus[/name_m]

B list (strongly considered in past)
[name_m]Balthazar[/name_m]
[name_m]Benvolio[/name_m]
[name_m]Cassander[/name_m]
[name_m]Corwin[/name_m]
[name_m]Deveraux[/name_m]
[name_m]Didier[/name_m]
[name_m]Etienne[/name_m]
[name_u]Larkin[/name_u]
[name_m]Mercutio[/name_m]
[name_u]Peregrine[/name_u]
[name_m]Roland[/name_m]
[name_m]Templeton[/name_m]
[name_m]Thierry[/name_m]
[name_m]Torquil[/name_m]
[name_m]Benedict[/name_m]
[name_m]Silvius[/name_m]
[name_m]Erasmus[/name_m]
[name_m]Demetrius[/name_m]
[name_m]Clement[/name_m]
[name_m]Seamus[/name_m]
[name_m]Solomon[/name_m]
[name_m]Isidore[/name_m]
[name_m]Beowulf[/name_m]
[name_m]Benvolio[/name_m]
[name_u]Augustine[/name_u]

C list (those I like, but next tier down, or middle name only)
[name_m]Elio[/name_m]
[name_m]Laszlo[/name_m]
[name_m]Albus[/name_m]
[name_m]Achilles[/name_m] (that pesky A again)
[name_m]Bruno[/name_m]
[name_m]Lysander[/name_m]
[name_m]Prospero[/name_m]
[name_m]Orson[/name_m]
[name_m]Pollux[/name_m]
[name_m]Riordan[/name_m]
[name_m]Seraphim[/name_m]
[name_m]Toulouse[/name_m]
[name_m]Eberhard[/name_m]
[name_m]Casimir[/name_m]
[name_m]Barnabas[/name_m]
[name_m]Alastair[/name_m]
[name_m]Lancelot[/name_m]
[name_u]Valentine[/name_u]
[name_m]Anselm[/name_m]
[name_m]Evander[/name_m]

I’m glad to have a couple more ideas to mull over and a few old ones to more strongly consider.

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What a perfect list!

Here are a few ideas:
[name_m]Melchior[/name_m]
[name_m]Ezekiel[/name_m]
[name_m]Upwood[/name_m]
[name_m]Winford[/name_m]
Eventide
[name_m]Fitzhugh[/name_m]
[name_m]Alastair[/name_m] / [name_m]Alasdair[/name_m]
[name_m]Isaias[/name_m]
[name_u]Dexter[/name_u]
[name_m]Percival[/name_m]
[name_m]Atticus[/name_m]
[name_m]Audric[/name_m]
[name_m]Hannibal[/name_m]
[name_m]Theseus[/name_m]
[name_m]Garth[/name_m]
[name_m]Otis[/name_m]
Zephanaiah
[name_m]Leonardo[/name_m]
[name_u]Umber[/name_u]
[name_u]Jasper[/name_u]
[name_m]Silas[/name_m]
[name_m]Galahad[/name_m]
[name_m]Balthazar[/name_m]
[name_m]Lysander[/name_m]
Berlioz
Asterion
[name_m]Viggo[/name_m]
Ganymede
[name_u]Atlas[/name_u]
Kaido
[name_m]Kitto[/name_m]
[name_u]Asher[/name_u]
[name_m]Marius[/name_m]
[name_u]Elias[/name_u]
[name_f]Apple[/name_f]
[name_u]Finch[/name_u]
[name_u]Tristan[/name_u]
[name_u]Aries[/name_u]
[name_f]Winfrey[/name_f]
Somerset
[name_m]Tarquin[/name_m]
[name_m]Hercules[/name_m]
[name_m]Thibault[/name_m]
[name_u]Florian[/name_u]
Nicander
Diarmod
[name_m]Gaetan[/name_m]
Arslan
[name_m]Anakin[/name_m]
[name_m]Étienne[/name_m]
[name_m]Pasquale[/name_m]
[name_u]Eden[/name_u]
Agravaine
[name_u]Rohan[/name_u]
[name_m]Gareth[/name_m]
[name_m]Damon[/name_m]
[name_m]Hadrian[/name_m]
[name_m]Haiden[/name_m]
[name_u]Peregrine[/name_u]
[name_f]Ciel[/name_f]
[name_m]Hermes[/name_m]
[name_m]Nikolai[/name_m]
[name_m]Sebastian[/name_m]
[name_m]Albert[/name_m]
[name_m]Almanzo[/name_m]
[name_m]Sylvan[/name_m]
[name_m]Harlan[/name_m]
[name_m]Desmond[/name_m]
[name_m]Soren[/name_m]
Augustinius
[name_m]Justinian[/name_m]
[name_m]Emrys[/name_m]
[name_m]Azriel[/name_m]
[name_m]Leopold[/name_m]
[name_m]Wolfgang[/name_m]
[name_m]Adonis[/name_m]
[name_m]Matthias[/name_m]
[name_m]Konrad[/name_m]
[name_m]Benedict[/name_m]
[name_m]Maximilian[/name_m]
[name_m]Dunstan[/name_m]
[name_m]Tedric[/name_m]

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