Between us, we have five daughters. We are finally having a boy (definitely our last!) but can’t agree on what to name him. We’d like to give him the middle name [name_u]Kit[/name_u], as it’s both mine and my husband’s nickname, but have very different ideas as to what his first name should be. My husband likes more common, traditional names like [name_m]William[/name_m], [name_m]Andrew[/name_m], [name_m]Alasdair[/name_m] (really common where we live, I know its not common in the USA), [name_m]Thomas[/name_m], [name_m]Edward[/name_m], [name_m]Theodore[/name_m] and [name_m]Alexander[/name_m]. I like more unusual, old fashioned names like [name_m]Albert[/name_m], [name_u]August[/name_u], [name_m]Felix[/name_m], [name_m]Lucian[/name_m], [name_m]Octavian[/name_m], [name_u]Florian[/name_u] and [name_m]Adrian[/name_m].
The only name we both really like is [name_m]Frederick[/name_m], but my elder two daughters have a half-brother called [name_m]Alfred[/name_m], and its just too close.
What suggestions do you guys have to help bridge the gap? Our daughters are named [name_f]Julietta[/name_f] [name_f]Diane[/name_f], [name_f]Arabella[/name_f] [name_f]Ingrid[/name_f], [name_f]Isadora[/name_f] [name_f]Hedvig[/name_f], [name_f]Cressida[/name_f] [name_f]Fleur[/name_f] and [name_f]Cecily[/name_f] [name_f]Rosa[/name_f], if that matters.
The first name I thought of was [name_m]Beckett[/name_m], but I’m not sure if [name_m]Beckett[/name_m] [name_u]Kit[/name_u] flows very well. To bridge a few specific gaps between some of the names you mentioned, you could use [name_u]Theo[/name_u] instead of [name_m]Theodore[/name_m], [name_u]Luca[/name_u] instead of [name_m]Lucian[/name_m], [name_m]Xander[/name_m] instead of [name_m]Alexander[/name_m], etc., that way you get traditional origins with more unusual takes on the names. You could also use something like [name_m]Derek[/name_m] or [name_m]Roderick[/name_m] if you both agree on [name_m]Frederick[/name_m] but can’t use it.
Thanks for all your great suggestions! I really like [name_m]Fabian[/name_m], [name_m]Marcus[/name_m], [name_m]Lucas[/name_m], [name_m]Vincent[/name_m], [name_m]Sebastian[/name_m], [name_m]Jasper[/name_m], [name_m]Maximillian[/name_m] and [name_m]Gregory[/name_m].