Hi there
We are due our baby boy in a few days and are completely stuck on names. Please help us! We have some awkward criteria…
must have some sort of Mediterranean/ Spanish/ greek / Italian origin or sound (to match surname and family roots) but be easy to read/pronounce in uk
can’t be common (luca, Leo, Rafael- lovely names but we want something a little more rare)
can’t end in an ‘o’ (again- due to surname)
Names we like but can’t have: Elias, Ezra, Nico, Rocco, Xander
I know it’s a bit of a challenge, sorry but we can’t agree on anything and are running out of time. We would like to go to hospital with at least a few names in the mix! Thank you:) x
Something that came to mind immediately is Nicholas (which is Greek) with the nickname Nico. It fixes the issue of your surname ending in -o, and while Nicholas is common, Nico isn’t, so I think it could work!
Some other ideas, though (mostly Greek, but with some Italian/Spanish mixed in!):
Atlas
Basil
Topher (From Christopher, which is Greek? You could also do Kit from Christopher, though I don’t remember how popular Kit is in the UK)
Felix (Latin, which maybe counts since Latin originated in the Mediterranean?)
August
Orion
Percy
Phineas
Leander
Alexis
Atticus
Linus
Jonas
Matthias / Matias
Giovanni
Gianni
i love the suggestion of [name_u]Atlas[/name_u] for you!! has a greek origin but it’s also a spanish word
it’s trendy but i think it’s still so uncommon
also love the suggestion of [name_m]Felix[/name_m], but it’s pretty popular if you’re concerned about that
some more ideas:
Argos
[name_u]Ares[/name_u]
[name_m]Atticus[/name_m]
[name_m]Aurelian[/name_m]
[name_m]Casper[/name_m]
[name_u]Cruz[/name_u]
[name_m]Cedric[/name_m]
[name_m]Crispin[/name_m]
[name_u]Tristan[/name_u]
[name_u]Florian[/name_u]
[name_m]Ian[/name_m]
[name_u]Memphis[/name_u]
[name_m]Remus[/name_m] nn [name_u]Remi[/name_u] / [name_u]Remy[/name_u]
[name_u]Ventura[/name_u]
[name_u]Viridian[/name_u]
We have an Italian last name ending in a long -o, so I totally feel your pain with finding the right fit! [name_f]My[/name_f] husband is also of deep Greek and Italian heritage.
What about [name_m]Roman[/name_m]? That’s what first came to mind. Second was [name_m]Maximilian[/name_m].
Thank you so much for all your suggestions they’re great. We can’t use a lot of them due to my husbands family being huge and selfishly taking the more original Italian and Spanish ones up. how rude But very grateful for all your thoughts.
The ones i ike best so far are
[name_m]Roman[/name_m] (I love this especially) [name_u]Rome[/name_u] for short
[name_m]Cyrus[/name_m]
[name_u]Leander[/name_u]
[name_u]Ezri[/name_u] (we both said we liked this before but i wasn’t sure it sounded a bit feminine? Thoughts?)
[name_m]Silas[/name_m]
[name_m]Xavier[/name_m]
[name_u]Orion[/name_u]
[name_m]Jonas[/name_m]
Might not be the sort of thing that you’re after, but as far as names with Greek roots, you could go for something like [name_u]Pax[/name_u], [name_m]Ajax[/name_m], [name_m]Calix[/name_m], etc. I think those ‘x’ names are trendy enough that they’ll feel familiar to people in the UK, but there shouldn’t be a hundred of them in your son’s class.
What about [name_m]Ayrton[/name_m]? I myself associate it with Portuguese because of the formula 1 driver, [name_m]Ayrton[/name_m] [name_u]Senna[/name_u] (he was Brazilian), but it is also easily pronounced in [name_f]English[/name_f]!
but we can’t agree on anything and are running out of time. We would like to go to hospital with at least a few names in the mix! Thank you:) x
But very grateful for all your thoughts.