My hubbie and I can’t agree on a name for our little one, due on 24 [name]October[/name]. We are looking at [name]Lila[/name] [name]Rose[/name] for a girl and completely stuck on boys names!
We liked [name]Flynn[/name] for a long time, but it’s getting too popular and I would hate for our baby to be one of 5 [name]Flynn[/name]'s in his class at school.
We are looking for something a bit more unique. I love [name]Xander[/name], but my other half said it reminds him too much of [name]Vin[/name] [name]Diesel[/name].
He likes surname names (I’m not so keen as our surname is a first name - [name]Anthony[/name]), it needs to be short (1 or 2 syllables) and ideally something that no one else is called so something new or fairly old fashioned. Any suggestions?!
I have the same worry about “five other kids” with the same name (why is it always five? :)) I agree with [name]Blade[/name] in that I don’t see [name]Flynn[/name] reaching that status. My name was #12 my birth year and I only had one other [name]Rebecca[/name] in my classes in a pretty big school. You can never tell!
Some I don’t hear mentioned too often:
[name]Brandeis[/name]
[name]Rafe[/name]
[name]Remy[/name]
[name]Roscoe[/name]
[name]Hadrian[/name]
[name]Cassian[/name] or just [name]Cass[/name]
[name]Dane[/name]
[name]Larkin[/name]
Some suggestions I have are
[name]Kylar[/name]
[name]Rogan[/name]
[name]Talen[/name]
[name]Omar[/name]
[name]Dewey[/name]
[name]Eddison[/name]
Lamir
[name]Rawleigh[/name]
Kennon
[name]Bodhi[/name]
First I will say that you are right in being wary of the surname as first/first as surname issue. My husband is in that situation, and he frequently has to clarify. A minor annoyance in life, but an annoyance nonetheless. I’m not sure it would have stopped me if we had really loved a surname as first, but he wanted to avoid it.
I started to split my list of suggestions into surnames and not, but especially with boys’ names there’s quite an overlap. So…
[name]Flynn[/name] was #946 on the US charts last year- 208 boys given that name. To put that in context, there were roughly 100 Jacobs for every one [name]Flynn[/name], or 35 called [name]Eli[/name] for every one [name]Flynn[/name], or 10 boys called [name]Silas[/name] for every [name]Flynn[/name], or even 5 Finns for every one [name]Flynn[/name]. Roughly 2 million boys born are born in the US every year - so 1 in 10,000 American boys born in 2011 were called [name]Flynn[/name]. Names tend to be popular within regions, but even accounting for that, I think it would be really, really unlikely for there to be another [name]Flynn[/name] in your son’s grade at school. And if there were five other Flynns, that would be astonishing!
Granted if you’re Australian, British, or Canadian, it’s a little more popular.
Like pp have said, I really think you’re quite safe with [name]Flynn[/name]. Is it name forums that have you thinking [name]Flynn[/name] is going to be too popular? Actual naming trends do not tend to reflect what people suggest on naming boards. So if a name is popular on Nameberry for a few months, it doesn’t necessarily mean it will take off in your region. If you have friends all saying they want to name their babies [name]Flynn[/name], then your fears are probably validated.
As for other suggestions, these are the ones that I like best out of previous posts:
[name]Clark[/name]
[name]Holt[/name]
[name]Locke[/name]
My suggestions:
[name]Eben[/name]
[name]Fox[/name] (a surname/word name that could work for you)
[name]Gordon[/name]
[name]Lars[/name]
[name]Rex[/name]