I’m looking for long (3+ syllables), soft (not consonant-heavy), unusual, “poetic” boy names, but there don’t seem to be many out there, at least that I’ve found. I was wondering what you could suggest?
Thanks in advance! 
Find Nameberry’s guide to Long Baby Names here.
[name_m]Corentin[/name_m]
[name_u]Dorian[/name_u]
[name_m]Florentin[/name_m]
[name_m]Casimir[/name_m]
[name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m]
Cassianus
[name_m]Tobias[/name_m]
Faramund
[name_m]Angelo[/name_m]
[name_m]Theseus[/name_m]
[name_m]Matthias[/name_m]
[name_m]Sebastian[/name_m]
[name_m]Dimitri[/name_m], [name_m]Demetrius[/name_m]
[name_m]Alaric[/name_m]
[name_u]Delaney[/name_u]
[name_m]Alasdair[/name_m]
[name_m]Leander[/name_m]
[name_u]Florian[/name_u]
Eliseus
[name_m]Vivaldo[/name_m]
[name_u]Seneca[/name_u]
[name_u]Remington[/name_u]
[name_m]Fabian[/name_m]
[name_m]Emil[/name_m]
[name_u]Valentine[/name_u]
[name_u]Elliott[/name_u]
[name_m]Gabriel[/name_m]
Hmm. Hopefully some of these will be close to what you are looking for?
[name_m]Alessio[/name_m]
[name_m]Alessandro[/name_m]
[name_m]Massimo[/name_m]
[name_m]Marcello[/name_m]
[name_m]Clemens[/name_m]
[name_m]Cassius[/name_m]
[name_u]Francis[/name_u]
[name_m]Sebastian[/name_m]
[name_m]Julius[/name_m]
[name_m]Lucius[/name_m]
[name_m]Cornelius[/name_m]
[name_m]Linus[/name_m]
[name_m]Inigo[/name_m]
[name_m]Romulus[/name_m]
[name_m]Sirius[/name_m]
[name_m]Leander[/name_m]
[name_m]Lysander[/name_m]
[name_m]Ambrose[/name_m]
[name_m]Absalom[/name_m]
[name_m]Balthazar[/name_m]
[name_m]Horatio[/name_m]
[name_m]Isidore[/name_m]
[name_m]Leopold[/name_m]
[name_m]Cyprian[/name_m]
[name_m]Perseus[/name_m]
[name_m]Silvanus[/name_m]
[name_m]Sosthenes[/name_m]
[name_m]Theophilus[/name_m]
[name_m]Thelonius[/name_m]
[name_m]Benoit[/name_m]
[name_m]Benvolio[/name_m]
[name_m]Olivier[/name_m]
[name_m]Decimus[/name_m]
[name_m]Toulouse[/name_m]
[name_m]Julian[/name_m]
Not sure how unusual you’re looking for… Some of these might be considered kind of far out. Tried to stay with lots of vowels and mostly softer consonants-
Ademir
Albero
[name_m]Aloysius[/name_m]
[name_m]Armando[/name_m]
[name_m]Aurelian[/name_m]
[name_m]Aurelio[/name_m]
[name_u]Azariah[/name_u]
[name_m]Balthazar[/name_m]
Cayetano
[name_m]Eleazar[/name_m]
[name_m]Elian[/name_m]
[name_m]Elio[/name_m]
[name_m]Eliseo[/name_m]
[name_m]Emiliano[/name_m]
Evermar
[name_m]Gamaliel[/name_m]
Ilmarinen/Ilmari
Lelio
[name_m]Luciano[/name_m]
[name_m]Macario[/name_m]/[name_m]Macarius[/name_m]
[name_m]Marcelo[/name_m]
[name_m]Marius[/name_m]
[name_f]Melior[/name_f]
[name_m]Obadiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Oliviero[/name_m]
[name_m]Ottavio[/name_m]
Remiel
Rubeus
Sylvius
Theodemar
Theoden
[name_m]Vittorio[/name_m]
[name_m]Cosimo[/name_m], for me, has all these qualities.
Also [name_m]Dominic[/name_m] and [name_m]Boniface[/name_m].
I’ll throw some in -
[name_m]Alastair[/name_m]
[name_m]Peregrine[/name_m]
[name_m]Caspian[/name_m]
[name_u]Willoughby[/name_u]
[name_m]Benedict[/name_m]
[name_m]Raphael[/name_m]
Raedanoran Raedanoran - Meaning of Raedanoran, What does Raedanoran mean?
Isarno Isarno - Meaning of Isarno, What does Isarno mean?
[name_m]Vittorio[/name_m]
[name_m]Matteo[/name_m]
[name_m]Alonzo[/name_m]
[name_m]Lorenzo[/name_m]
[name_m]Cipriano[/name_m]
[name_m]Donatello[/name_m]
[name_m]Amadeo[/name_m]
[name_m]Amadeus[/name_m]
[name_m]Devereaux[/name_m]
[name_u]Everett[/name_u]
[name_m]Istivan[/name_m]
[name_m]Zephaniah[/name_m]
[name_m]Obadiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Isaiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Josiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Barnaby[/name_m]
[name_m]Matthias[/name_m]
[name_m]Sebastian[/name_m]
[name_m]Celadon[/name_m]
[name_u]Sullivan[/name_u]
[name_u]Valentine[/name_u]
[name_m]Valentino[/name_m]
Thanks so much everyone!
@amberdaydream- I love [name_m]Florentin[/name_m], [name_u]Florian[/name_u], Faramund, [name_m]Matthias[/name_m], [name_m]Dimitri[/name_m], Eliseus, and [name_m]Theseus[/name_m]!
@desdemona- I really like [name_m]Emil[/name_m] and [name_m]Gabriel[/name_m]!
@dream.create- Those are exactly what I’m looking for, thank you! [name_u]Love[/name_u] [name_m]Alessio[/name_m], [name_m]Marcello[/name_m], [name_u]Francis[/name_u], [name_m]Ambrose[/name_m], [name_m]Isidore[/name_m], [name_m]Benoit[/name_m], [name_m]Olivier[/name_m], & [name_m]Toulouse[/name_m].
(also [name_m]Benvolio[/name_m], but I’m using too many obvious Shakespearean names and have to draw the line somewhere, lol.)
I’ve never heard [name_m]Sosthenes[/name_m] and it’s really growing on me!
@columbiacharm- I love [name_m]Aurelio[/name_m], [name_m]Oliviero[/name_m], [name_m]Eliseo[/name_m], [name_m]Luciano[/name_m], [name_m]Marcelo[/name_m], [name_m]Ottavio[/name_m], Remiel (never heard this, and I adore your Remiel [name_m]Zephyrin[/name_m]!) and Ilmarinen. Also it’s funny, I just finished a combo for Lelio! So your suggestions are definitely the kind of names I like. 
@undertherainbow- I like [name_m]Cosimo[/name_m]!
@saracita00- Ooh, lots I’ve never heard of, thank you! [name_u]Love[/name_u] [name_m]Caspian[/name_m], [name_u]Willoughby[/name_u], [name_m]Raphael[/name_m], [name_m]Devereaux[/name_m], Isarno (thanks for the link) [name_m]Alonzo[/name_m], [name_m]Amadeo[/name_m], [name_m]Amadeus[/name_m], [name_m]Lorenzo[/name_m], and [name_m]Cipriano[/name_m].
[name_m]How[/name_m] about
[name_u]Elias[/name_u]
[name_m]Jeremiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Gregory[/name_m]
[name_m]Macallister[/name_m]
[name_m]Cymbeline[/name_m]
[name_m]Flanagan[/name_m]
[name_m]Nicolai[/name_m]
[name_m]Damien[/name_m]
[name_m]Rafferty[/name_m]
[name_u]Indigo[/name_u]
[name_u]Everest[/name_u]
[name_m]Lazarus[/name_m]
[name_m]Bartholomew[/name_m]
[name_m]Montgomery[/name_m]
[name_m]Lucian[/name_m]
[name_m]Finnegan[/name_m]
Sorry for any repeats!
[name_m]Abraham[/name_m]/[name_m]Avraham[/name_m]
[name_m]Absalom[/name_m]
[name_u]Adagio[/name_u]
[name_u]Akiva[/name_u]
[name_m]Alasdair[/name_m]
[name_m]Albion[/name_m]
[name_u]Alexios[/name_u]
[name_m]Amadeus[/name_m]/[name_m]Amadeo[/name_m]
[name_m]Amato[/name_m]
[name_m]Amias[/name_m]
[name_u]Amory[/name_u]
[name_m]Apollo[/name_m]
Aquamarine
[name_m]Aramis[/name_m]
[name_m]Archimedes[/name_m]
[name_u]Artemis[/name_u]
[name_m]Attilio[/name_m]
[name_u]Auberon[/name_u]
[name_u]Averil[/name_u]/[name_u]Averill[/name_u]
[name_u]Avery[/name_u]
[name_m]Azriel[/name_m]
[name_m]Azzedine[/name_m]
[name_m]Ballantine[/name_m]
[name_u]Bellamy[/name_u]
[name_m]Benvolio[/name_m]
[name_m]Calixto[/name_m]
[name_m]Calloway[/name_m]
[name_u]Calypso[/name_u]
Carnelian
[name_m]Casimir[/name_m]
[name_u]Cassio[/name_u]
[name_u]Cerulean[/name_u]
[name_m]Columbus[/name_m]/[name_f]Colomba[/name_f]
[name_m]Corentin[/name_m]
[name_u]December[/name_u]
[name_f]Diablo[/name_f]
[name_m]Dimitry[/name_m]
[name_m]Eleazar[/name_m]
[name_u]Elia[/name_u]
[name_m]Emmanuel[/name_m]
[name_f]Endellion[/name_f]
[name_m]Endymion[/name_m]
[name_m]Fabian[/name_m]
[name_m]Fidelio[/name_m]
Finvarra/[name_m]Finnian[/name_m]
Florizel
[name_m]Galileo[/name_m]
[name_u]Garcia[/name_u]
Gianluca
[name_m]Helios[/name_m]/[name_m]Elio[/name_m]
[name_m]Hesperos[/name_m]
Independence
[name_u]Indigo[/name_u]/[name_m]Indio[/name_m]
[name_m]Inigo[/name_m]
[name_m]Isandro[/name_m]
[name_m]Ishmael[/name_m]
Iskandar
[name_f]Jocelyn[/name_f]
[name_m]Jolyon[/name_m]
[name_u]Juniper[/name_u]
[name_m]Killian[/name_m]
Kyrian/[name_u]Kyrie[/name_u]
[name_m]Leander[/name_m]
[name_m]Llewellyn[/name_m]
[name_m]Lucian[/name_m]
Mariner
[name_m]Marius[/name_m]
[name_m]Massimo[/name_m]
[name_m]Mateo[/name_m]/[name_m]Matteo[/name_m]
[name_m]Melchior[/name_m]
Meridian
Myriad
[name_f]Nebula[/name_f]
[name_m]Neruda[/name_m]
Nicander
[name_m]Nicolai[/name_m]
Oasis
Obsidian
[name_m]Octavian[/name_m]
[name_m]Orlando[/name_m]
[name_m]Paladin[/name_m]
[name_m]Pietro[/name_m]
Polaris
[name_m]Ptolemy[/name_m]
[name_f]Remember[/name_f]
[name_m]Romeo[/name_m]
[name_f]Romilly[/name_f]
[name_m]Romolo[/name_m]/[name_m]Romulus[/name_m]
[name_m]Runyon[/name_m]
[name_m]Santiago[/name_m]
[name_u]Sequoia[/name_u]
[name_m]Serafim[/name_m]
Shenoah
[name_f]Starling[/name_f]/[name_f]Starlight[/name_f]
[name_m]Taddeo[/name_m]
[name_m]Thackeray[/name_m]
[name_m]Thiago[/name_m]
Théophile
[name_m]Tolliver[/name_m]
Tourmaline
[name_u]Traveller[/name_u]
[name_m]Valentin[/name_m]/[name_m]Valentino[/name_m]
[name_m]Viridian[/name_m]
[name_m]Vivaldo[/name_m]
Vivendel
[name_f]Waverley[/name_f]
[name_u]Willoughby[/name_u]
[name_m]Xavier[/name_m]
@saintdollface- Thank you! [name_u]Love[/name_u] [name_m]Cymbeline[/name_m], [name_m]Lucian[/name_m], and [name_m]Finnegan[/name_m].
@prettygirl- Wow, thanks for the long list, and so many I haven’t heard of! I love [name_m]Aramis[/name_m], [name_m]Benvolio[/name_m], Finvarra, [name_m]Llewellyn[/name_m], [name_m]Lucian[/name_m], Meridian, [name_m]Neruda[/name_m], [name_m]Romeo[/name_m], [name_m]Romolo[/name_m], Vivendel, & [name_u]Willoughby[/name_u].
@silverrose - You’re welcome - I had a few other ideas like [name_m]Ambrose[/name_m] and [name_m]Wesley[/name_m], but I was sticking with the longer names. BTW it makes me happy to see [name_m]Ansel[/name_m] on your list, such an underappreciated name. Also, thumbs up for [name_m]Caspian[/name_m] (I have one!) and [name_m]Edmund[/name_m] ([name_f]Narnia[/name_f] fan?).
@prettygirl - SUPER list. A lot of favorites I forgot plus some new ones.
@saracita00 Thank you, glad you like [name_m]Ansel[/name_m]. I adore [name_m]Caspian[/name_m], so happy to see someone using it- your son has a wonderful name! And yes, I’m a huge [name_f]Narnia[/name_f] fan, lol.
These don’t all have Nameberry entries, but they are all names (except perhaps Callistemon, which is a botanical name)
[name_m]Sergius[/name_m]
Theodosius
[name_m]Beauregard[/name_m]
[name_m]Abelard[/name_m]
[name_m]Laurentius[/name_m]
[name_m]Nereus[/name_m]
[name_m]Christiaan[/name_m]
[name_m]Phineas[/name_m]
[name_m]Samuel[/name_m]
[name_m]Oriol[/name_m]
[name_m]Samuel[/name_m]
[name_m]Tomasso[/name_m]
[name_m]Mohammed[/name_m]
[name_m]Ammiel[/name_m]
Callistemon
[name_m]Emmanuel[/name_m]
[name_m]Andreas[/name_m]
Aeschylus
Alphaeus
[name_m]Aloysius[/name_m]
Cuchulainn
Conchobar
Aneirin
Maredudd
Trahaearn
[name_f]Eirian[/name_f]
Rhydian
Taliesan
Gwydion
[name_m]Aurelius[/name_m]
Galahad
[name_u]Oberon[/name_u]
Oberlin
Bedivere
[name_m]Peredur[/name_m]
Pryderi
Menelaus
Gwalchmei
[name_m]Ambrosius[/name_m]
[name_m]Ambrosio[/name_m]
Vespasian
[name_u]Columba[/name_u] / Columban
[name_m]Cornelius[/name_m]
[name_m]Dionysus[/name_m]
[name_m]Hesperus[/name_m]
[name_m]Hieronymus[/name_m]
Hyperion
[name_m]Ferdinand[/name_m]
[name_m]Gideon[/name_m]
Hephaestus
[name_m]Augustine[/name_m]
[name_m]Algernon[/name_m]
[name_m]Justinian[/name_m]
[name_m]Johannes[/name_m]
Cystennin
[name_m]Marcellus[/name_m]
[name_m]Faustino[/name_m]
[name_m]Aeneas[/name_m]
[name_m]Florencio[/name_m]
[name_m]Felicio[/name_m]
[name_m]Feliciano[/name_m]
Meriwether
Sorry for any repeats (I’ve tried to avoid them).
@onomastodon- Thanks so much, what a great list! [name_m]Nereus[/name_m], [name_m]Tomasso[/name_m], [name_m]Ammiel[/name_m], [name_m]Ambrosio[/name_m], Vespasian, Aneirin, Taliesan, [name_m]Johannes[/name_m], [name_m]Marcellus[/name_m], and [name_m]Florencio[/name_m] are my favorites, I think.
[name_m]Adrian[/name_m]
[name_u]Elias[/name_u]
[name_u]Elliot[/name_u]
You’re welcome! [name_f]Glad[/name_f] I was able to help, and it was fun to go through my long list and find these names!
@saracita00, I’m always so in awe of your lists, so I’m glad mine impressed you!
I love [name_u]Willoughby[/name_u] but does the connection to Sense and Sensibility not turn anyone else off? [name_f]Do[/name_f] I read too much [name_u]Austen[/name_u]???
@boyandgirl- Thanks! I like [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] a lot, and [name_u]Elias[/name_u] has been growing on me lately.
@cocoapuff- Eh, if I love the name then connections to characters, positive or not, don’t bother me, especially if I like the book they came from. It helps that [name_u]Willoughby[/name_u] from Sense and Sensibility isn’t the first/only thing people think of when they hear the name, as far as I’m aware. (Like [name_m]Othello[/name_m]…sad sigh).
You don’t read too much [name_u]Austen[/name_u], that’s impossible. ;D
@cocoapuff - Ha ha! No, not possible to read too much [name_u]Austen[/name_u]. I wouldn’t actually USE [name_u]Willoughby[/name_u] on my own son, but it fit the callout description.