My favorites from your list of “normals” are: [name]Hector[/name], [name]Hugo[/name], [name]Ivo[/name], [name]Rufus[/name], and [name]Viggo[/name]. Some other names you might like that I would also put in the “normal” category are: [name]Abram[/name], [name]Albert[/name], [name]Archibald[/name], [name]Carl[/name], [name]Douglas[/name], [name]Edgar[/name], [name]Elias[/name], [name]Ernest[/name], [name]Ezra[/name], [name]Francis[/name]/[name]Frank[/name], [name]Gilbert[/name], [name]Patrick[/name], [name]Paul[/name], [name]Percy[/name], [name]Ralph[/name], [name]Stanley[/name], [name]Stephen[/name], [name]Tobias[/name], [name]Wilfred[/name].
Thank you so much! You really love [name]Hugo[/name] don’t you? [name]Mio[/name] and [name]Idris[/name], not so much…
Also, just to clearify, we’re not looking for the most normal name of these, these are just more normal than our original boy list (which is: [name]Endymion[/name], [name]Herne[/name], [name]Orion[/name], [name]Orpheus[/name] and [name]Theron[/name]). This is just in case!!
My top 3 from your “normal” list:
- [name]Robin[/name]
- [name]Hugo[/name]
- [name]Rufus[/name]
I like [name]Idris[/name] 
1 [name]Hugo[/name]
2 [name]Ivo[/name]
3 [name]Rufus[/name]
I love a lot of these! [name]Ivo[/name] is my favourite, I’m seriously considering it alongside [name]Rosa[/name], Emre, [name]Maud[/name], [name]Franz[/name] (family name) and Sasja. I actually know a three year old named [name]Ivo[/name], his brother is [name]Theo[/name] which is too much for me. His mother says a girl would have been [name]Leona[/name].
Also love [name]Idris[/name] and [name]Hugo[/name]. (and [name]Hector[/name], [name]Cecil[/name] and [name]Rufus[/name]) I only recently discovered how great [name]Hugo[/name] works here, and I like that it starts with H like my mother’s name.
These are the “normal” choices? Hmmm, not where I live. On your list, I would pick [name]Cecil[/name] or [name]Viggo[/name]. I really like your girl list much better. I would really encourage you not to use [name]Nemo[/name] or [name]Rufus[/name]. I think they could be really hard for a child to be saddled with.
renrose and dearest: Yay for liking [name]Idris[/name]!
Thanks again everyone, I think my list will be [name]Robin[/name], [name]Hugo[/name], [name]Idris[/name], [name]Rufus[/name] and [name]Nemo[/name]/[name]Cecil[/name]/[name]Viggo[/name]. Need to ask boyfriend when he emerges from his “cave”.
Where I live (northern [name]New[/name] [name]England[/name]), [name]Rufus[/name] is very popular for men over 60! I know of at least 4 or 5 men with the name; same goes for [name]Basil[/name]. [name]Both[/name] unfortunately (?) are also popular for dogs.
- [name]Robin[/name]
- [name]Hugo[/name]
- [name]Ivo[/name]
- [name]Rufus[/name]
- [name]Viggo[/name]
My fav top 3: 1. [name]Hugo[/name] 2. [name]Ivo[/name] 3. [name]Mio[/name]
I like a lot of these names but there are also a lot of them that I wouldn’t class as “normal” (Whatever that may be!) - so I’m giving you my top 3 of the ones I consider to be “normal” lol.
- [name]Robin[/name] - cute and very underused, but definitely normal.
2)[name]Hugo[/name]
3)[name]Hector[/name]
[name]Rufus[/name] unfortunately just reminds me of the “comedian” [name]Rufus[/name] Hound now…which is not a positive association for me personally!
[name]Robin[/name] and [name]Idris[/name]!
I love:
[name]Hugo[/name] - [name]One[/name] of my favorites. A nice stong name.
[name]Idris[/name] - I’ve never seen/heard this before. I like the sound.
[name]Ivo[/name] - Cool name. He would fit in with all the little [name]Milo[/name]'s, [name]Theo[/name]'s, [name]Hugo[/name]'s, & [name]Leo[/name]'s but still stand out.
[name]Robin[/name] - I love [name]Robin[/name] for a boy. It’s fresh.
[name]Rufus[/name] - [name]Rufus[/name] is growing on me. I didn’t like it at all when I started seeing it on the boards but i’m starting to warm up to it. I would love to see a little boy named [name]Rufus[/name] in person.
[name]Viggo[/name] - I added this name to my long list just a couple of days ago. I like the sound. I just hope people can get past thinking about the actor every time they hear it.
LIKE:
[name]Cecil[/name] - it’s ok. I just like other names better. Are you pronouncing it SES-il or SEE-cil?
NMS:
[name]Mio[/name] - reminds me of the flavoring that you put in water
[name]Nemo[/name] - reminds me of the movie Finding [name]Nemo[/name] or [name]Captain[/name] [name]Nemo[/name]. I think this could cause a lot of teasing when he’s in school.
hayley: thank you! When I think of [name]Rufus[/name], it’s all [name]Wainwright[/name], not Hound!!
christabel: [name]Cecil[/name] is pronounced SE-suhl. I like it, it’s the name of one of my favourite poets. Thanks for your comments! [name]Viggo[/name] is quite common in Scandinavia (maybe not the young so much, it’s a bit of an old man name), and I love mr. Mortensen, so it’s fine by me.
Thanks everyone!
I [name]LOVE[/name] [name]Viggo[/name] & [name]Robin[/name], closely followed by [name]Rufus[/name]!
Actually, [name]Viggo[/name] [name]Robin[/name] is a really cute combo!
- [name]Hector[/name]
- [name]Hugo[/name]
- [name]Viggo[/name]
[name]Robin[/name] and [name]Idris[/name]! [name]Ivor[/name] the Engine and his pal [name]Idris[/name] the dragon were favourite characters of mine growing up. My Nain made me an [name]Idris[/name] who, um, still lives at my parents’ house.
[name]Cecil[/name]'s pretty cool too.
[name]Nemo[/name]- despite its fishy and interesting proto-postcolonial [name]Captain[/name] connotations- just reads to me as the latin vocab word for ‘nobody’. Which, whether or not you’re into etymology, is not the most awesome thing to turn up when you’re ten and googling your name’s meaning.
[name]Hugo[/name]
[name]Rufus[/name]
[name]Idris[/name]
[name]LOVE[/name] [name]Hugo[/name]! [name]Nemo[/name] is way too fishy, I just feel like there’s a lifetime of ‘are you lost’ jokes ahead :c
I am so late to this party, but I’m commenting anyway, haha. [name]Mio[/name] is cute too but it makes me sad to see it not be used as a nn. =]
1)[name]Viggo[/name]
2)[name]Robin[/name]
3)[name]Hector[/name]