Stuck on a baby boy name...help!

Boy Names
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[name]Hi[/name] Everyone,

First time posting here but I have been obsessed with Nameberry since I discovered it a few weeks after I found out we were pregnant. My husband and I are waiting to find out the gender of our little one but fell in love with the name [name]Finley[/name] for a girl early on. We have been back and forth on boy names and feel like we just haven’t found “the one”. Now with just 11 weeks to go and a boy list a mile long I am starting to feel the pressure. I feel like I have scoured every website and exhausted all resources…except reaching out to you.

For an idea of the names we are considering, names that we both like are [name]Roan[/name]/[name]Rowan[/name], [name]Jacob[/name] (too popular though), [name]Lucas[/name] (although he hates that I will want to shorten it to [name]Luca[/name]), [name]Logan[/name], [name]Elias[/name], [name]Silas[/name], [name]Owen[/name], [name]Wyatt[/name], [name]Liam[/name] (too popular).

Names that I love but that he has vetoed include [name]Callum[/name], [name]Peter[/name], [name]Mason[/name], [name]Kade[/name]/[name]Kaiden[/name], [name]Holden[/name], [name]Archer[/name], & [name]Benjamin[/name].
Names that he likes that I just can’t see us using include [name]Asher[/name], [name]Lincon[/name], [name]Raiden[/name], [name]Ronin[/name], & [name]Ethan[/name].

Our last name is pronounced Kooling, so the first name can’t end in a K sound as the names will run together. His mom really wants us to call the baby [name]Issac[/name]…just can’t do it, not going to happen. :slight_smile:

We haven’t even gotten to middle names yet. Although our family names include [name]Campbell[/name], [name]Marshall[/name], [name]Matthew[/name], McMillan, Battrum, [name]John[/name], [name]Robert[/name], [name]Wilber[/name] (I am not married to the idea of including a family name if it doesn’t work though).

Please PLEASE help us come up with a first name or first-middle combo!

Thank you!

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I think [name]Finley[/name] and [name]Rowan[/name]/[name]Roan[/name] are pretty perfectly matched! They are both unisex names of Irish/Scottish origin… I prefer [name]Roan[/name] for a boy, [name]Rowan[/name] for a girl! As [name]Finley[/name] is so unisex I would be inclined to pick either another unisex name or something Hyper masculine… [name]Wyatt[/name] fits the hyper masculine bill for me or something like [name]Wolfe[/name]. I also like the idea of keeping the Irish/Scottish theme… Other ideas…
[name]Cormac[/name]
[name]Conan[/name]
[name]Oscar[/name]
[name]Oisin[/name]
[name]Eamon[/name]
[name]Ludo[/name]/[name]Ludovic[/name] (instead of [name]Lucas[/name])
[name]Tristan[/name]
[name]Hamish[/name]
Seamas
[name]Declan[/name] (love [name]Finley[/name] and [name]Declan[/name]!)

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I agree with fluzie. I would go more masculine/Irish. Here are a few more:

[name]Ian[/name]
[name]Colin[/name]
[name]Patrick[/name]
[name]Duncan[/name]

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Thanks! My ancestry is Irish/Scottish and my husband’s is English/Scottish so the Irish/Scottish theme fits for us! The last few days [name]Rowan[/name]/[name]Roan[/name] have really been growing on us and [name]Wyatt[/name] is an old fav. I loooooove [name]Declan[/name] and [name]Cormac[/name] but my husband doesn’t like them. We have a good friend who’s son is named [name]Connor[/name], so that is out too.

What first name-middle name combos would you suggest?

Thanks!