Team green, 35 weeks, desperate for boy name

Hello!

We’re new here. Our situation: 35 weeks pregnant, we don’t know the baby’s gender, we have two options in case it’s a girl, but we’re totally stuck on boy names.

If it’s girl, she’ll either be [name_f]Gloria[/name_f] or [name_f]Solange[/name_f], which we’re both super psyched about.
For a boy, he likes [name_m]Isaiah[/name_m] or [name_m]Saul[/name_m]. I likes [name_m]Viggo[/name_m], Helder, [name_u]Noam[/name_u], [name_m]Rafael[/name_m], [name_f]Romi[/name_f]. I could maybe go for Isaya, but I don’t feel as excited about that as about our girl names. The only boy name we both love is [name_u]Gabriel[/name_u], but that’s taken by a nephew.

He would love something that’s biblical and/or has African (Congolese) touches, but it’s not a prerequisite. I love names that are melodic and have a beautiful meaning or story attached. The name has to work in [name_u]French[/name_u] and [name_m]Dutch[/name_m], but I imagine that’s hard to take into account if you speak neither :smiling_face:

We’re open to gender neutral names, of course, but there don’t seem to be any that catch both our hearts.

Middle names will be [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu no matter the gender.

We’ve got 1000 karma points to give away to whomever gives us a hint in the right direction.

Anybody feeling inspired?

Here are some ideas:
[name_m]Malo[/name_m]
[name_m]Melker[/name_m]
[name_m]Joel[/name_m]
[name_m]Joah[/name_m]
[name_m]Haldor[/name_m]
Bahati
[name_m]Bakari[/name_m]
Zawadi
[name_m]Kees[/name_m]
[name_m]Ibrahim[/name_m]
[name_m]Kuiper[/name_m]
[name_u]Niam[/name_u]
[name_u]Romilly[/name_u]
[name_m]Ramone[/name_m]

Good luck :four_leaf_clover: I hope you find ‘the’ name very soon.

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[name_u]Michel[/name_u]
[name_u]Daniel[/name_u]
[name_m]Ezekiel[/name_m]
[name_m]Emmanuel[/name_m]
[name_m]Ishmael[/name_m]
[name_m]Baltazar[/name_m]
[name_m]Caspar[/name_m] / [name_m]Casper[/name_m]
[name_u]Ezra[/name_u]
[name_u]Levi[/name_u]
[name_u]Noah[/name_u]

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[name_m]Boaz[/name_m], [name_u]Adrian[/name_u], [name_m]Olivier[/name_m], [name_u]Christian[/name_u], [name_u]David[/name_u], [name_u]Benjamin[/name_u], [name_m]Joel[/name_m], [name_u]Florian[/name_u], [name_m]Marcel[/name_m], [name_m]Samuel[/name_m], [name_m]Vincent[/name_m], [name_m]Bruno[/name_m], [name_m]Louis[/name_m], [name_m]Adam[/name_m]?

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Maybe…

[name_m]Ozias[/name_m]
[name_m]Boaz[/name_m]
[name_u]Blaise[/name_u]
[name_m]Malachi[/name_m]
[name_m]Nekoda[/name_m]
[name_m]Remiel[/name_m] ‘Remi’
[name_m]Gideon[/name_m]
[name_m]Felix[/name_m]
[name_m]Ibrahim[/name_m]
[name_u]Omari[/name_u]
[name_m]Emmanuel[/name_m]
[name_m]Amaury[/name_m]

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[name_u]Welcome[/name_u] to NB!!! Congrats on the new baby coming soon! Well, I don’t need karma but I’ll help the best I can!

Biblical (or Hebrew/Greek)
[name_m]Josiah[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_m]Osias[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_m]Elian[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_m]Johannes[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_m]Simon[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_m]Castiel[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_m]Mordecai[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_m]Oren[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_m]Ignacio[/name_m] / [name_m]Ignatius[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_m]Baruch[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_m]Andreas[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_m]Gideon[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_m]Hananiah[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_m]Joah[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu

Not :

[name_m]Soren[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
Ozier [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_u]Arden[/name_u] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_u]Raven[/name_u] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_u]Orion[/name_u] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_u]Henry[/name_u] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu
[name_m]Dmitri[/name_m] [name_u]Paz[/name_u] Yulu

Hopefully these help :slight_smile:

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Not sure I’ve got through all the hoops but here are some attempts:

[name_m]Aubin[/name_m]
Arthur/Art
[name_m]Ambrose[/name_m]
[name_m]Augustin[/name_m]
[name_m]Benedict[/name_m]
[name_m]Bernard[/name_m]
[name_u]Blaise[/name_u]
[name_m]Christophe[/name_m]
[name_u]Christian[/name_u]
[name_u]Elias[/name_u]
[name_m]Emmanuel[/name_m]
[name_u]Florian[/name_u]
[name_m]Gaston[/name_m]
[name_m]Ignatius[/name_m]
[name_m]Isaac[/name_m]
[name_m]Louis[/name_m]
[name_m]Lucien[/name_m]
[name_m]Marcel[/name_m]
[name_m]Patrick[/name_m]
[name_u]Pascal[/name_u]
[name_m]Raymond[/name_m]
Sebastian/Sebastien/Bas
[name_m]Sylvain[/name_m]
[name_m]Vincent[/name_m]
[name_m]Zachary[/name_m]

[name_f]Hope[/name_f] this helps :sparkles::sparkles::sparkles:

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I found this about [name_f]Africa[/name_f] in the Bible if you wanted to check it out (not [name_m]Congo[/name_m] specifically)

https://www.cbeinternational.org/resource/hidden-africans-bible-and-early-church/

Names I found from there are that I liked where [name_m]Cyprian[/name_m] and [name_m]Cyril[/name_m]

Some more [name_u]French[/name_u] centric names

Desange (of the angels) … maybe a little too on the nose for [name_u]French[/name_u] speakers

Others

[name_m]Eliseo[/name_m]
Gaudens
[name_u]Jireh[/name_u] (the lord sees / the lord provides I think it has something to do with [name_m]Abraham[/name_m] and his sons)
Osee (Hosea)

Others
[name_u]Jarrah[/name_u]

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[name_m]Rafael[/name_m] is great, push for that if you love it. A couple of people above have suggested [name_m]Emmanuel[/name_m] :yellow_heart: which obviously works in [name_u]French[/name_u]. It’s melodic and basically Biblical. Not sure about [name_m]Dutch[/name_m] or the Congolese touch, but otherwise it could be perfect. [name_u]Love[/name_u] [name_m]Ambrose[/name_m] or even Abraham/Abram, with the [name_m]Dutch[/name_m] sounding nickname [name_m]Bram[/name_m]. [name_u]Or[/name_u] maybe something like [name_m]Zebedee[/name_m]?

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some suggestions that will definitely work in [name_m]Dutch[/name_m] and might work in [name_u]French[/name_u] (from a native Dutch-speaker and a non-native basic [name_u]French[/name_u] speaker)

[name_m]Boaz[/name_m]
[name_u]Elias[/name_u]
[name_u]Ezra[/name_u]
[name_m]Lazare[/name_m]
[name_u]Leon[/name_u]
[name_u]Moses[/name_u]
[name_m]Ruben[/name_m]
[name_m]Samuel[/name_m]

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