HELP! Never going to agree on a BOY name!!

maggiemooandyou

DH and I were originally going to name our LO Lochlan Drake, my family hated it, and I felt it wasn't playground approved being my twit sister in law decided to start calling him Lochness Monster in public, and my FIL called him Lochwenn lol

So, our next choice was Liam- DH calls me the other day on his birthday and is like..So my coworker just had his kid on my birthday today, and they named him Liam --and that turned him off of that name, and I think it's going to blow up in popularity. (we haven't nixed it)

We both like uncommon/ less popular names that are HARD to nickname (for example Matthew, Robert, Bradley turn into Matt Rob Brad---hate shortened names)

We both like French, Scottish, Irish vibes so if you can suggest anything in those lines or anything not along the Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John scene that goes well with Laffitte as a last name would be awesome. TIA!

hasenbank

My DH liked Toven, Maddoc, and Dempsey.  He liked the nn Doc for Maddoc if there was one.  

maggiemooandyou

mj.reilly:

I prefer Lachlan to Liam. That mainly has to do with the fact that I don't like many popular names. I prefer uncommon.

I also want to say, find something YOU and your DH like. Your family can deal with it later. Once he is born, they will get used to it. It is YOUR decision. YOU are his parents. You parents / family had/have their chance to name children, now it is your turn.

Maybe something from my list will pop for you? Not all of these are French/Scottish/Irish, but:

Seamus, Cormac, Callan, Callum, Alastair, Atticus, Miles, Milo, Ronan, Jude, Archer, Silas, Herv?, Leif, Geoffrey, Oliver, Augustus, Gray, Niles, Nigel, Simon, Gideon, Sebastian, Gibson, Thatcher, Oscar, Alfie, Dexter, Louis, Lawson, Deegan, Sullivan, Liev, Sawyer, Rowan, Luca, Cedric, Fabian, Pierre, Anthony, Vincent

You seriously have my style down!! I have previously mentioned about 1/2 of those names to DH. As far as the family uproar about the name, we have just learned our lesson and they lost their rights to knowing the name before our kid's born lol. I totally feel the same way about this being our turn, but I also dont want to deal with all the shebang, because eventually i'm going to put the smack down lol. We decided no on lochlan because DH doesn't want him to be nicknamed Loch- which i dont like either- so it's def. out of the running. But it's not to say we wont pick and equally "wierd" name as everyone calls it.

lovemytwoboys

I really like Duncan and think it meets all of your requirements.

Oh, and I much prefer Lochlan over Liam.

bittersweet mama

I love the name Lochlan. It makes me think of the guy from Night at the Roxbury, Lochlyn Munro. For some reason nobody seems to know who that is though.

CrazyToast

maggiemooandyou:

As far as the family uproar about the name, we have just learned our lesson and they lost their rights to knowing the name before our kid's born

I am so glad you're done sharing your names with the family - people are SO rude sometimes, but I feel like they're better at behaving themselves when the kid is already here.

We have an unusual name picked for our LO, and I don't care if the family doesn't like it - they will have to learn to love it! 

 

That being said - my friend used the names Declan and Nolan for her boys.  How do you feel about those?

britab

Calder, Hazen, Harlan, Andreas, Kai, Grant

lrn327

I loved Declan and Callum but DH wouldn't go for them.  

sara1817

I think Lochlan Drake is an excellent name! Your family will get used to it and come to love it. Would they be able to follow nn rules?

kkwurn

I like the name Lochlan, but if that is out, then I also like Leland, but I don't think that I could get my DH to go for it.  Your family might not like it either, but it is different.

LeahanneM

I love the name Callum or Jude. GL finding something

That.Just.Happened

Declan.