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Boy names are so frickin' hard.

I've got nothing.  With Miles we just kind of randomly thought of his name.  So we don't really have a "go-to" list for boys.  Girl, I think, is settled.  But for a boy we've got nothing.  I feel like such an idiot.  People ask "Have you guys thought about names?"  Uhm yes...but we can't think of jack if it's a boy.  (No, we're not going to use Jack. haha.)

Any suggestions of names you like?  Miles is "Miles Brady".  I like Cooper, but I don't feel like it's original enough and could be so easily made fun of using the word "poop".  So we like original, yet classic.  Does that make sense?  Names that aren't used often, but are old, classic names.  Like Miles.  Big Smile

I like Jones, like Mousey's little guy...but I don't know if DH would go for it since we had a dog named Jonesy.  Smile

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    We were in the same boat so we were super relieved to find out we were having a girl. We chose our girl name in, literally, two minutes.

    How about Anderson? It's classic but not too common.

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    I agree with boys names.  We had one that we 100% agreed on and it was Ben and at the time we had a dog named Ben and my ILS have a dog named Ben. Seriously, he would have been named after the dogs.  Sad.  We also loved Tucker.  We were afraid of the teasing since Tucker rhymes with the F word. 

    My cousin's second child was going to be Cooper until "she" was born (Sadie). 

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    ha!  can I tell you a "secret"?  Our oldest cat, Cleo, has a "full name"...and its Cleopatra Jones Jr.  No idea where it came from...but needless to say, we dropped the "Jones" part completely when we decided to name DS Jones...ha!  shhh...don't tell anyone Wink

     Other names that popped into my head as being in the same vein as Miles:

    Simon

    Owen

    Felix

     

    and just for fun, a few more that I've been writing down recently:

    Vaughn

    Drake

    Hayes

    Roan

    Levi

    Graham

    Hendrix

     

     

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    ha!  can I tell you a "secret"?  Our oldest cat, Cleo, has a "full name"...and its Cleopatra Jones Jr.  No idea where it came from...but needless to say, we dropped the "Jones" part completely when we decided to name DS Jones...ha!  shhh...don't tell anyone Wink

     Other names that popped into my head as being in the same vein as Miles:

    Simon - Love it.

    Owen - Love it, but there was a turd-head kid at Miles' school and it put a bad taste in my mouth.

    Felix - I kind of like this one...not sure if I could get DH on board.

     

    and just for fun, a few more that I've been writing down recently:

    Vaughn

    Drake

    Hayes

    Roan

    Levi

    Graham

    Hendrix

     

    And I do like Anderson.  That's an excellent suggestion.  Very classic and not used very much.

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    We have had such a hard time with boy names too!!!  Here are some I like that might fit your criteria

    Andrew, Jonah, Micah, Reid, Oliver, Jude, Wesley, Jeremy, Hudson, Keith, Keaton, Ian, Jared, Isaac

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    We have had such a hard time with boy names too!!!  Here are some I like that might fit your criteria

    Andrew, Jonah, Micah, Reid, Oliver, Jude, Wesley, Jeremy, Hudson, Keith, Keaton, Ian, Jared, Isaac

    I love Oliver.  I mentioned it to DH once and he kind of turned his nose up at it...but he does that with most of them at first.  :-)

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    If this baby was a boy we would have named him Dawson.  I love it, not to crazy but not every kid has the name.
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    I may not be the best one to take advice from seeing as how I am having a boy in 9 weeks and have no name...but

    What about Cecil after your dad?  I love that name.  My parents have a good friend with that name who was an amazing surfer when he was young.  I grew up calling him Mr. Cecil and thinking he was the coolest man ever.  I think it is very classic.

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    We are having a hard time too!! By this time with Katie we knew her name since Kathyrn was the only name with both loved!! This time we have a list of names we both like but nothing we are ready to commit too. We have different top choices which is conflicting us.  We have one name with both really like but I think it is getting rulled out due to a nickname issue!!!  I hope we can think of something in the next 16 weeks!!!!

     

     

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    I'm partial to Sullivan.

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    How about Carter? I think that sounds nice and complements Miles.
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    Boy names are hard!  We had our girl name picked out plus some others for good measure fast.  We will still use our #1 girls name it if this one's a girl. 

    Conor was going to be Hayden until literally 4 days before I had him.  DH came home and suggested Conor at the last minute and it stuck.  We also liked Carter, Beckett, Logan and Alex.

    Other names: Asher, Luke, Nick, Drew.

    I think we'll start from scratch on boys names this time around.  So frustrating!

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    I agree.....boy names are hard. ALL of my friends have boys and DH's family is all boys (DD was the first girl since 1861 in his immediate lineage....not kidding!). That being said, here are is a long list of boy names that I think are "classic" 

    Jack

    Brooks

    Jacob

    Andrew

    Benjamin

    Matthew

    Connor

    Chase-My FAV! Couldn't use it because our friends had a Chase 9 months after we had DS1.

    Carson

    Carter

    Evan

    Kellen

    Aiden

    Max

    Ethan

    Cooper

    Mason

     

     

    GL!

     

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    Oh my gosh, I am totally opposite!  Like lots of girl names, but not love.  Have lots of fave boys:  Christopher, Benjamin, Thomas,  Alexander, Anthony, Andrew....all have shortened/nicknames which I love.  
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    Ha. We are the opposite. We had about 20 names for boys picked out and none for girls. There is literally nothing I like that hasn't been "overdone" (IMO). Thankfully, we have two boys :)
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    For a girl we got nothing! Boy name is rock solid:)
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    Wade, Seth, Wyatt, Tyler, Henry

    I also really like Anderson.

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    I love the suggestion of Cecil. Not sure if that's still too hard for you, but I think it would be an adorable name for a little kid and a great name to have as an adult. Also love Mousey's suggestion of Simon. I think both names sound very nice alongside Miles!
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    I love, love Oliver!

    You have tons of great suggestions in this post though.

     P.S. Is your girl name a secret or will you share?! I'm dying to know now!

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    We might have very similar tastes, miles was in my top 5 and obviously we went with Simon.  My other top was Elliot.

    Have you checked nymbler.com?  You can put in name you like but ruled out and they give you suggestions.

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    How about George, Henry, Louis, Frederick, Amos?
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    Could not agree more we had trouble both times
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    I feel like I was in your exact same shoes in terms of classic name that isn't used too often (and I feel like there are a lot of us in our generation aiming for that which will mean our "uniques" aren't really that unique for the kids, you know?)

    That said (in addition to Miles... ha) our top names were:

    Spencer

    Dean

    Preston

    Tyler
    Conor

    Elliot

    Simon 

    Alexander

    I also loved Benjamin (our dog is Ben though) and Oliver (DH HATED it)

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    I'm not sure that these are classic names but my favorite names that are the top of my list if we have another boy someday are Jude and Callum (Cal).  They aren't very common but not weird (IMO). 

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    I suppose it's a trend right now (grrrr!), but I'vealso as been a fan of first names that sound like last names.  Like Anderson and Jones.  ;). My DS is Davis.  Along those same lines are Brooks, Ellis, Russell, Griffin/ Griffith, Tucker...
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    With your last name & miles as a sub set, I love the suggestions of Anderson, Simon & graham. I nannied for the cutest sweetest brothers named graham & miles! 

    I will also throw into the mix:  Alexander,

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    I am partial to Malachi :) Classic but not common at all. Other names we seriously considered were Caleb and Isaac.

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    We had a million girl names and no boy names, so I had three boys :)

    Mine are Owen, Marshall and Grant.  Miles and Henry were on our list.  M was almost Reed.  I really like Evan, but it was too close to Owen.  I was just looking at a family tree and liked Harrison. 

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    My friends boys are Carter, Bennett and Gibson.

    I love the name Oliver.

    Years ago my #1 boys name was Holden.

    Good luck!


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    I love, love Oliver!

    You have tons of great suggestions in this post though.

     P.S. Is your girl name a secret or will you share?! I'm dying to know now!

    Nope.  Not a secret.  It's not 100% official.  My DH plays his non-committal card until we know the sex.  :-)  Her name would be Elizabeth "Libby" Cecilia.  (After my SIL and my cousin who is essentially my sister and the MN is after my Dad "Cecil".)

    And WOW!  You guys have so many great suggestions!  It's hard to imagine my maiden name as an actual name.  I guess because it's been a last name for me for so long.  I love Anderson, Amos, Sullivan, and Simon.  I think I could probably sell my DH on those.  I love Felix, but I think it's too quirky for him.  :-)  

    You guys are awesome!  Thank you!

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    My DS is Theodore - but we call him Teddy.  Definitely an old name, and not very common!  We liked it because if he decided he didn't want the nn Teddy any longer, he could choose another - Ted, Theo, etc.  
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