Help with name ideas for first baby (boy)

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Anonymous wrote:Sibling names to your fave girl names IRL:

Everett
Leo
Phillip
Conor

Leo is very common where we live (MD)

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Julian
Vincent
Everett
Emmett
Theo
Miles

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Julian is such a great name

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Gregory

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I wanted to use Ronan for a boy.

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Names that are easy for the average American to pronounce but where there will only be one in your child’s class: look for names that were common but aren’t anymore.

Stephen
Jeff
Jason
John
Matt
Eric
Kevin

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Alec
Brandon
Casey
Declan
Evan
Finn
Grant
Harrison
Ian
Josh
Kevin
Logan
Martin
Noah
Oliver
Penn
Quint
Reed
Samuel
Thomas
Vince
Wesley

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Royce
Nolan
Anders
Anderson

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Anonymous wrote:My husband and I just found out that that our baby due in October is a boy. We had a shortlist for girls, but we can't even come up with maybes for a boy.

Girls names we liked: Sabrina (my #1), Josephine, Veronica, Amelia, and maybe Orla.

We have a one syllable relatively common last name that starts with M. Ideally we'd have a first name that is easy for the average American to pronounce/recognize but uncommon enough that there aren't multiples in a class.

Any ideas?? I sort of like Rory for a boy, but it's very similar to our nephew's name so we think it'd be weird.

This isn’t such a thing anymore like it used to be. I have a 4th grader and 2nd grader. The only names that are repeated in either of their grades (no repeated IN their actual class but in the entire grade) are Nora, Ben, and Leo. So I would tell you avoid Ben and Leo haha but every other name, even names higher on the SSA name list, are not repeated. Most ppl we know want more unique names for their kids so there just aren’t a lot of repeats anymore.

+1 I wouldn't let popularity drive the decision. I worried a bit about it when naming my son Jacob. It had been the most popular name for years. But it was a family name and the connection was important to me. I'm glad I didn't pass on it because of popularity because he only ever had one other Jacob in class.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband and I just found out that that our baby due in October is a boy. We had a shortlist for girls, but we can't even come up with maybes for a boy.

Girls names we liked: Sabrina (my #1), Josephine, Veronica, Amelia, and maybe Orla.

We have a one syllable relatively common last name that starts with M. Ideally we'd have a first name that is easy for the average American to pronounce/recognize but uncommon enough that there aren't multiples in a class.

Any ideas?? I sort of like Rory for a boy, but it's very similar to our nephew's name so we think it'd be weird.

This isn’t such a thing anymore like it used to be. I have a 4th grader and 2nd grader. The only names that are repeated in either of their grades (no repeated IN their actual class but in the entire grade) are Nora, Ben, and Leo. So I would tell you avoid Ben and Leo haha but every other name, even names higher on the SSA name list, are not repeated. Most ppl we know want more unique names for their kids so there just aren’t a lot of repeats anymore.

+1 I wouldn't let popularity drive the decision. I worried a bit about it when naming my son Jacob. It had been the most popular name for years. But it was a family name and the connection was important to me. I'm glad I didn't pass on it because of popularity because he only ever had one other Jacob in class.

This.

My handful of kids have names in the top 10 or 20 from their birth year yet they have never been in a classroom or team with another kid with the same name.

The more obscure names were the ones that were repeated more heavily. Maybe it's because moms in our DCUM area agonize over being original and end up using the same original names.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sibling names to your fave girl names IRL:

Everett
Leo
Phillip
Conor

Leo is very common where we live (MD)

When I picked this name it ranked around 450 on the social security list. Be aware, even if you choose a less popular name, things can change.

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Gregory
Cyril
Malcolm

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Anonymous wrote:I know some of these were already suggested but

Arthur
Daniel
Gilbert
Hugo
Lucas
Owen
Primo
Rowan
Sebastian
Simon
Thomas
Vincent
Victor

Primo?

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Dominic
Adrian
Martin

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know some of these were already suggested but

Arthur
Daniel
Gilbert
Hugo
Lucas
Owen
Primo
Rowan
Sebastian
Simon
Thomas
Vincent
Victor

Primo?

Yeah, like author and scientist Primo Levi?
It's an older Italian name, generally used for the first son in a family.