Feedback on boy names, please!

[frontstreetmama]

I am having such a hard time picking out a boy's name! If the u/s was wrong and it's a girl, I'm totally in love with Kalliope Rose

I have three girls: Zoey, Johnnie and Gabi (technically short for Gabriella but only because I got talked out of putting Gabi on the birth certificate!). I like the idea of sticking with names that end with the 'ee' sound but it can be a longer name that shortens as well.

With my first two pregnancies, I loved the name Cohen however now I know two people with boys named Cohen and I don't love it so much anymore. With my third, I loved the name Finnlay (Finn for short) but it's just not really moving me as much this time around.

I am sort of tossing around Charlie except for a couple that I socialize with named their son Charlie and I don't really like to 'copy'. Also, it's a bit too 'common' for me. (I was not really happy to find out that Gabriella was in the top 100 of 2009! I didn't know anyone under 50 with that name when I decided on it!!!)

So far this pregnancy I have been mildly entertained by Huxley and Olliver (Olly for short).

What's your vote or your opinion please???

[MaerynPearl]

i like Huxley though that does go into the over-done last-name-as-first-name so if you want to avoid that this isn't the best name, but if not that is my favorite of the names you have given... And its not automatically thought of as a last name as many of the last names given as first names are.

Olliver with two Ls is also a surname but as a first name is just a blatant misspelling of a common name, which having common a name which was blatantly misspelled i can tell you gets REALLY annoying before you are even a teenager. Either use a unique name or a normal spelling because it is SO frustrating to have every single person assume its the normal spelling when its not. And because its a common name they don't even ask. They just assume. I cannot tell you how many times, including for legal things, I have had to call people to get my name spelled correctly even AFTER spelling it correctly for them. Even my own landlord spells it wrong half the time when writing my rent receipt even though she has my check, with my name spelled right, right in front of her.

Charlie I would avoid, myself, for the same reason you are considering avoiding it. If I knew someone close named Alexander we would give up on that name as well because I would not want to seem like I am copying them (even with a common name)

[philomom]

Charlie is awesome.

Olliver with two ll's is not working for me. He'll be forever explaining himself and he'll think you must have a marble loose.

Huxley is middle name material.

The Findley thing.... I've seen more girls than boys with this name and I don't care for it much.

[megviolet]

I went with Olliver but i absolutely would drop the second L. Oliver.
Charlie is a close second choice

[Drummer's Wife]

I'd go with Oliver, but spelled correctly. You can still call him Olly.

[Ianthe]

I like Huxley with your kids' names (and I have an Oliver, so obviously I like it too)

[frontstreetmama]

Oliver with one l looks wrong to me. And, technically spelt that way would be pronounced O-liver, the double consonant after a vowel before another vowel changes the initial vowel to a short sound instead of a long sound. Think O-pen. and O-ver as opposed to octagon.

[MaerynPearl]

as a first name, it is correct as Oliver... and is pronounced like olive... which is where the name comes from (it means olive tree)

[DaughterOfKali]

Oliver with one L

[RedOakMomma]

Oliver with one L, or Charlie. You could always use Charles, too, and call him Charlie.

I would skip the two-L Oliver because it looks like a very deliberate attempt to be different. With a name like Oliver, which is classy and different all on its own, the extra L just seems a little...i dunno...desperate or something.

Plus I think guys would get pretty annoyed by having a fancy, made-up spelling for a name.

[Sri Radha]

Another vote for an one "L" Oliver. Nobody would pronounce it O-liver.

[lovebug]

Originally Posted by megviolet

I went with Olliver but i absolutely would drop the second L. Oliver.
Charlie is a close second choice

me too!

[zinemama]

I like Oliver, but spelled correctly. Everyone knows how to pronounce it.

Huxley and Finnlay are last names.

Charlie would be fine for a little boy or young guy, but sounds too goofy for an adult.

[purplepaperclip]

Originally Posted by frontstreetmama

Oliver with one l looks wrong to me. And, technically spelt that way would be pronounced O-liver, the double consonant after a vowel before another vowel changes the initial vowel to a short sound instead of a long sound. Think O-pen. and O-ver as opposed to octagon.

No. One l, short o is correct.

[4Blessings]

Charlie has become a girl name, it seems. I know two little girls named Charlie!

I voted for Huxley although I LOVE the nn Finn.

[chai]

I love Huxley and Oliver (one "l" - agreed). Any name with "finn" in it would be too common around where I live for my taste (there are a ton of Finns in the 4-5 age range here).

I can't give an opinion on Charlie since it's my cousin's name.