Boy Name Help?

Our boy name might fit your criteria ... Ezra.

Edison - would get shortened to Ed/Eddie which is too plain for me :
Elijah (called Eli) - LOVE the nickname but prefer Elliot for the given name
Elliott - see above (although I'd worry about the Elliott/idiot tease factor)
Emmett - makes me think of that otter movie with the jug band? ok
Franklin - makes me think of the turtle cartoon, and Frank is a bit plain
Julius - my least favorite of your list - seems feminine (Julie/Julia)
Leland - I like it - goes well with Michael too
Leopold (called Leo) - like the nickname but not the given
Oliver - ok
Quentin/Quinton - really like Quentin! but isn't Quinn getting popular for girls?
Roosevelt - interesting and different but would get shortened to Rose...
Sebastian - think this may be my fave from your list, Seb is a great nickname

Ones that I like but my husband doesn't:
Arlo, August, Oscar, Romare - think I pretty much agree with your dh... :

We almost went with "Julius" but our last name starts with a "Sh" too, and I have a thing about elision, so we chose "Julian" instead. Too bad his paternal grandmother can't seem to remember that and keeps calling him "Julius" anyway. :

I love Leland. Emmett makes me think of Emmett Otter, but that's just me.

The others, not so much. Although I'm with you on "Oscar" and "Oliver."

~nick

Hi everyone - thanks for advice, please keep it coming. Here is my take on the nickname issue ... my daughter has a name that could be shortened, but we insist on using the whole name. So I'm absolutely not worried about nicknames unless she chooses it as an adult. My husband goes by his nickname but is happy to have the longer name available. So I guess I can see both ways of it.

I don't know of Emmett Otter - what is that? Is that on children's TV of some sort? The first Emmett that comes to my mind Emmett Till, and my husband says there's a really good football player who has this name (I have no idea about this).

An aside: We are under a lot of pressure about names in our family. My husband's family is holding their breath to see what I'm going to name the baby and are really worried about me giving the baby a "weird" name, which I guarantee you all of these will seem to them. They hated my daughter's name at first, because it was "too oldfashioned". Last night, his grandma said, "Oh we have such MASCULINE names in our family and very normal, I sure hope the baby is named a nice MASCULINE name." We're thinking of just telling them the baby will be named ESPN (pronounced ES-pin).

i think emmett is an awesome name. unique but not weird.

we had the hardest time choosing a boy's name. girls names are sooooo much easier. we wanted to come up with something cool,unique not weird, not easy to make fun of,etc. :
i think we finally came up with something good but i've already seen a couple mommas on here who have named their little boy what we picked.

I Elijah and Sebastian. I'm also with you on August. It's a very distinguished-sounding name.

Oh, Espn is a great name, too. :LOL

Oh, I love Oscar. Our son's name is Noah--which may fit your criteria.

Sebastian was my name of choice had my dd been born a boy. I love that name. My dad swore that my boy would be called "bastard" though.

My 2nd fave is Leland. Very cool & unique.
Elijah is super cool, but does seem to be getting popular. I also love Oliver.

My favs are Edison and Roosevelt. And I love Arlo too.

Leopold is a close second. Another option would be Aldo, like the naturalist Aldo Leopold.

I like a lot of your other names too. Leland and Franklin jump out at me.

To me the only down side of longer names like Roosevelt would be it would be harder to learn to spell when he was first learning. My name is Charlotte and in first grade our names were written on the front of our desks. I remember leaning over the top of my desk and craning my neck around to read how to spell my name. :LOL But nonetheless I haven't regretted being named Charlotte!

I like names that have significance to you, which I am picking up from your list.