my daughter cant decide on boy's names for her first baby

When my brother was born, Mum was encouraged to call him by her maiden surname. As this was a Polish name, it was quickly discounted for a Saint's name.

Yes I have a cousin called Alexandrina. She is known as Ina.

Elrel. l quite like the name but it is not back in fashion yet.

It was quite common to use the names of male family members but instead of using the female version (Peter and Patricia ) they took the male name and added 'ina'
I knew a Hughina and a Jamesina.

Greenfinch - Only this morning a friend was telling us about her Auntie Mina! She was Williamina, a Scot.

If I had a boy I would have named him Sebastian after a character on TV at the time played by Oliver Reed my all time passion.

If you were to tell us the surname, perhaps we could have a poll on GN.

We do need the surname to avoid embarrassing combinations of names or initials.

pollyperkins
Poor girl!

There are some nice ship's names though!

Or even Ugley. I believe the Ugley WI had to change its name!

Good job those couples who choose their offsprings name because of where they were conceived didn’t go on holiday to Giggleswick or Pratt’s Bottom?

Thank goodness for that

In the 1960s when I lived in Portsmouth we knew a man who named his daughter after all tge navy ships he'd served on. It was something like: Fearless Illustrious Neptune Victory Porpoise.
People tended to mishear and call her Phyllis.

Many of the females in my family were called Williamina.By the time it got to my grandmother b 1889 it was spelt Wilhelmina.She was known as Meenie.

The daftest one I heard of was Kreg. Apparently named because he was conceived in a K Registered Astra! Poor child will be so embarrassed when he grows up!

We had a Fred in the family, but only because her name was Winifred, known always to her DH as Fred.

My father, grandfather and great grandfather were all David. Had I been a boy I'd have been David IV. Then my sister arrived, then another sister. My granny was getting tetchy so my parents gave her name, Margaret, to my youngest sister as a second name. Mum's brother, father and various 'greats' were all John. Luckily the names Ethel and Ida (Maternal gran and her sister) have not been resurrected as far as I know.

My grandson is called Christopher but is known as Kit. I think it does depend on the surname is though.

I was sitting in the bus behind 2 very mature ladies, one said to the other, 'Gladys, has your grand-daughter had her baby yet?, Gladys replied, 'Oh yes she had a little boy', Muriel asked, what did she call him?' Gladys answered 'Oh wait a minute, it is one of those new fangled names', 'Oh yes they called him ADAM ', I couldn't help but laugh.

If I had chosen a name to suit my daughter when she was born she would have been named beaty ( short for Beatrice) because she was bright red and looked pickled.
She is a beauty now though and tells me she would have liked the name Poppy

I have a Rufus and a Wilfrid (second i rather than an e).

how about the surnames as first name trend...
Logan
Blair
Cameron
McKenzie
Craig
etc etc

If you can’t find an unusual name you like, then make one up.A lot of people seem to!

Frederick ( and indeed all German names made popular by Victoria and Albert) were ‘all the rage’ until the advent of the War in 1914, I suspect that after the war all those names were
Quietly dropped.

One of my relations, born in the early 20th century, was christened Bessie. She changed it to Elizabeth as soon as she could, and I only knew her as Elizabeth. When she was a little girl she came home from school talking about a friend apparently called Jumping Nellie. She was actually called Joan Pengelly.

Back to unusual names for boys. My granddaughter (6) kept talking about a friend apparently called Fergie. It turned out she was saying Ferdy. “His proper name is Ferdinand”.

Pen50- I so agree with you, our solicitor is called Sindy, what sort of name is that for a professional woman? I just keep thinking of the doll with a rather large head!
My DGS has the shortened version of a ‘proper’ name, why not just give him the longer version with more gravitas
( handy for him when he’s the CEO of a top company??)and then shorten it? I foresee a trend for lengthening coming on.