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

I have a Wolf and an Indigo! Fred is back in fashion, for the poster who thought it was a "grandad name." I have a nephew of 12 called that and his younger brother is George. What I can't understand is the return of Arthur, Stanley and Albert to popularity.

All my grandchildren have unusual or less than common names. My daughters love their very unusual names and this made them choose unusual names for their children. Victorian names are becoming popular now. My son was called George after my dear father. 40 years ago it was not common but is popular now. One grandchild has Irish names...Irish roots on both sides. The most important thing to do is remember that the child will have the name as an adult...something cute on a baby does not work for an adult....hahaha

Seconding the advice about giving full names; I heard a young solicitor on the radio recently bewailing the fact that he'd been named Freddie rather than Frederick. And even if it's the second name, I do think everyone should have a serious one, just in case they become a judge or undertaker or something - there was another radio programme with an academic historian called Tiffany, and my concentration was hammered everyone the presenter addressed her by name.

Yes, we tried to think of things that went well with our surname and also thought about initials. Some can be quite unfortunate like W C , or spell things like MAD . I know examples of both of these! As we all know some perfectly ok first names can be awful with certain surnames. I've met a Carol Singer, an Eileen Bending, a Teresa Green and a Helen Hunt. The last one doesn't sound too bad but unfortunately she was in charge of lost property and put up a notice saying 'If you've lost something, go to Helen Hunt'. (Say it out loud!)

My grandson (9) has a friend called Caspian, which I think is rather nice. They call him Caspy, though, which rather spoils it.

You need to be careful with initials too particularly if there are two first names. We had a Robert Charles in our class who became known as Bottom(out of politeness!)

Youngsters in our family now are Oscar, Reggie and Teddy.

My friends young grandsons are Harley and Oakley.

When I was expecting my two sons I immediately had girls names in mind but took much longer to decide on boys names, both finally settled after they were born. I'd liked my youngest's name from midway through the pregnancy but hadn't said anything as I thought his Dad would want to choose, but he never came up with anything so we went with my option.

My two DGS are called. Ethan and Thomas. The little one has friends called Bertie, Alfie, Albie, Archie and Zekkie.

Unusual baby boy names I have heard recently: Xander and Johannes

I rather like Xander (pronounced ‘zander’, like Alexander without the ‘Al’.

Talking about names fitting the surname I once had a consultant called Aldous Balls this is totally true a long time ago so he s long gone not

Just for the record, the boys in my family are called Casper James, Max Benjamin, Finn Hunter and Hudson Jack. Not all that off the wall and not all that common either.

When I was pregnant we decided we – well, I decided – we didn't want to know whether we would have a boy or a girl. It took us forever to come up with a girl's name that we both liked – and there was only the one name that we both liked. We did have a girl who has since legally changed her name because she hates it. If she had been a boy, he would officially have been called Baby Absent for his first 18 years.

Issac, Alexander, Scott, Josiah (my granddad's name). Get a book of children's names - and don't forget to look at their meanings!

paddyann..I think its lovely tradition to use the name of a family member ( in our case our parents names were used as middle names)
But unfortunately, my children don't!!! So short family tradition up in smoke!
To please me one of them has named their beautiful little dog after my Gf, I suppose that will have to do!!
We chose our childrens Christian names by pairing them with the surname and checking there was no embarrassing nick names in hiding .

I promised my OH's Granny I would call a son after her late husband as she said she had always been sad she she didn't have a son.To avoid issues with other family members I gave him that name as his middle name and as his other 3 Ggf's all had the same first name he got that as his first name ..we call him by his middle name though and always have ..but all the grans and greats were delighted .My D gave my dads name as her sons middle name to start a tradition of GG's names being used.We like it and my son says if his next is a boy he'll do the same .
Maybe your daughter could look at family names and try something similar?

All young parents seem to want something "unique" for their child. I even read of a girl in the US who called her baby "You-nique" to make sure that it was in fact unique.

Oh, I know loads of little Milos.

Traditional, but slightly outside the norm:
Marcus
Benedict
Dominic
Ethan
Seth
Lucas
Jonathan
Nathaniel
Gregory
Oscar
Jasper

A young neighbour has called her new baby Milo. Slightly different but not ‘out there’ IYSWIM.

I suppose if you chose Zebedee you would have to be too young to remember the Magic Roundabout

As soon as DC1 arrived I knew that her name was not the one we had chosen but her name came straight to my mind as the midwife showed her to me. It was not one we had even thought of.

I don't get this thing of seeing what they look like. We just chose names we liked. I don't think babies look like any particular name.
Some suggestions:
Jeremiah
Rory
Aaron
Jago
Caleb
Zebedee
Lucas
Aidan
Sebastian
Tyler

These are not particularly names I like (I prefer traditional ones) but are at least proper names and not made up!

Yes, a subsequent child of ours was given the name chosen for the first!!

It appears from reading through these, that I wasn't the only one to have a name picked out for our daughter. But, when she was born, she didn't look like 'one of those' so we changed it. Much later she called her first daughter by the name she would have been. IYSWIM

Yes, a lot depends on the surname.

I have heard of one or two corkers lately - but at least they were females and changed their names when they got married.

I like Simeon