And here’s the eclectic boy’s names list – comments and suggestions welcome.

[Epacris]

OK so here is the boy’s names list thread.

Just to recap:

Rules:
- Must go with Angus and Harriet.
- Must not be too popular.
- Preferably not start with R, A or H (although this rule is a bit flexible because I like too many A names).

Here is the (sort of) finalised (nothing's final till the form’s filled in) girl’s names list:
Elise
Adelaide
April
Eleanor
Miranda
Lucinda
Eloise
Sydney
Dorothy

And here is the boy’s – comments and suggestions most welcome! As you can see, I've got a few "issues" with this list.
Basil – OK so this is the front runner. It’s got its own thread: here and my darling sweet grandfather died a few weeks ago so it’s bittersweet for me.
Stanley – I don’t know why I love this but I do. I think it’s because of the way Emily Brown says “and his name is NOT Bunny-wunny, it’s STANLEY!” (from “That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown”).
Alfred
George
Marcus – doesn’t go with Angus, I suppose I could just drop the “us”.
Douglass – doesn’t go with Angus, I like full names so I couldn’t officially shorten it to Doug.
Fergus – again, doesn’t go with Angus.
Leo
Barry – doesn’t go with Harriet, we often call her Harri and also call her “big bad Barry”.
Edward
Rohan – I LOVE this name but we absolutely cannot use it because DH’s sister has a DS Rowan.

[Trillian]

Easy - Basil, George and Leo are my faves. Basil George as a first and secod name sound pretty good too.

[Santosha]

I love Leo.

[Jennie13]

Leo, Basil & Edward are my fav's

A freind of mine has a DS Leonidus (again with the 'us') I quite like it coz its so different, he gets Leo

[*Belle*]

Leo is gorgeous hon, sounds good with both Angus and Harriett

[Traveller]

I love Stanley and Alfred, those would be my favourites from your list

[Blixie]

Ooh like Basil! We had an elderly neighbour when i was younger his name was Basil, he used to let us "help" him in the garden and fill his bird feeder/bird bath Works well with the sibling names too i think.

The others on your list i like are Leo and George

[~Kim~]

Easy - Basil, George and Leo are my faves. Basil George as a first and secod name sound pretty good too.

couldn't have said it better.

[PollyA]

A couple of extra that your list reminded me of


Albert
Walter
Cecil
Desmond

Leo's my favourite too!

[Ginger]

I like basil and Edward. For girls I like April and Lucinda.
Basil is super cool.

[sconeonamission]

Basil...

We had Leonard, Vincent and Layne on our list

[Party-of-five]

Stanley then Basil

[Epacris]

So glad to see the Basil fan club out in full force. I hope he looks like a Basil then.

[Astrolady]

I think Edward will get popular, with the whole Twilight thing.

I like Basil and Leo.

[Deedles]

I love the name Leo but I do know about 4 Leo's in DS's daycare. So Leo seems to be becoming quite a popular name.
I really love Basil and George too!

[RhiChiChi]

My pick is Leo

[Mumma22beautifulgirls]

Another fan of Leo here!

[Epacris]

Thanks everyone.

I love that your list is mainly names you can't use!

I know, I know! (I’m rolling my eyes at myself, btw ).

Gosh, Leo is a popular choice isn’t it.... but since I put it on the list, I’ve decided that it reeeeealy doesn’t go well with our surname, way too many “O” sounds.

Polly A, MadB and sconeonamission – thanks for those suggestions, they are the kind of names that we like (and actually MadB, my other grandfather is Eric).

helle – we thought about Theodore/Theo, but now it has the same problem as Leo.

Ash – We can’t use Rohan, we just can’t, but if we did I’m sure I would say it Ro-harne!!! Because it’s just such a great word to say like that.

So this is what I’m left with now.

Basil
Alfred
George
Edward