Looking for boys names to get my mind working again

[being-lola-star.livejournal.com]

Coming up with names for a story baby. I know that the baby will eventually be Cleo Autumn but for the majority of the pregnancy I want the parents to have a perfect boy's name picked out as it's assumed that the couple will have a boy in one of those cliche "we only have boys" sort of things. I've been tossing around the name Jack but I'm not stuck on it and I'm looking for ideas, either for something to go with Jack as a middle name or an alternative first name which could have been a grandfather's name. Baby has no siblings.

Then there's also the matter of naming a cousin who will be born a few months after and be the boy the family was expecting. That baby however will absolutely *NOT* be named after the grandfather. This baby has three older half siblings from Mum: brother James called "Jamie" or "JJ" (named after his dad), sister Keira and sister Seanassey "Seany" (Shawn-Ah-See: a play on mom's maiden name O'Shaughnessy). It will be the first child for dad, who is completely surprised by the concept of having a child.

Basically I'm just looking for a lot of boys names to get my mind working again. I feel like I've worked over all the names I thought might work and had to get rid of it for one reason or another.

Comments

[iftherainstops.livejournal.com]

Theodore James is the first name that popped into my mind.

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

Joseph?

How old fashioned do you want to go? My grandfathers were Russell and Walter. My kid's would be Donald, Eduardo and Michael.

[being-lola-star.livejournal.com]

Joseph might actually work. It's got a lot of nickname options. I'm looking for something old fashioned with a little bit of a working class rural to it. I'll probably end up sticking with Jack and coming up with a middle name that works with that. And Jack, not Jackson. I work in childcare and if I see one more Jackson, Jaxon, Jaxxon, I'm going to throw a fit.

Theodore would get shortened automatically. That leaves me with Theo or Teddy. Theo is too close to Cleo for my taste and I have a friend called Teddy and a pet rat called Teddy (though it's unrelated despite the fact that she's got a guinea pig called Lola...) James is out because of JJ and is dad. First brother would never use it as a name because James is most definitely his sister-in-laws ex-husband.