Honest opinions on unique and original boy names!!!?

Question

We want a unique but not strange names for our baby.

Lerato: African, "song of my soul"

Finlay: Irish, "fair-haired courageous one"

Enzo: Italian, "laurel"

August: Latin, "great/magnificent"

Tate: Middle English, "cheerful"

Romeo : Shakespearean hero

Selas: African, "trinity"

Magnus: Latin, "great"

Sirius : Greek, "dog star" (brightest star)

Soren: Latin, variant of Severus, "apart"/ Danish

Hugo: Germanic, "mine, heart or spirit"

Keb: African, "earth"

Hadley : Old English, "heather meadow"

Titus : Latin, "defender"

Alistair : Greek, "man's defender"

Nico : Greek, "victory of the people"

Cassius : Latin, "empty, robbed" (nickname: Cash)

Rowen: Gaelic, "little red one"

Kai: South African, "beautiful"

Zion: Hebrew, "highest point (heaven)"

Uriel: Hebrew, "flame of light/angel of God"

Truman : Old English, "loyal one"

Rocco : Italian, "rest

Grady: Irish, "renowned"

Wilder : German, "hunter"

Hudson : Old English, "son of Hugh"

Teague: Irish, "wise poet"

Leander : Greek, "lion man"

Thank

Answer 1

I'll rate them on a scale of 1-10 (1=hate,10=love)

Lerato ~ 5 (ok)

Finlay ~ 2 (sorry, I've just never liked this name...)

Enzo ~ 6 5 (not bad, kind of cute)

August ~ 5 (Nice name, but I think it sounds a bit feminine)

Tate ~ 3 (its ok. I think it would sound better as a middle name though)

Romeo ~ 10 (I love it! I call my dog "Romey" or "Romeo" although his name is Max. lol. Anyways, I think it is a great name!)

Selas ~ 3 (I don't really like it)

Magnus ~ 2 (Reminds me of the feminine name Maggie)

Sirius ~ 1 (It looks too much like the word "Serious" too me)

Soren ~ 4 (not great, but not terrible)

Hugo ~ 5 (ok)

Keb ~ 4 (a bit short, how about using it as a nn for Kebidiah or Kebney?

Hadley ~ 5 (ok)

Titus ~ 6 (Great biblical name, although I wouldn't name my kid that personally because of the whole "t*t" thing. People can be so mean and I would hate for him to be teases like that)

Alistair ~ 5 (ok, but I think its becoming a bit more popular now)

Nico ~ 7 (cute! you could use it as a nickname for Nicholas if you wanted.)

Cassius ~ 6 (not bad)

Rowen ~ 9 (I like this name!)

Kai ~ 7 (Its pronounced like Ky and rhymes with "eye" right? If so, I like it. How about the full name Kylor?)

Zion ~ 7 (nice)

Uriel ~ 7 (good)

Truman ~ 9 (i like it)

Rocco ~ 9 (nice)

Grady ~ 3 (sorry, but I don't really like this one. I like Brady better)

Wilder ~ 1 (sorry...don't like it)

Hudson ~ 1 (sorry...don't like this one either)

Teague ~ 4 (ok)

Leander ~ 10 (great name! I've never heard of it before, but its very cute!)

Would you like any suggestions? Here's a few if you do:

Justice

Chandler

Ricardo

Roland (rhymes with the country Holland)

Reginold

Darrien

Darren

Kaysar

Prescott

Henry

Julian

Marcellus

Landon

Floyd

Vernon

Kyson

Joshawa

Ivan

Irvin

Irving

Richmond

Seamus (Shay-mis)

Theodore

Xander/Zander

Silas

Evander

Arden

Westley/Wesley

The following are Greek names:

Adonis

Andreas

Artemas

Corydon

Damien/Damian

Demitrius/Demetrius

Genesis

Illias (i l l i a s)

Hector

Lysander

Kairos/Kyros

Jericho

Jason (one of my faves)

Lucas

Matthias

Maximos

Myron

Nicodemus

Nikkos

Philander

Orion

Philemon

Peter

Good luck and congrats! :o)

EDIT:

I love your daughters name: Soraya Ari. Its so pretty! I like the two meanings together like you said Leander means lion man and Soraya means lion princess. Thats so cute! I like Leander for a first name or middle name. It would work really well either way. I think these combinations sound good:

Leander Romeo

Leander August

Leander Hadley

Leander Cassius

&

Truman Leander

Rowen Leander

Cassius Leander

Romeo Leander

Lerato Leander

Good luck! :o)

Answer 2

Romeo, Sirius, Nico, Zion

Honestly those are the only ones that I really like....they are all very unique and nice names which are hard to find. The ones i picked I think are very masculine and are able to grow with a child into adolesence and adulthood. However, I think it's very thoughtful how u and ur husband are choosing "meaningful names" and i am confident that whichever name u do choose for your child will be very special to him. Good luck!

Answer 3

I like Leander and Rowen

Answer 4

i like tate

Answer 5

I like a lot of them. Creative without trying to be kre8tyve, if you know what I mean. Very refreshing. :)

Finlay, August, Tate, Silas (prefer this version), Magnus, Soren, Nico, Kai, Truman, Teague and Leander.

Tate is probably my favourite out of those.

Answer 6

Grady Leander (renowned,loin man)

Kai Leander (beautiful,loin man)

Finlay Leander (Fair haired courageous one,loin man)

Zion Leander (heaven,loin man)

Hugo Leander (mine,heart or spirit,loin man)

I love the five of these with the middle name of Leander.I love the meaning of each one together.Your daughter's name is beautiful.Good luck and best wishes.

Answer 7

August Leander - my favorite!

Finlay Leander (Finn)

Grady Leander

Nico Leander

Hope this helps, these are my absolute faves off your list. Btw, I love your daughter's name! You had a great idea and I respect it. Good luck to you and your family :)

Answer 8

I love Finlay, Hadley, Cassius, Truman, Hudson, Teague, and Leander =)

Leander is actually one of my top favorite boy's names. =)

Answer 9

My Momma has always said, "Before you name your baby. . go out on the back porch and yell it's full name!!!"  After you do that, you'll know just how strange it is!!!  SMILE!

Answer 10

I LOVE the name August. Definitely one of my favorite names right now. It's SOO cute. Other names I like from your list are Tate, Soren, Rowen, Kai, Rocco, Grady, Hudson, and Leander. I think August Leander would be so cute. Plus, it'd be so cute with your daughters name with the meaning being great/magnificent lion man.

Answer 11

I really like: Finlay, Tate, Rowen, Kai, Grady & Hudson! Those are really cute names!! I like Rowen a lot (but spelled Rowan).

Answer 12

I like Tate, Soren, Alistair, Cassius, Rowen (although this is being used for girls also), Nico, Cassius, Zion, Hudson, and Teague. my favorites are first Hudson and then Soren.

Answer 13

I think Leander with the lion meaning would match your little girl's name really well. How about Leander Amir? That would be Lion prince!! You might shorten it to Lander so you would have Suri and Lander.

Rowen is such a smooth, alluring name.  Rowen Grady would sound great and they are both Gaelic. Suri and Rowen sound good together.

Kai Lerado = beautiful song of my soul. Wow, that has the best meaning of all =]

Truman Magnus = great loyal one. They sound good together.

Props to you for choosing strong, handsome, meaningful names! Those are the ones I like best. Good luck =)

Answer 14

Amazing names!

Love love love them all so much.

After much though, my favorites are:

Kai Lerato ("beautiful song of the soul")

Leander Kai ("beautiful lion")

Truman Leander (Suri & Tru is so cute!)

good luck

Answer 15

I like these the best:

Finlay (Fin), August, Kai, Zion

I just wanted to add that Kai was the name of one of King Arthur's "knights of the round table". It also means many things in different languages- Greek: earth, Hawaiian: ocean, Native American(Navajo): willow tree, Scottish: fire, Welsh: keeper of the keys, Finnish: rejoice

(Its one of my favourite names!)

If you're up for suggestions... I also like Orion (hunter, the constellation), Cyrus(sun, lord, throne), Zephyr (west wind), Evander (archer, good man), Aslan (lion)

Answer 16

I like Tate, Titus, Alistair, NIco, Cassius, Kai, Grady, Hudson, and Leander.  Not so keen on the rest of them.

Answer 17

I like Nico and Alistair the best.

Answer 18

hey, my name is laurel...i like it!

ilike cassius too

Answer 19

i love cassius, or romeo is good

Answer 20

Kai

Leander & then middle name---- Laurel

Leander Laurel <333

Answer 21

I like Rocco, Truman, Kai, Romeo, and August