Laura writes:<\/p>\n
I am due May 20th 2011 and I do not know the sex of the baby yet. I\u2019m doing okay with girl names but having no luck at all with boys. My husband and I have plain traditional names, Laura and Joshuah. We have an odd last name that I just don\u2019t worry about when naming a child because there is no helping it sound less funny. Our 1st child is named Cambria Rogue. We are looking for some unique but not to strange. Something almost romantic and masculine. Josh is into music I\u2019m into art and we are very open minded but just haven\u2019t run into something we both like for a boy. Our list is very small so far Josh like the name Bentley (I\u2019m not a huge fan) and I liked Adare (Josh isn\u2019t a fan) and that\u2019s where it stops. The only thing I think we are avoiding is the letter J. Any ideas?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
One of my favorite “romantic and masculine” names is Everest. It’s exotic but familiar. One of my friend Mairzy’s favorites is Sterling: again, exotic yet familiar. Other possibilities:<\/p>\n
Aidric
Alistair
August
Claude
Corbin
Cormac
Dario
Dashiell
Declan
Desmond
Donnelly
Edmund
Everett
Finian
Gabriel
Greyson
Heath
Hugo
Kiefer
Lachlan
Maverick
Orion
Pierce
Rafael
Redford
Rohan
Roman
Sebastian
Stefan
Theodore
Wyatt<\/p>\nSome of these might work particularly well as a middle name: Maverick, for example, would be a good pair with your daughter’s middle name Rogue.<\/p>\n
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