How about Icarus?
Try looking through Shakespeare names, I kinda like **Prospero **and **Caliban **from The Tempest. Or **Petruchio **from Taming of the Shrew.
Zoltan. There just aren’t enough Zoltans around these days.
Oh, another one that’s bully-repellent: Ivan!
{{{Maggie}}}!!! Remember me? Wonder Man and I are procreating too! I’m due at the end of the month 
Corin’s on our boy list. Gabriel would be top, except Wonder Man says kids would call him Gay for short and beat him up in the playground. I kind of like Raphael, too, and Tobias, and Sebastian, and Theo. Also I’ve heard Kester as a very old-fashioned short-for-Christopher - I like that.
Actually, if it’s a boy, we’ll probably end up going with something relatively subdued, but the more interesting ones are at least fun to play with… Boy names are harder than girl names. There’s such a fine line between Boring and Playground Beating.
P.S. I really, really like both Alexander and Anthony, but they’re both out for us.
Too close to “keister.”
snort That’s not really a word over here, but it’s still funny.
How about Alaric? First king of the Visigoths! How can you go wrong? (And it’s a name I would have been pushing, except we had only girls.)
Only because of people like one of my classmates who would only answer to Lar-RA not Laura, despite being spelled exactly like every Laura in the school…
Well, look no further, my friend. Arthur is truly the finest name out there for a little boy.
Really, it’s great. Kids don’t realize it’s an old-man name, and you get the fun of having adults saying “his name is what???” Plus, you’d get to call him Arturito!
Obviously, I have an Arthur. He’s 7.
That’s for damn sure. With all the Sophies and Isaacs and Hannahs and Sams running around, the playground sounds like a Jewish retirement home.
Ha, no, that is my dad’s name. Maybe Ivan born in 2009 wouldn’t get teased, but naming your child Ivan in 1957, in the middle of the Cold War? What was my grandmother thinking?
Someone upthread said Peter is too ordinary, but it is fairly unusual these days. My 15 year old brother is Peter, never Pete, and I don’t know any other younger kids with that name.
My son’s name is Dashiell; after Mr. Hammett, of course. One of my earlier choices was Angelo (after one of my favorite places, San Angelo, TX) but the missus slapped a big 'ol “Hell NO!” on that one.
Had he been a girl, the top contender for a name would have been Arden.
Name him Anne, after the 16th-century French general Anne de Montmorency. If anyone makes fun of him for his name, tell him to kick them in the nuts as hard as he can, and then smash their nose in. He will grow up to be a great man.
Orion wasn’t that uncommon a name in the 19th century (it was the name of Mark Twain’s brother, career bureaucrat and financial catastrophe Orion Clemens) but was pronounced OR-ee-un.
I have 4 sons and four daughters, the boys names are Aaron Thian, Shawn Adam, Jesse Alexander and Andreas Gerhardt.
I came in here to suggest Declan and also Duncan, which is what my Josie would have been if she were a boy. Not sure if that violates the last-name-as-first-name rule, though.
LOVE the name Arden for a girl. Husband nixed it.
I’ve been advocating Aaron for boys for awhile now. I only really noticed it because it’s my boyfriend’s name, but it has a lot going for it. It’s traditional, even Biblical, but you don’t see it all over the place. It’s easy to spell (assuming they don’t think he’s a girl, which happens to Himself sometimes) and he’ll be at the front of the phone book if he ever wants to start a business under his first name.
Satchel!
At one time I would have advocated bringing Paris back into the masculine side, but really I like Hector better.
I used that as a name in a short story back in 2001, and it didn’t really seem to be a name to have come back (it only shows up in the top 1000 girls names at the SSA baby name site from 1929-31) for girls yet. I’m kind of glad it seems to have become slightly more popular.