First son of Root

[BertRoot]

Found out yesterday the wife is carrying my first male progeny.

Any ideas on names as I ain't got a clue.

[Fear345]

Ernie ?

Congrats btw

[Breamy]

bernard

[Roach-Rampino]

Before we found out what we were having (back in Dec while we were in SA) we had a girls name all sorted but no boys name...and typically we've had a boy!

Short list names for boys were:

Cameron
Domonic
Callum
Nathan
Bradley
Luke
Ben

All of these sound pretty good with your surname too I think.


oh and Carmine which was my idea from Sopranos but promptly shot down in flames by the missus lol

[Freddy]

DeepRoot

Congratz man.

[Nibb]

Congrats mate.....always nice to pass the family name along!

The Top 20 Boys names for 2006!
1) Jack 2) Thomas 3) Joshua 4) Oliver
5) Harry 6) James 7) William 8 ) Samuel
9) Daniel 10) Charlie 11) Benjamin 12) Joseph
13) Callum 14) George 15) Jake 16) Alfie
17) Luke 18 ) Matthew 19) Ethan 20) Lewis

Personally I would go for the more traditional names of Albert; Stanley; Cecil; Clifford; Algernon, but then again I am a bit mad!

[liveseytowers]

Arthur? Congrats buddy thats good news

[MsDG]

The obvious choice is to go for the same name as the father.

Are you actually on 1st name terms with your postman?

[CzarJunkie]

Here's a list I compiled before I kicked my malaysian housemaid so fucking hard she had a miscarriage and lost the baby. If only she'd cleaned the glassware better that day I'd have my own son and heir by now. Here's the fucking list anyway:

Maximilian
Polperro
Peregrine
Lancelot
Marmaduke
Alan

[muttleymacclad]

Congrats bert.

what about Auto...

MML

[crashtestmac]

How about "Beat"

Funky and goes well with your surname of Root.

or
Tree

Or

Loginas Root

Crash

[DannyLad]

Congrats mate, surprised you had time to get her up the duff - you're never off DF

Oh, I've got no ideas on names, theres plenty of time yet, you'll come up with something.

[funkyg]

Hey, congrats on your jizz taking hold!
I'd try and avoid anything on Nibb's list (nothing personal Nibb!), because it's the top 20. We did a similar thing with our first girl, called her Chloe. We didn't know at the time, but this was the top name for girls around that time and there are four Chloe's in her class at school.
For our second child we went for something less common, and went for Elise. (I always wanted a Lotus Elise but couldn't afford it!)
It's a good job we didn't have boys because we were really struggling for names. A couple that did come up in our discussions often were Joshua and Jacob. Just sounded right. However Joshua is on that list so steer clear!

[crashtestmac]

@funkyg
Jacob was on the 2 years before i think.......

I am trying to get the wife to open her mind a bit, how can you have an exciting life with a dull name she has agreed that if it is a boy i can name it if it is a girl she will....

I am aiming for
Hunter
Fox
Pheonix

But she is not warming, i was not allowed Blade for my first son either.

Baaaahhhhhhhh

[BertRoot]

Hmmm some great suggestions. Will be steering clear of most popular but in so doing you normally go for something that will become part of the top twenty.

Humphrey is my favourite but she ain't biting but maybe she will when I suggest Cuthbert, Gaylord, Quentin and Horace.

[funkyg]

Will be steering clear of most popular but in so doing you normally go for something that will become part of the top twenty.

That's what we found with Elise. Didn't know of any others but there are a couple of others round our way now. Was getting my hair cut a couple of months ago, and the tottie doing it has Elise tattooed on her wrist so I mentioned it. She said "Yeah I'd never heard of it before, but I used to take my other daughter to a playgroup and there was this woman who took her granddaughter called Elise. Thought it was a lovely name."
"Yeah, that's my daughter and mother in law."
It's out there, spreading.

[BertRoot]

She had a girls name tattooed on her wrist after hearing the name at a playgroup? She needs a kick in the ass unless she has now called a child Elise.

[gunner]

Congratulations mate.

I have always liked the name Grendon.

[funkyg]

She had a girls name tattooed on her wrist after hearing the name at a playgroup? She needs a kick in the ass unless she has now called a child Elise.

LOL, yes. Sorry I probably didn't make myself clear. The next one she popped out was named Elise, after my princess. Hence that tat.
Fricking name thief. If I hadn't already had my balls clipped, I'd have called the next one cunt or piss-flaps. Let's see someone steal THAT name!

[pizza-man]

call the baby after the dad

so how does DF-FORUM sound LOL

congrats m8
and give ur wife 1 from me