A brother for Elodie?

[Chocolateporridge]

We chose Elodie because we thought it was really pretty and uncommon where we live, and because we loved it as soon as we heard it, not because it was French, and now we've found out our next dc is a boy we're a bit stumped! There's no name that totally jumps out at us as "the one" like Elodie's did and our long term favourite boys name was taken by a very close friend!

We quite like the idea of a Biblical name or another French name, but we have a double barrelled surname so don't want anything too pretentious.

Any suggestions?!

[QisforQcumber]

Theodore
Tristan
Sebastian
Luc

[QisforQcumber]

Oh forgot my favourite! Louis (Louie)

[ButterflyOfFreedom]

Jonah
Caleb
Gabriel
Reuben

I like the suggestions of Sebastian and Louis.

[Chocolateporridge]

Great minds think alike, I love Theo and Sebastian we have them on our tentative list!

[Chocolateporridge]

Oh, Louis is nice, I hadn't thought of that. Reuben is the only one that me and dh have sort of agreed on, do you think it could be shortened to Ben?

[QisforQcumber]

I know a Reuben but we call him "Roo", its very cute I must admit.

[Chocolateporridge]

Oh I love that, Roo is so cute

[QisforQcumber]

It reminds me of the tenacious little kangaroo in Winne the Pooh

[Koothrapanties]

I like James. Elodie and James sounds lovely, but it isn't a 'different' name.

[BlueChampagne]

Conrad - unusual but not unheard of.

[Branleuse]

Louis (louie)

[threepiecesuite]

I like Patrick and think Pat for a little boy is very sweet.

[Gingerjv]

Elijah/Eliah sounds great with Elodie to my mind;-)

[Chocolateporridge]

James is one of my favourites but it's also my brother's name, I don't think he needs his ego boosting further . It's so weird, but Elijah and Elisha are also two that I like but dh is determined not to have another name beginning with "E" as we already have a few in our family.

It's reassuring to know that other mumsnetters automatically came up with the same combinations as I did! Any other suggestions?

[SweetPeaPods]

I was going to suggest James...
What about Jacob?
Thomas, William.

[bubalou]

What about Eden.

Eden and Elodie?

There is a dc with this name at DS school.

[temporaryusername]

Sorry no fab ideas for names to go with it, but Elodie is lovely!

[Superrhan]

My neighbour had an Elodie and the little brother was Alex.

[Chocolateporridge]

Aaargh, 8 weeks to go and I'm still no further forward! Reuben is sort of my favourite but still doesn't grab me like my dd's name did!

Any more suggestions?

[ThinkIveBeenHacked]

Elodie and Simon

[Chocolateporridge]

Hmmmmmm...... that IS nice!

[figgieroll]

Augustine
Benedict
George
Gilbert
Hugo
Remy
Serge
Xavier
Xandar

[okeydonkey]

Blase? Not sure how spelt but believe its French

[ThinkIveBeenHacked]

Just what came to mind when I said Elodie and its not overused at all.