Need a name to go with Liam for twin boys

We're having a very hard time with names this time around and I'd love some help! We have a very long, hard to pronounce last name (it's Czech) so first names need to be simple and easy to spell. Our other kids' names are Colin, Teagan & Meghan. I don't mind the names not ending with "n" - it just so happened the names we liked all ended with it. I also don't like anything rhyming (even Teagan & Meghan are a bit too close for my liking, but we loved both names and couldn't change either since they fit the girls so well.)

So this time around I like the name Liam, and am leaning toward that for one of the boys. Middle names will be Kenneth (after my Dad) and Peter (DH's middle name). Other names on the table have been Nolan, Ryan, Caden, Quinn and Cade, but they have all been taken off for various reasons. And we can't use anything starting with "P" since our last initial is "P" and I don't want the initials to be "PP". :laughing:

Is anyone up for the challenge? Thanks!!

 

I was going to say Nolan...but see that you've already considered that.

Connor, Brendan, Ryan, Brady, Owen, Declan, Kevin

 

Jude
Cole (both these names we have in our family)
Joel
Burke
Griffin (Griff for short)
Blake

(I love one-syllable boys' names.) Good luck let us know what you come up with.

 

Ronan :wub:
Rory
landry
Logan
Asher
Caleb
Daniel
Evan
Ian
Jesse
samuel
ty
Wyatt

 

I like Ronan too! Are all of your names Irish - do you want to stick with that?
Most of the ones I think go well have already been mentioned but here goes:
Owen
Ian
Noah
Eli
Cale
Jacob
Bryce

 

How about Liam & Aiden?

 

Thank you so much for the suggestions! I love Griffin - I hadn't even thought of that one before. I really like Ian too, but Ian and Teagan are so similar sounding that I know I'd get tongue-tied with them. I like Ronan too - that's another one we hadn't considered. It gets a lot tougher once older kids are in school doesn't it? A lot of the names that I like are friends of the kids, so I wouldn't do that. Or are names family members have used (or have called dibs on) <_< . One that I absolutely fell in love with was Finn, but DH said it was too fishy (and he loves to fish, so thought people would think that's why we picked the name). THis would be a whole lot easier if DH didn't get a say! :laughing:

I will definitely be running down these lists with DH tonight to see if he likes any of them. Silly men.

ETA: We really didn't plan on having Irish/celtic names on purpose. It just so happened that everything we liked fell into that category. So we're open to all types of names.

 

Dh has nephews Liam, Connor & Brendan so I automatically was going to suggest Connor or Brendan.

And of course if we are talking all these Irish names, there is always Seamus!

oh and Mo, my MIL's favorite name ever is Declan.

 

Off the top of my head, and before I actually read beyond the subject line, I was going to suggest Owen. Then I saw your other kids' names and saw that they're all fairly Celtic too (Owen is actually Welsh, but same general part of the globe) -- so either another name like that would be good, or maybe you're trying to get away from that!

But since you said your last name is Czech, I wouldn't go with something that just screams Irish, like Seamus or Declan. The names you've already chosen, while they are Celtic/Irish, are not quite so exclusively Irish.

I happen to really like the names Daniel and Luke -- but Luke and Liam might be a little too alliterative (it also makes me think of Luke and Laura from General Hospital in the 80s -- which shows my age).

 

Gavin, Riley, Aidan, Carson or Conor

 

My BIL last name is Prowzowski (sp? I think) and their boys are Conrad and Ian...however, if you already have a Colin...and Ian and Liam is really too close if you like Liam...

How about
Alexander (Alex, Alec, Sandy, Xander)
Keith
Patrick
Quinn
Devon


From PP, I like Rory and Joel.

 

I would tend to like Gavin, but DH had 2 roommates named Gavin (and one turned out to be a druggie who they had to literally evict after only a month!) So I don't have great memories of that name. And one of our good friends used it too. Owen is one that DH vetoed, so that's out (he thought it sounded a little too redneck, so he must have known a redneck owen somewhere!) I love Connor, but DH knew a bartender named Connor and hated him. :headbang: And yeah, I don't want to go too Irish/Celtic because we don't even have a drop of it in either of us, and we already get questioned about it all the time. So maybe it's time to branch out a little. Aiden is another one I would love, but one of DS's best friends is Aiden, so no go there. I love the name Luke, but I agree that with Liam it's soo much alliteration (and I remember Laura and Luke too!) One of our best friends is Ryan, so that's out and another is Brendan, so that's out. Same with Kyle. I liked Logan for a while, but a good friend has a Logan and we see them a decent amount.

LOL! It's so hard this time! It seems like for every name we come up with or like, there's a "but so-and-so has it" or bad thoughts attached. Another one I loved was Cameron, and that would have fit right in, but there's a little girl on DS's t-ball league names Camryn, so DH thinks it's a girly name. Even though it's spelled different and all that.

I do love Quinn, but it seems to be getting more androgynous as people name their girls it. And I'd like something that's still more boyish.

Ok, so here's our top list for baby #2 so far thanks to all these great recommendations: Griffin, Quinn, Nolan and Cameron (I'm refusing to give that up, maybe DH will have a change of heart on delivery day?). DH really liked Griffin, so that may end up being the winner, but I can't help feeling like we need to see him to name him.

 

I love Griffin too! My good friend has b/g twins just after mine were born and they are Gwen and Griffin. So cute!

 

Oh and my sister's little 4 year old is Hudson. I love that name too!

 

ethan!

 

If you go with Nolan, you and I will have three kids with the same names .

I love Griffin. A friend of ours has a son named Griffin and it is just such a great name!!

I didn't know what I was having, but even upon being told what I had, I had to actually look at my kids to name them. My husband laughs because in my drugged out state after having Liam, I asked that they take his diaper off so I could see ALL of him before I named him. :laughing:

 

I have a son named Quentin, so if you add a tin/ten/ton to Quinn that'd make it more manly. Other names I have seriously considered over the years are Logan and Thad(deus)... I also liked Gavin and Ian. And I am almost half Scottish, which was part of the reason I considered some of those names.

 

I love the name Noah.. as a PP has suggested. Griffin is also a lovely name

 

I love Quinn and Griffin (you could call him Finn for short if you wanted). Nolan and Carson are also nice.

How about: Sawyer?(some one in our twins club has boys named Sawyer and Griffin) Ethan? Garrett (similiar to Gavin, but not by too much)? Cooper?

 

Just wanted to update... We decided to name the boys Kian and Griffin.

The more I got thinking about Liam and the more we got looking around the less we wanted to use it. I know quite a few pregnant women right now using the name and I really wanted something a little more unique. So we started talking about going with Ian, but the little brother on Olivia is Ian and I kept thinking of it as a piggy name. :FIFblush: So then DH suggested Cian, but we agreed that people would pronounce it See-an instead of Kee-an, so we decided on Kian and I love it.

So there you go - a very roundabout way of getting to names, but I feel better that they won't be born nameless.