Names for a new arrival to the English nation.

[Sylvanus]

I suggest the Reginald. However the oldnorse form of this the Rögnvaldr is more cool but a little bit daring nowadays.

[Germanicus]

How about Mohammad, giving your child that name would be a typically British nowadays, plus he won't feel abnormal with his classmates at school??

[Turkey]

I found out last night that all the Saxon names died out not long after the conquering by the normans.

We stopped calling ourselves Ethelred etc and started the Williams, Edwards etc.

I suppose everyone copied the Norman ruling class.

[Osweo]

Um... I'll scan it tomorrow... I was painting a second floor external wall till it got dark today. And quite a while while it WAS dark.

Anyway, people are forgetting this requirement;

Anglo-Saxon in origin.

- No Normans need apply! :nono:

I suggest the Reginald. However the oldnorse form of this the Rögnvaldr is more cool but a little bit daring nowadays.

Norse/Norman. We do have the more familiar Ronald, mind. A distant cousin of mine who fell in the Great War had the variant Reynold (which actually goes VERY well with my surname... Hmm!).

The English would have been Raegnwald.

Robert is a grand name.

Frankish/Norman. Hrothbeorht is a possible English form though.

Thor. Not uncommon in some places.

Places far from Somerset, mind!

I've never been comfortable with the idea of giving a blatant God's name. And I'm sick to death of Freyas.

Herbert

A shame the way this has fallen from grace. Herebeorht! A gleaming army! There was a saint of the name who lived on an island in the Lake District...

Archibald & Angus, Barnaby and Gilbert.

Eorcenbald! Angus is Gaelic. Barnaby... well, it looks like a placename (Bjarni's village), but is probably a Biblical Barnabas. Gilbert is Norman.

[Turkey]

A shame the way this has fallen from grace. Herebeorht! A gleaming army! There was a saint of the name who lived on an island in the Lake District...

My grand mothers maiden name was Herbert. A lot of the English names are considered poofy now which sux.E.g. Erwin

And the silliest of all Gertrude

It's a shame.

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[heyaitsme]

Dunstan and Oswiu/Oswi/Osweald/Oswald and Beorn.

Not to offend... but is your wife OK with those names!?!?

[Óttar]

Osborn. Norse Asa 'a god' Born - Bjorn 'Man.'

Sure is better than 'He kills.'

[Osweo]

Osborn. Norse Asa 'a god' Born - Bjorn 'Man.'

Asbjorn is Norse, but Osbeorn is a fine English name. I just hope it being the surname of the present LibDem Chancellor of the Exchequer doesn't put people off from this venerable name.

[Beorn]

depends on what it is!

It is a boy.

Not to offend... but is your wife OK with those names!?!?

She is taking to the name Dunstan. She doesn't mind me giving my boys Anglo-Saxon names (she gets the girls) aslong as it isn't too obscure and difficult to pronounce.

Sure is better than 'He kills.'

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/qu%C3%A4len

[Troll's Puzzle]

My grand mothers maiden name was Herbert. A lot of the English names are considered poofy now which sux.E.g. Erwin

And the silliest of all Gertrude

It's a shame.

I don't think old English names are considered poofy. I wouldn't consider Erwin a poofy. Gertrude, OK it sounds silly today, as does Egbert and other Egg's. But, a lot of blicks from jamaica etc have struttin' anglo names like Winston, Oswald, Reginald, and so on. Actually, most people I can think of with such today names are blick. While English boys have genuinely poofie names like Alfie or Harry or Charlie. They aren't even full names, yet those 3 are in the top 10. I think it's kind of (sadly) appropriate that blacks take the more bombastic Anglo-names, while ours get ghey sounding abbreviations. That should change.

Re. Cedric, I always liked the name I didn't think of 'Sir Dick' though... and it sounds a touch old (but not too old)... but at least he could a flash motor with his name already on it


anyway... how about Æthelwulfherewerweo?