- Alaric
- ə-LAH-rik
- Very unusual and mature, and hard to pull off
- Aloysius
- al-ə-WISH-əss
- Long and extravagant with no obvious nickname options, difficult to spell and pronounce, and a hard name to pull off
- Artemis 'Artie'
- It's the name of a Goddess (not even a God)
- Atticus
- Aubrey
- Too common on girls nowadays (or so I'm led to believe, as it's not common on anyone here)
- Aurelian
- o-REEL-ee-ən
- Too long and extravagant with no nickname options
- Aurelius
- o-REEL-ee-əss
- Too long and extravagant with no nickname options
- Avery
- Too common on girls nowadays (apparently, anyway, as with Aubrey)
- Caius
- KY-əss
- Very out-there, hard to pull off
- Castiel 'Cas'
- kass-tee-EL
- Too obviously Supernatural
- Dashiell 'Dash'
- DASH-əl
- A bit too out-there
- Draco
- DRAKE-oh
- Too obviously Harry Potter, quite ominous-sounding
- Griffin
- It’s a mythical creature, not really suitable for a human
- Ianto
- Joren ‘Jory’
- A bit strange, hard to pull off
- Lenner
- It's a made-up spelling of the feminine Lena (unless you say hard Rs - but I don't, and a dream about a male Lena is what made me think this up in the first place)
- Loki
- LOKE-ee
- It’s the name of the Norse God of Mischief
- Misha
- Too feminine-sounding nowadays
- Mordred
- The Arthurian legend association is way too big and obvious
- Mortimer
- Quite old-fashioned and overly posh
- Octavian
- Too long and extravagant with no nickname options
- Octavius
- Too long and extravagant with no nickname options
- Robin
- Often associated as feminine, might be seen as poncey
- Sumner
- Too close to the feminine Summer
- Sylar
- Valerian
- və-LEER-ree-ən
- Very long herb name with no nickname options
- Wesley 'Wes'
- West
jul 21 2012 ∞
mar 11 2013 +