Top notch alpha names--list away!

[Pamela(AllHoney)]

I had plans on "brendan" if I ever had a boy. But I can't have children so that fell through. This was before Brendan Fraiser became famous. Yes, I'm old. Hubby has an Irish name so it would have gone together good.

[Eastofoz]

Valentine Corbett from Suzanne Enoch's Sin and Sensibility An incredible rake to boot ;)

[Stephanie]

I like Ethan...

[Eastofoz]

Ethan's grown on my too since reading Jess Michaels' Everything Forbidden --has certain sex appeal to it now (lol!) ;)

[Stephanie]

I never really cared for the name until I read Lucy Monroe's Satisfaction Guaranteed. Ethan is the very sexy hero.

[Eastofoz]

Oh yeah, Ethan was quite a hot number in that one too come to think of it ;)

[Miss Kim]

For heroes, I like 'Jack' and 'Nick'.

Ethan is my 10 yr old nephews name--I try to block that out. haha.

[Teryl]

Loved Nora Robert's hero, Ethan from the Quinn series, such a sweetie!

[Stephanie]

Kim wrote: "For heroes, I like 'Jack' and 'Nick'.

Ethan is my 10 yr old nephews name--I try to block that out. haha."

Nick is my 7 year olds name....gotta block that!

[Stephanie]

I am reading a book now with a Broady in it. A very manly, hero name.

[Miss Kim]

Unless you have a weird Uncle Brody.

[Teryl]

Ty is a great name, but it's my kid's name so that one is a little difficult for me.

[Tammy]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one with that problem Teryl! My son is a "Seth" - a very common name in romance.

[Stephanie]

Kim wrote: "Unless you have a weird Uncle Brody."

Do you?

[Julianna]

I got the idea for my son's name, Lucas ("Luke") from several different sources. One of them happened to be a romance novel, so I can't say that it bothers me all that much to have his name pop up in them. I also think that it's a great hero name too.

Now on the other hand, one of my favorite books quite unfortunately has a guy named Douglas (hubby's name) as the rapist villain, and that definitely bugged me. Otherwise it was great.;-)

[Miss Kim]

Stephanie wrote: "Kim wrote: "Unless you have a weird Uncle Brody."

Do you?"

No; but we always use the fabled Uncle Brody in stories.

[Miss Kim]

My son's name is Jake, and it doesn't bother me to have the hero named Jake. Wierd, I know.

[Stephanie]

I love the name Jake!

[ChloeLeeNH]

Gabriel or Sebastian. My son is Gavin so it will be weird if I read one with that name too LOL

[Miss Kim]

I like Gabriel.

[Stephanie]

Oh Gavin, as in Gavin Rossdale...

[Miss Kim]

Very good.

[Kayleigh]

I'm going with Sebastian too. *sighs* I love that name. I used it. And now just about every book I read has a Sebastian. Luckily, I'm not sick of it yet.

And the funny part is I went to high school with a guy named Sebastian. Even let him take me to the Homecoming dance; and he was SO not the sexy alpha hero type!

I also like Devon or Devlin, Blake, Lucas, Alexander.

And yes, East, Valentine Corbett! (*is so behind on posts!*)

[Kathrynn]

Ethan. Have we mentioned that one, yet? Recently read a short story that had a character named Ethan. :-)

[Eastofoz]

Yeah I know I did :) Worth the remention though :D

[Chasidy]

I love the names Anthony and Nicholas. Mostly becuase I fell in-love with Nicholas Eden and Anthony Malory

[Anne OK]

I like Roarke for a alpha male hero name!

[Pamela(AllHoney)]

I just noticed we don't have a folder for wimpy names :)

[Auntee]

Pamela wrote: "I just noticed we don't have a folder for wimpy names :)"

Do you have any?:)

[Pamela(AllHoney)]

Eugene
Ashley
Eldridge
Francis
Godfrey
Reginald
Wendall
Egbert
to name a few

[Auntee]

LOL! Excellent, Pamela! I'll have to agree with those.:)

[Eastofoz]

LOL Pamela --good list ;) I've only come across Godfrey (usually in medievals) and I think Ashley.

[Pamela(AllHoney)]

I went to http://www.historicalromancewriters.c... and found a few names really used in romance novels
Ashley, Francis and Reginald were in there LOL
also Ambrose
Freddy
Jocelyn
Latimer
Luther
Norton
Romeo
Rufus
Rudolf
Septimus
Sorry but these are names I would find hard not to laugh at during a hot love scene of " oh Ambrose, more! more!" or "Harder, Rufus, harder!" or "oh Romeo!"

[Eastofoz]

Jocelyn for a guy?????

Yeah the other names are certainly not much better 8-)

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I love old TV westerns & the names in them. :-D

Josh
Jason
Lucas
Nick
Jarrod
Steve

ETA: I thought the male equivalent was Josselin? Not much better, tho historically accurate, which I don't mind.

[zHaNe]

I like 'Craven' from Lisa Kleypas' character Derek Craven of Dreaming of You..*sigh*

[Cobalt_Cin]

Lachlan - Kresley Cole
Drake - Katie MacKalister
Cian MacKelter - Karen Marie Moning
Nicolae - Christine Feehan
Cam Rohan - Lisa Kleypas
Saint - Kathryn Smith
Morgan - Freda Warrington

[Angela]

How do you pronounce Cian? Am I the only one who sometimes has a hard time knowing how to pronounce some heroes' names? Can't think of any right this second, but sometimes....

[Pamela(AllHoney)]

Angela wrote: "How do you pronounce Cian? Am I the only one who sometimes has a hard time knowing how to pronounce some heroes' names? Can't think of any right this second, but sometimes...."

I don't know how to pronounce half of them either... I would think that Cian would be SEE-an but I don't know :)

[Eastofoz]

Those Scottish ones can be hard so I'm right there with you Angela! I think Cian sounds like "Kay-ron" --I could be totally off here though (lol!)

[Auntee]

According to Wikipedia:
In Irish mythology, Cian (Irish pronunciation: [key-in]

Another 'baby names' site has it pronounced KEE-an

Similar pronounciations there.

[Pamela(AllHoney)]

see I was totally wrong and I'm ok to admit it :)

[Auntee]

I would've said See-an too, Pamela!

[Pamela(AllHoney)]

I think I like See-an better than Kee-an, though :p

[Eastofoz]

Well so much for my attempt (lo!)

[Cobalt_Cin]

Ive always thought or said Cian like See-an too and it sounds better then Kee-an lol. Yeah some of those Scottish, Irish and Welsh names can be tricky ones. Some authors give you name pronounciations and I give them thumbs up for that. Alot of the fae names I still have no idea how to pronounce. I mean how do you say these:

Daoine Sidhe? apparently its said doon-ya shee.

Sidhe - I've been saying it how it looks - Sihe lol, but apparently its Shee.

Tuatha de Dannan - Again I've always said it almost how it looks , but its said tootha day danan.

Tylwyth Teg - Till-with Teeg

[Pamela(AllHoney)]

hmmm, names I'd be stumped on.

[Eastofoz]

Those are some brutal ones Cobalt_Cin!

[Cobalt_Cin]

That they are, must thank the Irish and the Scots for creating elusive language haha

[Julianna]

I adore Celtic names and hearing the language, but it would be frustrating to learn. It just isn't phonetic in the least.;-)

I recently read a Mary Balogh romance with a Welsh heroine named Sian (Sharn). Thankfully, she gave the pronunciation in the forward, but then the village she lived in was Cwmbran (Coom-bran). Shockingly, I actually came close on the pronunciation, but didn't have it quite right until Googling it. Luckily, the hero had the nice normal name of Alex.:-)