Need a baby name? I'd love to help.

A reader named Tamela wrote to me yesterday. She has one son named Hudson and is expecting her second son in a couple of months. She’d like some name suggestions for baby boy #2.

Hudson comes from a surname, so the first place I’d look is other surnames. Here are a few ideas:

(At first I was only going to omit names ending with -son. Then I decided to cut all names with n-endings, just to get a good range of sounds in there.)

Do you like any of the above with Hudson? What other names would you suggest to Tamela?

Update: Tamela has to get some adoption paperwork squared away, so she needs to select a name within the next few days.

Here are a few more facts:

• The baby’s surname will be a Spanish name that starts with an S. Think Silva, or Santos. (Neither of these is the actual surname.)
• Because the baby is coming from Russia, Tamela would really like something that’s “at least a little Russian.”
• Current favorites include Maxwell, Luis (nn Louie) and George (which is the name of Tamela’s father). Tamela also mentioned Matteo in this comment.

I really like both George and Maxwell with Hudson. I think either one would sound great as a first name.

Matteo doesn’t strike me as being a great match to Hudson, in terms of style. (Fits perfectly with the surname, though.)

I’m undecided on Luis. I don’t think it’s a bad match, but I don’t think it would fit as well with Hudson as Maxwell or George would.

As for Russian names, let’s see…Maksim or Maksimilian are both similar to Maxwell. Yuri is a version of George. (Also a cosmonaut!)

Or, perhaps one of these would work as a middle name with, say, George or Maxwell:

(I picked these because they’re very familiar-looking — almost like they’re just English names with a Russian twist.)

What other thoughts/ideas do you have for Tamela?