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Please help DH and me. We are 33wks and no movement on these 4 names for our first child:

James (we'd call him Jem while small)
Lewis
Rowan
Hewan (DH's grandfather who died recently. We love the name and it's DH's middle name)

Considerations:
-My first initial is J and I wonder if we should have an unique initial each?
-our surname ends in 'ton' so I wonder about the names ending in 'an' sounding a bit twee with the surname?
-is meaning important? James means "supplanter" which isn't that nice. Rowan means "red". Hewan doesn't have a meaning, and Lewis is "fame and war". None too inspiring!

Maybe I'll leave it til I've pushed him out and decide then!

Thanks in advance.

James , also quite like Rowan .

I like them all (sorry, no help!)

I wouldn't give too much thought to meaning, personally. My DD's name means 'golden princess' and my DS's name means 'crooked hill or nose' I have not named them after either of these things!

James

James, definitely the nicest. Hewan would be a good middle name but don't think I like it as a first name.

James Hewan is probably the best. Prefer Jamie as a nn.

I've never heard of Hewan before but I love it

James Hewan sounds good.

I have relatives who are both J and they have called each child a J name too. God knows how they decide who opens the post

Hewan is really cool. Then Rowan.

I like Hewan - nice, underused name and great associations for you!

How about Hewan James?

James, by a country mile.

Rowan is usually a girl's name, isn't it?

And no, I don't think meanings matter at all.

James Hewan.

Rowan, to me, is a girl's name.

james or rowan, I cant choose which - they're 2 of my fave names.
not lewis

My dd would have been James if she was a boy. Lovely name.

I only know boy Rowan's. Rowan Atkinson?

James Hewan

I don't think the duplicated initial matters that much when it's one per sex.

James (we'd call him Jem while small) << Really? That sounds very 'girly' Boring IMO

Lewis - Not too keen

Rowan - I know one and he's lovely, so probably my pick of your 4

Hewan (DH's grandfather who died recently. We love the name and it's DH's middle name) - nice reasons to use the name, but it's a bit unusual and I expect he'd spend a lot of his life saying 'No Hewan - not Ewan - or 'No Hew - not Hugh'... but again, not a really big deal.

I would avoid the same initial - but not the end of the world.

'an' and 'ton' are fine.

Meaning isn't important to me. I like the meaning of my name, but it wouldn't bother me if it was something like supplanter.

Push him out, spend a few days waiting for him to stop looking red & cross and then decide

Rowan James or Hewan James.

I don't like Lewis but I like Louis? (pronounced loo-EE)
James or Rowan or Ewan.

Love James, only like Rowan for a girl, don't like Lewis and Hewan is just odd.

Agree with CityMa
Rowan James or Hewan James

Rowan or Hewan.

James Hewan would be my choice. But I'd use Jim as a nn.

James (not Jem as nn though!)

I don't think the 'an' '-ton' thing sounds twee at all.

James is lovely. Rowan and Lewis are fine but not favourites of mine. Hewan I've never heard of before but like.

As Hewan might get misheard as Euan I'd probably go for James Hewan -ton. Hewan James sounds good though. In fact James flows well as a second name with all the others.